In order to create awareness regarding various child issues and rights, Childline Ranchi initiated one week programme to create awareness about children issues and toll free number 1098. Various cultural programmes were organised in the state capital to create awareness among the denizens. As many as 100 children who have been rescued and are under care and protection of various social groups participated in the event.
Every year, Childline celebrates friendship week. Child line 1098 launched Childline Se Dosti Week-2015, a campaign to make public a stakeholder in childline, on November 14. Childline is a project of Ministry of Women and Child development. Series of various programmes were organised and children participated with full zeal and enthusiasm in the one week long events. The one week event concluded on Friday.
“Our basic goal is to create awareness regarding various child issues and to make people aware about Child line 1098. The problem is that people are not aware about various rights of children. These kinds of programmes in some or the other way create awareness about various aspects of child rights,” said State co-ordinator of Childline, Sujit Goswami.
“Our aim of the campaign is to capture the attention of those who are unaware of 1098 services,” Goswami added.
The weeklong event was initiated on November 14 from Premashay, an NGO. On the first day of child line friendship week various social organizations took out mass rally on various child issues like child labour, domestic workers and others in the state capital.
Childline in Jharkhand is presently functioning in only six districts, which include Chaibasa, Ranchi, Jamtara, Deoghar, Gumla and Dhanbad. This time the theme of the programme focused on eradication of Child labour.
In another effort to create awareness, kids tied friendship bands to all the police personnel of Sukhdev Nagar police station and Pandra OP on November 18. On the concluding day, few children tied friendship bands to people and travelled to lohardaga.
Director of Child line, Father Chetan was also present at the Ranchi railway station with children on the last day of the event and distributed Information, education and communication (IEC) kits among children.