The youngsters of the city have stood up for the rights of the children. Youth for Children camp inspires young people to take up issues of children. The camp was all about exploring and knowing the facts about crimes against children.
About 35 young people participated in a 3 day intensive youth camp which was organized by ANSH Happiness Society and UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh at Pachmari. The camp began from Monday and concluded here on Wednesday wherein the youngsters from different walks of life were able to explore different topics related to children and also had an intensive interacting with each other.
Young people were oriented on child rights, discussed the challenges for children, issues which impact them in activity based sessions which were taken by Anil Gulati, Communication Specialist, UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh, Mohsin Khan, co-founder ANSH, and Sandeep Mehto, of Bharat Calling.
They also learned about concept of why first thousand days are important in life of the child and session on its importance which was taken by Puspha Awasthy, Nutrition officer, UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh. later on they worked on group activity and shared the ways they will like to work for children particularly on issues like first thousand days, new born care and child rights. Many of young people said they will like to use social media as platform to spread knowledge and advocate for importance of first thousand days. The group will be called as youth4children, which will use #youth4Children and also engage in pushing the agenda of child rights.