In all, 521 children have participated in the two-day awareness programme on gender sensitization hosted by Jagriti All India Women's Conference based in Haridwar in the premises of Delhi Public School, Ranipur on Wednesday. The programme was inaugurated on Tuesday.
Aged between ten and twelve years, these children from Kangri Adarsh Bal Vidya Mandir, Rajkiya Prathmik Vidyalaya, No 33 BHEl Sector 3 and DPS Ranipur came to learn a lot about what child abuse stands for in course of the programme. They were sensitized over the different kinds of touches indicating different intentions of the persons who touch them. They were also encouraged to share their problems with parents and others.
The patron of Jagriti All India Women's Conference Haridwar, Manjula Bhagat, said, “The students were taught about different kinds of touches like good touch, bad touch and secret touch. A short film was also shown to give some information about the subject of child abuse. A brief question answer session was held too during the programme.”
The resource person, Shikha Tomar said that the children must be encouraged to share their problems with their parents. “Besides, they must be enabled to stop anyone out to abuse them,” she said.
The vice president of JAIWC Uma Pandey said, “This is just the beginning for the awareness programme. I am glad we have been able to add a village school in this project. Our purpose is to bring the students into the mainstream and inculcate confidence in them to help them look at life in the face.”On the second day of the programme organized for class 7 and 8 students, issues related to foeticide and infanticide were explained to the students. The students of Kangri village school were shown the working of the waste paper recycling plant run by DPS students in the campus.
The programme ended with some stationary items, books and snacks being distributed among the children.