Young Indians (YI) Raipur Chapter organised a Session on 'Project Masoom' – a Campaign against child sexual abuse at Tilak Bharati School in the city.
The main objective of 'Project Masoom' is to create awareness on child sexual abuse and also about the various forms of abuse which children go under like physical, mental & visua, a Young Indians (YI) Raipur Chapter press release informed.
Child sexual abuse can have many devastating effects on children. Their traumatic experience gives them a distorted sense of values and a negative outlook towards people and life in general. They may have low self esteem, feel inadequate and mistrust others.
These children are highly vulnerable to substance abuse, physical violence, STD’s, HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies, it stated.
Sheen Agrawal, Chair Project Masoom said : “As we are aware, Child Sexual Abuse is a fast growing issue where our children are not aware of how to protect themselves from such dangers.” This is where Young Indians Raipur Chapter ensures by creating an awareness amongst the children about Child Sexual Abuse and how they can be protective enough to protect themselves, Agrawal said.
Abhishek Agrawal, Chair Young Indians Raipur Chapter said that with awareness and prevention as top priorities, Young Indians Raipur Chapter under the vertical “Project Masoom” is putting its continuous efforts to cover more and more number of children by educating them about the truth of Child Sexual Abuse and the ill effects which it has on children and how they can be strong enough to come up and tell people what they went through. The goal is to take the Masoom film to children in classes 2nd to 6th in schools across Raipur, he said.