Children
and youth living in the remote rural areas across northern region of Bangladesh
still have the tendency of dropping out of formal Education process because of
poverty, child labour, early marriage, having no facilities of extra-curricular
activities at school, lack of supplementary books, unawareness of parents,
inactive School Management Committee (SMC) and so on. Moreover, children and
youth hardly have opportunity in decision making process at family, school of
social level, especially about the affairs relevant to child rights. On the
other hand, children lack necessary information regarding child rights,
personal health and hygiene, HIV/AIDS etc. Many of them are at the risk of drug
addiction and addiction to vulgar video on cell-phone screen. Even youth of poor families nowadays can
avail cell phone for cheap rate. In spite of several progress in education
of Bangladesh, the curriculum is still requires reformation to provide better
help to children empowerment.
A NGO Initiatives of Empowering Children
and Youth
To
address the above mentioned major problems A NGO has planned following actions
aiming at empowering them to improve fulfillment of their basic rights:
· Involving children in Community Monitoring Forum
for their participation in developing quality of primary education
· Children will be given responsibility of
managing school library
· Parents, members of SMC, representatives of
community, teachers and selected children will visit best education institute/s
and utilize the learning in developing the quality of their own school/s
· Children of school and youth groups under social
organizations (CBOs) will get necessary supports of games and sports and
cultural activities
· Youth groups’ training/orientation on preventing
early marriage, child labour, drug addiction etc
·
Rural cinema show and popular theater show for
mass awareness about child rights
· Sharing workshop on child rights convention,
national policy and A NGO policy with children, parents and all respective duty
bearers
·
Radio programme through A NGO established
Community Radio
· Public Hearing session to make duty bearers and
community sensitized and responsivechild rights
Number of Children and Youth Targeted
The
units of Social Organization, Education and Women Rights will implement the
plan.
Social
Organization will cover 1050 youth.
Education
will cover 3000 children aged 6 to 12.
Women
Rights will cover 1800 youth of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education
Institutes.
Beyond
the direct target of children and youth, the action will include the parents,
teachers, religious leaders, Management Committee of educational institutes and
representatives of communities and government officials.