A Series of Awareness Programs in Protecting Children in Schools

Many parents complain about the dangers of violence and the lack of protection for their children while they go and return from school and even In the neighborhood, they lack the knowledge and skill to provide their children with the possible means of protection to avoid this problem.

Parents, in coordination with the educational councils, school administrations and the Ministry of Education, sought the assistance of organizations working in the field of child care to teach them and their children the means of protecting their children in schools and at home. The Voluntary Reyada Center for Capacity Building, Studies and Consultations, in cooperation with the International Child Care Organization, and the Ministry of Education, took the lead to play a prominent role in contributing to raising awareness to ensure protection for children in schools. Reyada center designed an integrated program to protect children in schools called “a series of awareness programs in protecting children in schools.” Which is an integrated program that aims at establishing the concept of rights in children , their peers and the community and acquainting them with the means of protection from the different types of violence phenomena whether in the school environment or the neighborhood, which is part of Reyada voluntary center’s methodology in consolidating rights and strengthening the means to protect children in schools from the manifestations of physical, sexual and verbal violence. It contained the following: “awareness lectures, theater, cultural activities and a variety of lyrical paragraphs Jokes, poems, useful information Competitions and prize distribution for male and female students” with the aim of multiple means of delivering the implicit message.

The purpose of the series of enlightenment programs on protecting children at schools is enlightening children on the types and forms of violence giving them effective means and methods for protection from violence

  • Strengthening the concept of rights and protection for children.
  • Introducing the center and its goals – Introducing the Child Law of the year 2010.
  • Educating mothers and fathers, especially, on how to intervene and early detection of the behaviors that appear on their children and how to befriends with their children since childhood.
  • Coordination of joint roles between the center and the parents’ councils and local committees, whereby the parents and educational councils contributed in full coordination with the voluntary Reyada center in the implementation of the integrated program in protecting children in schools whereby the center held From 2017 to 2018, 200 awareness lectures, 300 educational theaters, 100 competitions, and 200 miscellaneous items in Khartoum State, Blue Nile State, West, Central, South and North Darfur states. The program targeted 20 localities in the aforementioned states, 160 residential neighborhoods, 160 schools, girls’ schools 80 schools, boys 50 schools 30 co-education schools .
  • The program also targeted 11,500 students in the basic and secondary levels, and some Quran memorization Khalwas and its sciences the number of girls 6,500. The number of boys out of the total beneficiaries is 5,000, and the number of beneficiaries of both genders from the local community is 2,500, women are 1,500, and men are 1,000 from the councils of parents and guardians of children 4500 total beneficiaries from a series of awareness programs in protecting children in schools is 18500 direct beneficiaries 129500 indirect beneficiaries.