Center for Girls works in twenty villages with nine schools and 35 student leaders to promote and implement child rights activities in the schools. These 35 child leaders worked with their teachers to create projects about children’s rights and to host a large-scale child protection campaign in the nine schools. The projects featured a mobile library, an exhibit on Internet safety, games educating about children’s rights, and other booths informing about violence against children and protection methods. 300 children and 50 adults participated in the campaign and gained awareness, knowledge, and skills in how to recognize, respond to, and prevent violence against children. The 35 student leaders act as watchdogs to uphold children’s rights for their friends and peers. If they see or hear about a situation of abuse or violence against a child, they now have the means to rectify it by alerting the teachers, all of whom are now a part of the Center for Girls’ network, and thus have access to the necessary aid and resources.
School administrators and 18 teachers from 9 target schools participated in meetings and workshops to develop a child protection-centered curriculum for 300 students in grades 4-6. The teachers and administration attended a workshop and received training in child protection and child rights. They gained knowledge about how to recognize and respond to children in their classroom who needed help. This empowers teachers and administration to implement child protection measures in the classroom.
Center for Girls is able to protect the children in the community. Moreover the Center has also provided counseling to both children and parents in need, and transferred cases to different agencies for further physical and psychological purposes. The Center continues to run awareness raising activities in the community and to provide the community with information and techniques on how to act regarding child abuse cases. The community members were encouraged to report cases to the Center if they happened.