Dimapur, Sep. 25 (EMN): With an objective to instill confidence, Child Friendly Dimapur, AIDA, conducted one-day training for child rights club leaders on September 24 at AIDA conference hall.
According to an update, the programme was attended by 33 child rights club leaders from Signal Angami, Kacharigaon, Kirha, GHSS Singrijan, Selouphe and Neisatou colony.
The programme comprised of technical sessions, audio visual presentations and group activities basing on the roles and responsibilities of child rights club leaders, roles and responsibilities of a leader, leadership skills, United Nation Convention for the Rights of the Child – four cardinal rights and violence against children.
During the input sessions, the leaders were educated on the rights of the child focusing mainly on four cardinal rights of the child- inclusiveness for all without any discrimination, considering best interest of the child in all action undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, court of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, maximise the survival and development of all its children – providing the optimal conditions for childhood, for the child’s life, it stated.
Adding to their learning, the leaders were also trained on the skills needed to be an effective leader by inculcating inclusiveness, diligently following the roles and responsibilities of a leader, violence against children.
Stressing on the rights of the children, the facilitator elaborated on the four cardinal rights towards realising the dream of Child Friendly Dimapur: to make Dimapur a child friendly city by enhancing active participation of the children in the city, ensuring freedom to express their views on “all matters affecting them” and making sure that their views are taken seriously – at home within their families, in the schools and in their communities as active, informed participants, it stated.
Further, the facilitators educated the leaders on violence against children, types of violence faced by the children at home, schools and community (psychological violence, physical violence and sexual violence) which causes depression, anxiety to the children even in their early age.