Children’s Clubs
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The aim of the Children’s Clubs
is to give a voice to excluded
children and promote their
rights. In partnership with
Save
the Children, we are promoting
30 Children’s Clubs, involving
more than 1,000 children. |
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Key Objectives: |
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Inclusion of groups that have
been excluded on the basis of
class, caste, religion, gender
or other reasons. |
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Bringing universal education to
those who have been
discriminated against or
prevented from going to school
for other reasons. |
Key Strategies: |
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Establishing a club where
children from all backgrounds
can gather together and discuss
various issues related to child
rights. |
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Creating a space where children
can play and study together,
increasing interaction between
children from various different
backgrounds. |
Key Activities: |
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Discussion of various
child-rights related problems
and issues, especially regarding
discriminations due to caste and
gender. |
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Raising awareness about rights
and plans for attaining justice,
such as RTE and UNCRC. Training
programmes are organised for the
children club members of all the
30 villages on Right to
Education Act-2010 and regarding
the scope for marginalized
children |
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Identification of excluded
children in the village
(exclusion mapping). |
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Organizing interventions (in
partnership with Child
Protection Committees) to
include such excluded children,
by counseling both the children
as well as their families. |
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Bringing dropouts back to school |
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Participating in the efforts to
end child labor and child
marriage |
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Amo Swora: the quarterly
newsletter produced by children
for children. See the latest
issue here from
Kandhamal and
Kamakhya nagar. |
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Child Protection Committees
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In partnership with Save the
Children, we have established
Child Protection Committees (CPCs)
in 150 villages in 5 districts
of Odisha. These committees are
designed to support the
Children’s Clubs by bringing
different members of the
community together to discuss
and promote equal rights for
every child. |
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Key Objectives: |
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Sensitization of the adult
community members about child
rights and prevalent
discriminatory attitudes and to
ensure protection of the
children in their village. |
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Sensitization of key decision
makers in the government as well
in non-governmental
organizations. |
Key Strategies: |
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Creating a committee where
adults from different sections
of the community can interact
with one other and discuss
issues related to protecting
children’s rights. |
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Sensitizing members of the
community and government
officials in order to facilitate
an environment that is conducive
to children’s equality, rights
and education. |
Key Activities: |
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Organising sensitization
sessions and informative
workshops in the village. These
could be
both general, for the entire
community, or specialized, for
officials, teachers or other
groups. |
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Training sessions held on the
concept of social exclusion and
children, laws and policies
related to child rights, United
Nations Convention on the Rights
of Children (UNCRC), Right to
Education act, and the role of
civil society in promoting and
protecting the rights of
children. |
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Conducting exclusion mapping in
the community in partnership
with the child clubs, to
identify children who are being
discriminated against or kept
out of school for some reason. |
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Conducting interventions in
conjunction with child clubs to
include excluded children in
mainstream education and
activities. |
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Promoting and supporting child
clubs and their activities. |
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Holding regular meetings on a
monthly basis to review the
situation and the state of the
intervention. |
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