Child clubs raising awareness in Morang

Pramila, 18, is an active member of Prajatantra Bal Club, which is involved in number of awareness raising activities such as organising street dramas about issues like child marriage and child labour.

WVI Nepal’s Morang Child Protection Project organised a training in Bhaudaha Village Development Committee for girls and women to help them understand child protection issues in their communities so that vulnerable children are better protected. Pramila, who studies in the eleventh grade and attended the training with members of a mother’s group says ‘I learned about the concept of child rights and different child protection issues in my community. These trainings must be organised with other mothers’ groups to disseminate child protection messages so that rights of the children can promoted in communities.’

The WVI Nepal Country Strategy has identified child protection as a major cross-cutting theme. The main objective of the child protection strategy is to promote systems and practices that contribute to children being better protected. It also ensures that WVIN staff, and the staff of NGO partners, have the ability to manage child protection issues.