2. THE CAMPAIGN AND MOBILIZING OF VOLUNTEERS
The month long 30campaign2008 on
“I am invisible” reached out to more than 8000 people by means of visiting more than 30 Churches / NGOs and school institutions in Dimapur.
A memorandum signed by people who share solidarity with such suffering children was submitted to the Government. As per the campaign objectives more than 30 volunteers were raised from church and schools. And these volunteers actively took part in the poster campaign on Child Trafficking and on International Day against Child Labor.
3. ORIENTATION FOR VOLUNTEERS ON 30CAMPAIGN 2008
On June 10, 2008 at CEC School, Grace Colony, Dimapur, 50 volunteers participated in the orientation of volunteers for 30campaign 2008.
The speakers for the orientation were Mr. Subonenba Longkumer, Project Director, CECS, Mr. Jongpongchiten, Director, Impact Counselling Centre, Mr. Samuel Therieh, Manager, World Vision
Topics discussed on the programme were - 1. “What make children at risk?”
2. “International and National issues on child labor and street children”.
3. “Child labor and street children and trafficked child in Nagaland”.
Between sessions documentaries on child labor were shown to the volunteers.
4. MOBILISING OF CHILDREN AND POSTER CAMPAIGN
On 11th June 2008 trained volunteers and Staffs of CECs were send out to more than 15 colonies/ wards in Dimapur where many child labor were located. All together 29 volunteers actively participated in poster campaign on child trafficking and interacted with 265 child labor and invited all of them to participate in the International Child labor day on 12th June 2008.
The event was mark with lots of discussion and interaction among the employer, the child workers and the volunteers. The main aim was to educate the owners that the child labors should be send to school and at the same time also allow them to work for their basic survival as we do not have the right to deprive the children of their livelihood and the means to meet their every need.
5. INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOR day observed on 12 June 2008
This event organized for the very first time in the entire state on June 12, 2008 at Town Hall, Dimapur. The event was attended by over 460 street children, volunteers, representative of various organizations in and around Dimapur, and Govt. Departments.
On behalf of over 460 street children, MoU to Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur District for action in Implementing National Child Labor Project (NCLP) and Proactive Policy towards Eliminating Child labor in Nagaland.
Mr. Yanger Aier, Project Officer, Labor Department, Govt. of Nagaland also presented speech from their department.
Maongwati Aier, Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur was the Chief Guest of the event.
6. SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
From time and again skill development training are taught to the students in order to develop their skills. Different shape bowels were made from old newspaper book marks and creative designs of paper bags. The session was attended by 15 selected students.
7. COMPUTER EDUCATION
With the availability of 4 computer sets donated by Ranghaphar Military civil action around 50 children are receiving basic computer education. The classes are conducted every morning and evening before and after normal classes are over. We believe that this components will help children to achieve and obtain certain level of education in Information Technology. All the students are very excited and with lots of enthusiasm they attend every session.
8. STREET SHOW CAMPAIGN ON FREE THE CHILDREN FOR EDUCATION
One of the basic rights of the children is to have education. but this right does not exist or is not active for children who are working in hotels, garages, dhabas and shops and in people’s house. Such children only dream of having and living a better life in future and everyday they look for such an answer that can change their lives but no one seems to care for their needs. However the hour has come to acknowledge the rights of every child and to bridge their broken dreams and visions with the message of their rights to free Education and other development program which has been deprived to them and missing for so long. Therefore to sensitized more awareness for the need of Education to all children specially child labour CECS conducted street plays for about a month in 10 major places in Dimapur. A very vigorous street show was carried out and also with the cooperation from local newspapers we were able to reach out to more people.
CECs students actively participated in the street play show through Drama, speech, action songs and sharing of their testimonies.
9. TEACHERS TRAINING
Four Higher Secondary school and one school were selected from Dimapur for teachers training on 17th–19th November on “Value Based Education” organized by CANA (Christian AIDS/HIV National Alliance), Delhi. The programme was a great success and a module was introduced which will be implemented in these schools from 2009.
10. DAY CARE CENTRE & NIGHT SHELTER
We manage a Day Care centre which emphasizes on giving education to street children and time is set apart for them for recreation and other activities. This Centre is a continuation programme of Night Shelter project which was started with the seed money donated by CANA (Christian AIDS/HIV National Alliance) in the October 2007. The centre has been running without any sponsorship for some time but with the help from Grace Kim QAO Singapore, was interested in the project and she is sponsoring the project from the month of November 2009. In the day time street children comes to study and play and in the night time street children without home comes to sleep in the centre. There are 40 children enrolled in the Day Care Centre and 4 children are enrolled in the night shelter. The street children come to the night shelter to sleep. They are given nutritional meals and first aids are always provided.
11. SURVEY
It is important to know how many children are out of school inorder for us to take necessary action and also to develop our educational system. CECs conducted survey in the locality during the month of December. We were really surprised to know that there are still 222 out of school children in our small locality.
12. AWARENESS PROGRAMME
Since there were still so many drop outs and never enrolled children in the locality the school children with the teachers went around the locality raising awareness on the need to have education. We encouraged the parents to send the children to schools and we emphasize on the importance of educating the children so that they might have a better future.
13. CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR STREET CHILDREN AND CHILD LABOURS IN DIMAPUR
With a view to make a difference this Christmas CECS came up with the idea to distribute gifts to the street children and child labors and to share the message of Christ with them. The gifts were donated by different churches and individuals. On December 19 the small gifts were distributed to the street children and child labors.
14. SUCCESS STORY
We were able to reach out to so many people in the year 2008 through campaigns, street shows, poster campaign, awareness programme. We are proud of the accomplishment that we have made in reaching out to a huge mass of people. We believe that many problems in our society exist because of the ignorance of the people and so if we are to handle the problems we first need to educate the people on the different issue.
We had 300 children studying in the centre the academic year (2007-2008).. We conducted the final exam in the end part of November. With great anticipation we waited for the results and all together out of 300 students 282 children got through the exam. And the first batch of Class VIII appeared their board exam and all of them got through the exam.
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