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Amidst growing concern of child abuse and several crimes against children, the Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights engaged in a programme to strengthen the children’s right to participation and empower them.

On Sunday, September 3, a workshop ‘Children’s Participation in Everyday Lives’ was organized at Kiran Niketan School Hall, Zuarinagar, for 65 children, in collaboration with Child Rights in Action and Kiran Niketan. The workshop forms one small but significant and novel idea of the Commission to promote and strengthen children’s right to participation.

GSCPCR Chairperson, Peter F Borges, said, ‘We need to shift children’s participation from mere tokenism to citizenship. Children have the right to express their views and to have those views considered, according to their age and understanding. Everyone, including public bodies and organisations that work with children, have a responsibility to respect that right. Children know what is best and what makes them happy. When they are involved, they can make a difference, for themselves and for their communities.’

Aditi Salkar, the workshop facilitator, expressed, ‘Children are citizens of today, and not tomorrow, which is why we need to educate them about their rights and the UNCRC charter. The session today was focused on the children realizing their dreams, how child rights can enable them to overcome the challenges they face, and importantly, what they can do to make their dreams and child rights a reality sooner rather than later.’

The workshop was facilitated in a participatory manner by Aditi Salkar, a licensed psychotherapist; an NLP trainer and an advanced REBT practitioner, currently, working for Child Rights in Action (CRIA) as the Program and Scientific Director.

Sr. Anny Fernandes, Sr. Jeryssa Pereira of Kiran Niketan and Prifa Xavier, Santosh Badgari and Rheya Fernandes contributed to the success of the workshop

Sonakshi Datta
Sonakshi Datta
Journalist who wants to cover the truth which others look the other way from.

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