Originally,
one observation – the child
is a person and « because of
his for want of physical and mental
maturity, needs a specifically protection,
in particular a juridical protection
before and after the birth »
(preambule of the UN-Convention).
The Convention’s rules are based
on the respect of the dignity of each
person, without looking for his race,
colour, sex, language, religion, opinions,
origin, fortune, birth or faculties,
and are applied for each child, everywhere
in the world.
When
a country sign the convention, he’s
engaged to do the best to respect
the rights of the convention, and
has to give periodical reports for
the attention of the Comity of the
rights of the child.
India
is a big country and if there are
improvements, the work to do to apply
the protection of the convention is
yet actually enormous. The
child is the adult of tomorrow, the
future teacher, the future boss, father
or mother, it’s fundamental
to make him aware of subjects like
violence, the environment, the right
to education …, and also to
make him aware of his responsabilities. |
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Therefore,
we
worked on different workshops with
the children of Thazhanguda.
For example, in groups of 5 children,
they drawed on different subjects
of the convention or they collected
scraps in the village and they made
a « man » in scraps on
a paper to understand how environment
is important (see pictures). |
Alongside
the workshops with the children, we
organised different trainings with
the teachers of Thazhanguda. At first
we presented the theory and analysed
with them the main problems they meet
all the days –
like the violence towards and by the
children, the children’s work
– and tried to find practical
solutions. We then asked them to work
on a practical guide, the purpose
was to implicate them personally,
but also to give them the bases to
work alone in the future. |
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