CLUB LEADERS AND FACILITATORS TRAINER ON CHILD RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES -RISE -Ghana.

CLUB LEADERS AND FACILITATORS TRAINER ON CHILD RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES -RISE -Ghana.

Story filed by: Major Apibire

18-09-22 UER: Club leaders and facilitators trained on child rights and responsibilities-Rise-Ghana

Rise-Ghana, a non-profit organization under its ENOUGH Project  which are implemented in Ghana,Liberia and Mali with funding from the European union and Oxfam and Wildalf in Ghana has organized a two-day training workshop for leaders of its HE -FOR-SHE, schools club leaders drawn from three Districts in the Upper East Region.

The participating districts were; Pusiga, Kasena Nankana West, and Kasena Nankana Municipality, in the Upper East Region of Ghana.

The workshop aims at equipping the young club leaders with knowledge on assertiveness, public speaking, leadership, child rights and responsibilities, reproductive health, and how to protect our gear towards preparing them for leadership positions in the future

The Head of programs at Rise-Ghana, Madam Jaw-Harutu Amadu reiterate the need for parents to open up with their wards. This according to her, will enable children to feel at ease in discussing issues affecting them to their parents for redress.

She added that, forty club leaders, made up of 10 boys and 30 girls, drawn from 11 schools in three districts of the region with 11 facilitators. She stated that, at the end of the training, these club leaders will in turn lecture their colleagues in school and at home concerning their rights and responsibilities as children.

Madam Amadu further stated that they have also trained literacy volunteers in the communities who are supposed to move around and share information about sexual and Gender-based violence.

According to her, the club leaders are drawn from hard-to-reach communities with the ultimate goal of these pupils becoming ambassadors in their localities for change.

As part of the project, Chiefs, Queen mothers, and the media have been engaged in protecting our communities and survivors of gender-based violence to get justice and also ending the violence that women and children go through in our communities.

The Regional Director of the Department of Children, Madam Georgina Aberese-Ako, who took participants through child rights and responsibilities, charged children with matters of concern to know the time their parents are in good mood in order for them to channel issues affecting them before them. She added it is crucial children adhere to their roles at home and in school.