Prevent Violence Against Children

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Violence against children (VAC) undermines the full spectrum of health, education and development goals. It results in physical injury, emotional trauma, sexual exploitation poor educational outcomes and economic hardship for children. The negative consequences of the violence affect current realities of children as well as their potential. Above all, the violence is a blatant injustice and a gross violation of children’s rights.



What is becoming clear is that a proactive and catalyzing community based work is needed to win hearts and minds of individuals and respond to concerns of a wide range of children. The nature of this engagement will have to be diverse, participatory and based on persuading individuals that just relationships with children is in everyone’s interest.

At Joy for Children-Uganda, we do all that we can to protect children from violence. We organise walk in major towns to highlight the plight of children, we do community events packed with drama, film show and open discussion, including radio programs. We visits schools teaching educating childrena and teachers on the rights of children, we visit churches, mosques and government departments to ask them to include preventing against childrenin their programs, we write letters to the local media, and run crafted short messages on local FM stations.

We have done all this with the support of people like you. We also ask you to day, to give the best you have to prevent violence against children. We need your support now to make it possible to continue raising awareness on the rights of children and preventing violence.

On June 16, we will be commemorating the day of Africa Child, last year we held a number of activities on this day; we had a radio talk, a walk on streets of Kampala, ran messages on local fm stations. This year we want to do the same and more we need your help, we need financial support to organise all the events and pay for services. Decide to partner with us today and make a difference in the lives on many children.

Please Visit this link for pictures of last year's event:
http://joyforchildren.org/charitywalk/index.htm

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