School Outreach: Old Kampala P. School
Friday 5 June, 2009
Joy for Children Uganda, on Friday June 5, 2009, visited Old Kampala Primary Schools to raise awareness among the children on preventing violence against them. Hundreds of children sat attentively listening to the information being given while others were reading charts hang on the walls. Children concurred with the presenters that violence against children is a daily reality facing them. They also shared their experience of violence against children.
Violence against children in Uganda has reached unbearable level and still increasing. It undermines the full spectrum of health, education and development goals. It results in physical injury, emotional trauma, sexual exploitation poor educational outcomes and economic hardships for children. The negative consequences of the violence is it affects 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. Despite all this, violence against children is a daily reality of many children in Uganda today.
The innocence of children, powerlessness and lack of information puts many children at risk of being abused. The increasing numbers of child sacrifice, defilement, child labor, and corporal punishment among other forms of violations requires children to be aware of their rights and how they can protect them. Our school outreach program creates an infrastructure for dissenting opinion to be aired, views to be exchanged, values to be discussed and new ways of behaving to be explored.
Joy for Children Uganda, on Friday June 5, 2009, visited Old Kampala Primary Schools to raise awareness among the children on preventing violence against them. Hundreds of children sat attentively listening to the information being given while others were reading charts hang on the walls. Children concurred with the presenters that violence against children is a daily reality facing them. They also shared their experience of violence against children.
Violence against children in Uganda has reached unbearable level and still increasing. It undermines the full spectrum of health, education and development goals. It results in physical injury, emotional trauma, sexual exploitation poor educational outcomes and economic hardships for children. The negative consequences of the violence is it affects 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. Despite all this, violence against children is a daily reality of many children in Uganda today.
The innocence of children, powerlessness and lack of information puts many children at risk of being abused. The increasing numbers of child sacrifice, defilement, child labor, and corporal punishment among other forms of violations requires children to be aware of their rights and how they can protect them. Our school outreach program creates an infrastructure for dissenting opinion to be aired, views to be exchanged, values to be discussed and new ways of behaving to be explored.
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