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Children's Rights Club
Since CEWLA always aims to respond to the needs of the community and prioritizes helping local people, it has designed a program for the children of Boulaq during their summer vacation. The program, called the Children's Rights Club, implemented new and already existing curricula to introduce children to the concepts of the Children's Rights Convention, using the training manual "Life's Morals" issued by the National Center for Children's Education.
The Club's general goals:
Enable children to utilize the resources around them in the future and to play a role in their community's development. Also encourage them to envision and work for a better reality.
Specific goals:
1) Teach the children the basics of the Children's Rights Convention.
2) Discover the talents and abilities of the children and try to develop them.
3) Emphasize good morals and values among the children.
4) Develop the children's self confidence .
5) Prepare them to become leaders.
6) Further concepts of tolerance among the children .
7) Encourage them to participate in recreational activities.
8) Create a critical view of the surrounding society and a will to change reality.
9) Communicate the children's thoughts, wishes and feelings to their parents.
10) Make them aware that they have duties in the future as well as rights.
11) Emphasize the values of belonging to their country and to the world.
Carrying out the project:
Establishment of a club in Boulaq to be attended by the children during their summer vacation.
Results:
1) Children started to be aware and ask "why?" before doing something their parents asked them to do.
2) The gap between the women's and men's role in the Egyptian society has been filled .
3) Children let their energy out in the recreational activities.
4) Many talents have been discovered and furthered such as drawing, acting, writing and sports.
5) Children absorbed new concepts such as no discrimination between men and women and the importance of independence.
Funded by : NOVIB
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