BSS, Rajshahi :
Responsive and sensible social and political initiatives are crucial means for protecting rights of children particularly the slum-dwelling and underprivileged ones towards transforming them into worthy citizens.
Protecting the children from all sorts of violation, repression and deprivation is needed for building a healthy and knowledge-based future generation.
The views were expressed at a roundtable meeting titled “Child Rights and Protection”. Leaders of influence and development activists in the function called for ensuring a friendly atmosphere for the disadvantaged children terming those as an asset of the nation.
Caritas Rajshahi hosted the meeting at its conference hall on Tuesday giving an overview of its three-year project styled ‘Livelihood Improvement through
Formation and Education’ which is being implemented in some slum areas in Rajshahi city.
The meeting was told that the project intends to protect and improve life of more than 800 rootless and slum dwelling children through providing them with diversified services like education, health and counseling.
Sukleaus George Costa, Regional Director of Caritas Rajshahi, who chaired and moderated the participatory discussion, said: “Our effort is not sufficient but more other works need to be done for improving and developing life of the underprivileged children”.
He said advocacy lobbying among slum dwellers is very effective for enhancing networking skills and welfare of the underprivileged children.
District Primary Education Officer Abdus Salam and Religious leader Father William Mormu addressed the meeting as chief and special guests respectively while Instructor of Primary Teachers Institute Ahmed Rafi Raihan presented a keynote paper on the issue.
Professor Shirin Akter from Teachers Training College and its retired Principal Prof Abdus Samad Mondal, Editor of Daily Sonar Desh Akbarul Hassan Millat, religious leader Father Paul Gomes and Advocate Shamina Begum spokeon the occasion as panel discussants.
Responsive and sensible social and political initiatives are crucial means for protecting rights of children particularly the slum-dwelling and underprivileged ones towards transforming them into worthy citizens.
Protecting the children from all sorts of violation, repression and deprivation is needed for building a healthy and knowledge-based future generation.
The views were expressed at a roundtable meeting titled “Child Rights and Protection”. Leaders of influence and development activists in the function called for ensuring a friendly atmosphere for the disadvantaged children terming those as an asset of the nation.
Caritas Rajshahi hosted the meeting at its conference hall on Tuesday giving an overview of its three-year project styled ‘Livelihood Improvement through
Formation and Education’ which is being implemented in some slum areas in Rajshahi city.
The meeting was told that the project intends to protect and improve life of more than 800 rootless and slum dwelling children through providing them with diversified services like education, health and counseling.
Sukleaus George Costa, Regional Director of Caritas Rajshahi, who chaired and moderated the participatory discussion, said: “Our effort is not sufficient but more other works need to be done for improving and developing life of the underprivileged children”.
He said advocacy lobbying among slum dwellers is very effective for enhancing networking skills and welfare of the underprivileged children.
District Primary Education Officer Abdus Salam and Religious leader Father William Mormu addressed the meeting as chief and special guests respectively while Instructor of Primary Teachers Institute Ahmed Rafi Raihan presented a keynote paper on the issue.
Professor Shirin Akter from Teachers Training College and its retired Principal Prof Abdus Samad Mondal, Editor of Daily Sonar Desh Akbarul Hassan Millat, religious leader Father Paul Gomes and Advocate Shamina Begum spokeon the occasion as panel discussants.
