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Child Protection Communication - Liberia

Country

Liberia

Region

Global, Africa

Programme Summary

Child Protection Communication is a project designed to communicate to the reading public on the development and protection of children in Liberia. The project records and reports on issues on child welfare through newsletter publications, radio programs and video documentaries. This is a project by the Solidarity Movement child welfare NGO, which came into being as a result of contemporary social problems created by the war in Liberia.

Communication Strategies

The problems that this project intends to address are child labor, juvenile delinquency, child prostitution and HIV/AIDS. The organizers state that parents and children need to be adequately informed about the risks or hazards associated with these problems. They work to accomplish this through communications. This project brings three methods of communication. These include a monthly newsletter, weekly radio program and television documentary.


Children will write accounts of their experiences. Documentaries of children in difficult situations will be made and televised in and outside of Liberia. A weekly radio programme will discuss the plight of the children.

Development Issues

Education, Communication

Key Points

The organisers expect the project to achieve the following objectives:

  1. To circulate information about the importance of child development.
  2. To provide methods of child welfare and child rights advocacy at family, community and town levels.
  3. To disseminate information on the dangers of child prostitution and HIV/AIDS.
  4. To educate society on the importance and methods of child safety.
  5. To reduce wayward child behavior.
  6. To develop documentaries for teaching basic tenets conventionally accepted
  7. To provide means of assisting children in Liberia.

The project carries activities like:

  1. Civic education through radio and print media activities.
  2. Publication of newsletter.
  3. Conducting a radio programme.
  4. Developing television documentaries.

Partners

Child welfare organisations in collaboration with the United Nations welfare agency UNICEF, United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), International Association of Educators for World Peace, Liberia Chapter, European Network for Street Children worldwide (ENSCW), Belgium, The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT), Child Rights Information Network (CRIN), Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAID) and Sizanani, South Africa.

Partners

UNICEF

Contact

Julius Toga or Thompson Togbah
The Solidarity Movement, Inc.
P.O. Box 4356
Monrovia, Liberia
Telephone: (231) 227018
Fax: (231) 226426
solidaritym@yahoo.com

Source

E-mail sent to The Communication Initiative from the Solidarity Movement, January 18 2003.


Placed on the Communication Initiative site August 06 2003
Last Updated August 07 2003

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