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The Child-to-Child (CtC) programme started in 1998. All CtC activities are organised by the Health Promotion staff in GOAL’s three field sites of Abyei (central Sudan), Kutum (north Darfur) and Kassala (east Sudan), with technical support by the Health Promotion team in Khartoum. While activities in the past used to take place in both schools and in the community, the current GOAL North Sudan CtC strategy focuses only on out-of-school children. Due to the civil unrest in the Abyei area in May 2008, CtC activities were suspended, but it is anticipated that GOAL will re-instate the programme in 2009. The number of children currently participating and/or directly benefiting from the CtC activities are; Kassala = 210 children (130 girls and 80 boys) and Kutum = 122 children (87 girls and 35 boys). Funding sources include DFID, UNDP, Irish AID and USAID. Read more
Note 1
Child to Child Hygiene Promotion
Oxfam's Public Health Promotion Work, September 2004
Kalma camp is filled with thousands of young children. Oxfam has taught nearly 50 children here about good hygiene. As part of the Child-to-Child training programme, each of them will now teach what they’ve learned to another six children.
Today 15 children are given pictures depicting different situations that need proper hygiene, including washing your hands after going to the toilet and how to store water and food. They colour in the pictures with crayons and then each takes turns presenting what is in their picture.
Hawa is 12 years and has just completed her training with Oxfam. “Today I learnt how to clean up. The best thing I learnt was how to use the latrines: you have to lift the latrine lid up with your foot and not touch it with your fingers. I also learnt that it’s important to brush the flies away and to clean your hands, as well as to keep the space around your shelter clean and tidy.”
Muhammad is 15 years old: “Today we learnt how to use the latrines properly and about the camp clean-up campaign, as well as how to cover up food so it doesn’t get dirty. You need to clean up areas outside where you live and to use soap to wash your hands. It is best to keep the latrines clean. I’m going to tell my friends not to defecate outside and that every boy should wear flip-flops and wash his hands.
“It’s important to do this because flies carry disease,” Muhammad continues. “If you have dirty hands you get diseases from the germs. Now I’m going to teach the other children.” Oxfam website
… and many other examples; search Oxfam Child-to-Child.
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UNICEF Child to Child activities in Darfur ( July 2004 )
Hygiene Education has started as a Child-to-Child activity and in Abu Shuk camp 50 children were trained in hygiene education practices. Each of the children will now train 100 other children. This initiative will be replicated in other locations. Unicef website
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Mine Awareness
The following projects are active in mine risk prevention using Child-to-Child techniques:
UNICEF (Through MAG)
In 2000 it was reported
“In government of Sudan-controlled areas, mine awareness programs are the responsibility of the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC). Organizations in the Sudan Campaign to Ban Landmines are also active in mine awareness activities. These include the Sudanese Red Crescent Society and those grouped under the umbrella of the government-run agency, the Sudan Council of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA). The government of Sudan has also established the Disaster Management and Refugee Studies Institute (DIMARSI) to train trainers on mine awareness in conflict zones in Sudan.
A pilot project has been funded by Rädda Barnen (Sweden), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), OXFAM, and UNICEF aimed at training trainers in Child-to-Child mine awareness education in the east of Kassala. With total funding of US$75,000, members of the Sudan Red Crescent Society provide Child-to-Child mine awareness training and promote ratification of the Mine Ban Treaty.”
In 2004
“ Since November 2002, UNICEF has been supporting the NMAO with MRE experts. From 25 September to 4 October 2003, UNICEF conducted a workshop for 30 participants in order to develop a standard MRE curriculum for Sudan. [79] A new UNICEF MRE advisor joined the NMAO in April 2004. The Sudanese delegation at the June 2004 Standing Committee meetings in Geneva indicated that 251 people now work in MRE in Sudan. [80]
In September 2004, MAG began a community focused MRE project in southern Sudan to train two teams of Community Liaison Officers and Peer Educators and operate around the towns of Yei and Kapoete. [81] MAG works in Sudan in support of local partners, notably JASMAR and OSIL, and is working towards providing country-wide support.
In 2005 the following Child-to-Child Mine-Risk Education Projectwas approved to be implemented by the Humanitarian Aid and Development Organization (HAD) towards helping “50,000 children, aged 6 to 17 years, living in Juba.”
The project aimed to:
- Establish a core group of 30 children through personnel of HAD and ROD working in Juba, in collaboration with community-based organizations (CBOs) and local leaders of different tribes. This core group should be representative of all tribes and age groups (ten from each age group: 6-9, 10-13, and 14-17).
- Develop an appropriate mine-risk education curriculum, with the assistance of children themselves. This curriculum should be relevant to the children's standards, local language, tradition and cultural context.
- Have personnel of ROD and HAD—who had previous training on mine-risk education—conduct a standard mine-risk education training for the core group during one month.
- Have the core group, under the supervision of ROD personnel, disseminate mine-risk-education messages among children in and out of schools using peer education, lectures, focus-group discussion and mobile theatre in different internally displaced person (IDP) camps.
- Rate of mine and UXO casualties lowered among children in Juba
Its expected outcomes were:
- Noticeable change in behaviour achieved.
- Reporting of mines and UXO increased.
- Dangerous roads avoided by children.
Contact: Arwa Mohammed,
Tel: +2498 3464102,
Fax: +2498 3464114;
E-mail: roots@sudanmail.net
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