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Relevant background information
Child-to-Child approaches are used in various projects supported by members of the Save the Children family, including:
Enfants et Développement (French SCF) SCF (UK ) and SCF Japan all have used or are using Child-to-Child ideas and materials but mainly as resources for projects in Health, Education and ECCD.
Enfants et Développement (Save the Children France)
Activities began in 1997 and are carried out alongside similar activities in Cambodia. The agency works with pre-school and school aged children through institutions such as primary schools, non-formal early childhood centres (25 in 1999). It seeks not only to promote good health practice but also to promote children’s rights and inclusive education. Activities seek to develop self-confidence and a feeling of self-worth in children. Children are ethnic Vietnamese and ethnic Hmang. Materials produced by L’Enfant pour L’Enfant, including readers, are used and three English readers have also been translated into Vietnamese. Read more
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Save the Children UK
Children’s Environmental Clubs in Rural Areas
HIV/AIDS Prevention
In 2001 Save the Children reported:
Our Children's Environmental Club in Quang Ninh province began in April 1997. Child-to-Child activities in Thanh Hoa and Ha Tinh provinces began in October 1998. Child-to-Child activities are run through the Pioneer association, with the support of the local Women's Union and Youth Union. Funding is provided by SCF, but again with the support of the above organisations. We collaborate with our partners in the following ways:
1. Developing children's knowledge of local health topics and the Facts for Life booklet and improving children's communication and organisational skills;
2. Developing support facilities and organising social events and campaigns: summer camps, mid-Autumn festivals, enrolment day and National Day, vaccination,
safe water and environmental hygiene, anti-rat campaigns to protect crops, disease prevention, malnutrition and HIV/AIDS. Our partners are responsible for the implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation of Child-to-Child activities. SCF UK is responsible for financial and technical support, Child-to-Child needs assessment, training, coaching and providing Child-to-Child materials and story books. We are also responsible for providing other necessary equipment for health education, Facts for Life communication, monitoring children's growth, as well as entertainment activities and review of Child-to-Child activities.
The project used Child-to-Child resource materials and a four-step methodology.
In March 2003 Save the Children also wrote :
‘Regarding applying CtC approach in Vietnam, SCF UK Vietnam has used this approach in anti child trafficking in the North (Quang Ninh, Lang Son and Bac Giang) since 2003. This programme will expand to the South in 2005 (Dong Thap province) and HIV/AIDS prevention programmes will expand to Bac Giang province.’
Date: 2003. Updated information is awaited.
Source: Ha Thi Kim Lien, SCF (UK) Vietnam (hklien@scuk.org.vn)
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