Progress of the year

 

01. The Peer Supporters have provided support to 1,848 children (983 boys and 865 Girls) aged between 9-18 at the centre based programmes in Dhaka and Chittagong. The Peer Supporters also rescued 44 boys and 98 girls from the street who were abused or at high risk of abuse.

02. The Care Givers have provided support to 1,262 children (537 boys and 725 girls) aged between 9-18 at the centre-based programmes.

03. The Media and Advocacy Group has communicated 627 children (230 boys and 397 girls) to encourage them to submit their writing to the YPP project.

04. The Youth Facilitators have provided direct support to 735 children (363 boys and 372 girls).

05. Popular theater training was facilitated by a professional theatre organizationfor a duration of 10 days (March 17-26). 20 youth from Aparajeyo Bangladesh YPP and its partner associations were selected by the YPP youth.

06. The Peer Supporters continued their awareness sessions as per their particular schedule in 12 shelter programs on particular issues e.g. CSEC, Trafficking, HIV/AIDS prevention, Child Rights, Child Labor, and Early Marriage.

07. Peer Supporters continued providing support regularly at 4 schools. The Peer Supporters are conducting the sessions with youth groups through interesting methods and amusing activities.

08. A wall magazine competition was facilitated in Dhaka and Chittagong cities. 30 schools or welfare organizations providing support to disadvantaged children’s groups were selected to participate in the competition.

09. 13 participants from Bangladesh participated at the YPP Regional Consultation held in Nepal from 13-17 December’07.

10. Developed partnershis with the Scouts, Girl Guides and Rovers for youth from these institutions to provide voluntary support to disadvantaged children at risk of CSEC and trafficking.

11. The TV fillers that were developed through the project were televised by 3 satellite TV channels, three times a day.

 

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