On November 21, to mark "Universal Children's Day," EducAid, together with its local partner the Remedial Education Center, organized a celebration with the children of six schools of the northern part of Gaza Strip.
Over the last year, children from these schools have benefitted from extra-curricular activities implemented within the project GA-S-INK, “Promotion of Gaza School Inclusion”, supported by the European Union, Regione Emilia Romagna, Municipalities of Rimini, Riccione and Ravenna, Province of Rimini.
The date of 20 November marks the day on which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989.
For Husam Hamdouna, director of the Remedial Education Center (Palestinian NGO working in the educational sector since 1991), “Universal Children's Day is an occasion for all Palestinians to reaffirm their commitment to respect and promote Children’s Rights”. “The promotion of Children’s Rights should take place at two levels: at the public level through the effort of the institutions; and at the community level, through the work of the NGOs”. As an educational organization R.E.C. is focusing its efforts on the right to education: “We are trying to change the concept of the right to education in our community. For us it’s not enough to say that every child should have the right to attend school, we believe that to respect the right of education we should guarantee a high-quality school, a school that respects the differences and the different needs of every child, especially the ones with more difficulties”. “We think that this day should promote the happiness of the children, so we are working to make them feel happy”.
Three hundred children with learning difficulties benefit within the project from extra-curricular lessons aiming at helping them to overcome their difficulties. This celebration is an opportunity for them to stress their rights, and to express what these rights really mean to them.
Universal Children's Day has been be also the occasion to launch officially the “EDUCATIONAL WEB TWINNING”, a web twinning project that will connect children attending schools in Italy and in Gaza, giving them the chance to meet each other. The twinning project will involve the Child Rights Center of Jabalia (Gaza Strip), funded by REC and EducAid in 2006. The site will include a section dedicated to Children's Rights, and will give the opportunity to children, teachers and educators, living in two different parts of the world, to share opinions on the meaning of Children Rights.
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