Youth Partnership Project sums up results
More than 14,000 children from Chisinau preuniversity and vocational education institutions acquired knowledge of child commercial sexual exploitation, safe use of the Internet and HIV/AIDS, while more than 4,000 children were involved in different activities on these issues such as roundtable meetings and seminars within the Youth Partnership Project that was implemented simultaneously in 11 countries, Info-Prim Neo reports.
In a summing up conference on December 9, the head of the Association “Child, Community, Family” Liliana Rotaru said the project started in 2009 and involved 15 high schools and vocational schools located in Chisinau and its suburbs.
Thirty-two children from the 15 institutions had been instructed within s for several months. As a result, they became educators with the same rights and, since September, when they returned to classes, they organized different out-of-school activities for their colleagues in their schools, in the presence of the class master.
Lorina Ghitu, project manager of the Association “Child, Community, Family”, said the students became much more responsible after taking part in these activities. The 32 participants benefited also from student awards during the project.
The project educators and participants said it was a useful experience that will help them in the future. The children said the seminars helped them to easier communicate and to state and argue their opinions.
The Youth Partnership Project was financed by ECPAT International, the European Union and OAK Foundation and implemented by the Public Association “Child, Community, Family” over January 2009 – December 2011.