District Child Protection Unit, in collaboration with Child Welfare Committee, Mon District and Mon ADP, World Vision India organised awareness programme on “child protection” for Village Child Protection Level Committee (VCPLC) and Ward Level Child Protection Committee (WLCPC) on Wednesday at DRDA Hall, Mon.
In the programme, SDO (C) Mon, Kumar Ramnikant, said that children are the future of the society and nation. Therefore, he said it was the responsibility of every parents and the society to secure the future by protecting the child and spreading awareness on child protection.
District Child Protection Officer (DCPO) Mon, Samuel Kapu, while elaborating on the roles and responsibilities of VCPLC and WLCPC, urged them to join hands to work out together in securing the future of children.
Discouraging compromising any child related case within the parents of the victims and accused, he said that when a case was compromised the mental and emotional feelings of a victim are never taken into consideration, thereby injustice being delivered to the victim.
Emphasizing on the need to maintain records of domestic helpers being sent outside the district, Kapu urged the parents to provide data of how many children have been sent as a domestic helper. He sought cooperation from the parents so that together they could protect and secure the future of the child.
Deliberating on child protection- issues and challenges in Mon district, advocate Mannon Konyak, termed early marriage, lack of awareness and family planning as some of the problems.
Emphasizing that it was the duty of every parent to protect the right of the children, he said the child has every right to survive, live with dignity, health care and drinking water, education, relax and play, protection from violation, protection from physical abuse etc.
He also stated that it was the duty every parent to protect, rescue and rehabilitate the abused.
In the programme, a booklet “Community Based Child Protection Mechanism” in Longam dialect was also released by the SDO (C).