CONTRIBUTE IN CREATING A CHILD-FRIENDLY WORLD. HERE IS HOW…

Your contribution in helping us make this a better world for children is invaluable. All you need to do is see things from the eyes of the children, and doing what you do best... Are you listed here?

A child-friendly Police Person:

• Does not look at every street child as a potential law-breaker

• Understands that children need a different approach

• Tries to see the world from the point of view of a child

• A child-friendly Health Worker:

• Empathizes with a child’s fear of hospitals

• Helps them with forms and admission or OPD procedures

• Offers a greater measure of tender loving care to the child in hospital

• A child-friendly Judiciary Officer:

• Advocates proactively for child rights

• A child-friendly Juvenile Justice System Functionary:

• Makes the child’s best interests its priority

• Does not criminalise children and seeks to dispense justice in a manner suitable to their age

• A child-friendly Educationist:

• Helps the child develop a questioning attitude

• Encourages participation in the processes of education

• Advocates for the inclusion of child rights in the curriculum

• Watches out for, and guards against violation of the children’s rights

• A child-friendly Transport System Functionary:

• Helps the lost child, keeps an eye out for missing children and tries to relocate them

• Understands that to street children, the buses, trains, platforms and stations are not just places through which they pass but in which they may have to live

• A child-friendly Labour Department Official:

• Works towards the prevention of the abuse of children in the workplace

• Works towards the elimination of child labour

• A child-friendly Media Person:

• Promotes awareness about child’s rights

• Ensures that coverage of children’s issues is handled sensitively and does not intrude upon the privacy of children

• Involves the child proactively in media processes

• A child-friendly DoT Official:

• Provides support to child rights initiatives ensures the smooth functioning of 1098

• A child-friendly Corporate Sector Employee:

• Provides support to child rights initiatives

• Is committed to child’s rights

• A child-friendly Elected Representative:

• Makes issues relating to child rights and child protection a priority

• All of us:

• Must call CHILDLINE when we see a child in any kind of distress

• Support the cause of child rights.