We Must Improve Livelihoods Of Our Children: Director
The Northern Bahr el Ghazal State Director General at the State Information and Communication Ministry Mary Makelel has urged the parents and guardians of the under-aged children to ensure that the livelihood of children is improved and strongly enhanced. 20 April 2013 By Abraham Agoth AWEIL, 19 April 2013 [Gurtong]-Speaking to the Directors of various ministries in Aweil, Makelel called upon directors, Parents, guardians and the Parents Teacher Association (PTA) representatives to allow more chances of child’s rights awareness and promote free child welfare for all in the state. “Our children are undergoing different cultural influence while watching at them with ignorance. We must come up with solutions to protect and promote their way of coping with these influences without being damaged. The increase of street is increasing day by day of poor management in some homes and lack of affordability for children’s education and feeding hence resulting to loss of hope in their lives where they think of staying in the market will be the cheapest thing to get and there she/he becomes a street child unknowingly,” she said. This call came when Makelel took an initiative to invite most of the directors in various ministries into a directors’ coordination meeting organized by her in ministry in collaboration with state ministry of social welfare to tackle the challenges being encountered by the school children. The participants instituted out that the government must be addressed to give better education to young children who do not know the importance of education. “We are the eyes of the most parents who do not know whether children go to schools or not. We all know that most of the children pretend to be going to schools and later come hang up around market where they spend the rest of their times watching prohibited films such of karate, theft, wrestling and among others; when they come home, instead of revising what was taught the school, then definitely the child may have all those bad ideas he/she watched in mind which prevents him/her from performing well at the school. We must do something to build their capacity,” Makelel said. Makelel while she calls on the senior directors, director generals and the representatives of various state ministries to minimize heavy work on children whose time is combined with school work. Among the resolutions reached by directors were that the video show owners must be instructed not to allow under aged children to be watching harmful video shows and school children be arrested in case found watching any kind of a show in public places. The resolution calls on the police to do more efforts in enforcing the resolutions. Posted in: Home, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
