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Young Adults of the Tu Y Yo programme, an autism awareness outreach project to Spanish-speaking immigrants in Chicago, put the emphasis on being different rather than having a disability. Recently they and the children on autism participated in the UN #DrawDisability contest.
Although the common tool used in research is the questionnaire survey, it is not so relevant when we want to listen to the voices of children. Completing a pen and paper survey tool is fine for adults but inadequate for children, who need child-friendly types of techniques to express their thoughts and give open and honest responses.
After months of working on a new programme with our partners in Sierra Leone to bring appropriate support to Ebola-affected children, our pilot educational radio programme Pikin-to-Pikin Tork will be released early April.
Celine Woznica recently travelled to Selma, Alabama, USA to participate in the 50th anniversary celebration of the civil rights marches that took place there and changed so much of her country’s racial history.
Penny Boreham, Series Editor of Pikin to Pikin Tok, explains why the audio will be an important element of the programmes as she recalls the day they spent recording the pilot programme in St Mary and St John Primary School in Oxford, England.
Our Chair, Gerison Lansdown, has been commissioned by UNICEF to develop, on behalf of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, a General Comment on the rights of adolescents, for which she will consult adolescents at CATS Conference this summer.
On 21 June 2015 the Child to Child team will enjoy a 10 km walk along the Thames in support of children’s right to participate in society and in all matters which affect them. Join our team to help ensure girls and boys are listened to and taken seriously across the globe.
As the number of Ebola orphans in Sierra Leone reaches 15,000, Tricia Young tells Pearl Works how she came to work for the organisation Child to Child, which is using radio to reach young people most in need.