Advocacy & Awareness

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <IMG SRC="13e8a9e0.jpg" border=0 width="138" height="158" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Trebuchet MS" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Society for Underprivileged Families"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U><B>About Us</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Project Areas"><U><B>Project Areas</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Programs"><U><B>Programs</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bright Girls Bright Boys"><U><B>Bright Girls & Bright Boys</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="From The Children"><U><B>From The Children</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Get Involved"><U><B>Get Involved</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Events"><U><B>Events</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Advocacy & Awareness</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shop"><U><B>Shop</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Partners"><U><B>Partners</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B>Contact Us</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Society for Underprivileged Families</B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Trebuchet MS" ><B>(SUF)</B> </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Trebuchet MS" >|     </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#009933" FACE="Trebuchet MS" >H<A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Society for Underprivileged Families"><U>ome</U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U>About Us</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Project Areas"><U>Project Areas</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Programs"><U>Programs</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bright Girls Bright Boys"><U>Bright Girls & Bright Boys</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="From The Children"><U>From The Children</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Get Involved"><U>Get Involved</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Events"><U>Events</U></A>   |   Advocacy & Awareness   |   <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shop"><U>Shop</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Partners"><U>Partners</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Advocacy and Awareness Raising</B></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="advocacy___awareness"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> SUF are involved in many advocacy and awareness rasing initiatives at both the local and national levels with the aim of supporting children and establishing child rights within SUF districts and across Bangladesh.</div> <bR> <div> SUF advocacy and awareness initiatives involve working with children, parents, teachers, community members, local and national governments, and other organisations.  Efforts have resulted in:</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Child and youth club</B> representatives are now involved in annual community planning meetings with the local ward commissioners.  This allows children the ability to advocate for their rights and the needs of their peers in the project area.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Parents </B>have increased their level of advocacy for the rights of their children in the community as well as motivating shop owners to send children to school and create non-hazardous working environments.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Community Watch Group</B> members are taking the lead role in advocating for safe workplaces for children, monitoring workplaces and ensuring the code of conduct is upheld.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">SUF </B>with support from the Community Watch Group members, local ward commissioner and local school authorities have and continue to advocate for children's access to mainstream education. This has resulted in children being able to receive reduced mainstream school admission, tuition, books and extra tutoring fees.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Children</B> have held various awareness raising Theatre for Development (TfD) productions for community members around pressing issues such as child rights, hazardous workplaces, early marriage, trafficking etc.  This has resulted in increased community awareness of these issues as well as increasing childrens ability to speak openly in community.  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">SUF continue to conduct and <B>train community members </B>about child rights, the value of education and other community issues.  This has increased<IMG SRC="19bde920.jpg" border=0 width="222" height="146" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> the number of community advocates supporting and understanding child rights.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">SUF continue to conduct education, training and awareness raising sessions with <B>mainstream formal school teachers</B> to establish an understanding about working children and their educational needs.  This has increased mainstream teacher ability to teach working children as well as increase support for working children to access mainstream education.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Teachers training session</I></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">SUF work <B>in</B> <B>partnership </B>with other organisations SUF advocate at state and national levels for child rights.  Such action has resulted in great feats such as the establishment of a domestic worker register.                                                                        </div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>