Higher Council for Motherhood and ChildhoodJuvenile workers get training [Archives:2005/804/Community]

By Fahmia Al-Fotih
For Yemen Times Staff
The Higher Council for Motherhood & Childhood concluded a four-day training course for workers with juveniles on Dec. 29.

“We hope through this training course that the participants can come up with future ideas and aspects to help them improving and insure the juveniles rights as well as raise awareness among the society members about this weak sector,” said Dr. Nafisa Al Jaifi, the sectary-general of the group.

“These juveniles are victims of the society itself including, family, street, bad friends and the society that hasn't protected them. The results of this training course will reflect on the national plan to develop the children potion in Yemen.”

The workshop is one of the activities of the national network for caring the juveniles that formed in 2004 with coordination of the ministries, non-governmental societies and international organizations.

Al Jaifi said the group hopes that the participants will have an idea about planning, perfect ways of dealing with juveniles and incorporate them after getting out of prisons in the society as well as train, rehabilitate them and find out their talents and abilities to be efficient people in the society.

She also noted that Yemen is participating in an international contest for drawing. In last year's competition, two Yemeni children won.

“So we have contacted a number of schools and the contest is open for all children, street children, juveniles, poor children and special needs children. For more information they could contact the Higher Council for Motherhood and Childhood.”

The training course also pointed out to the general rights of child and specifies the age in which the child can be convicted in an Islamic point of view and discuss the psychological effects on the juveniles. A number of cases were presented to display the violence practiced against the juveniles as well as the project of modifying the juveniles' law.

Ms. Fathia Abduallah, the assistant secretary-general at the Higher Council, said that the council will conduct a study to clearly know more about the child situations and know the social, demographical and economical qualities of the children in Yemen.

Abduallah AL-Khamisi, coordinator at the council, also commented on the training course. He noted about 150 participants have benefited form the training course.
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