Day of General Discussion on Children’s Rights and Alternative Care
The LFBS team in Haiti has been working hard on contributing to the United Nations Human Rights Day of General Discussion on Children’s Rights and Alternative Care.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child is a UN body of independent experts who are responsible for reviewing progress on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲.
Throughout May and June, we have been conducting workshops and facilitating surveys with youth who have previously been separated from their families (mostly through the orphanage system) and who have been reunited by LFBS. We have translated the Committee survey from French to Creole to make it more accessible to the children we are working with.
We can now report that we have had 𝟲𝟭 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲 (33 boys & 28 girls) from three communities across the Sud Department and Grand Anse!
Eluxon, our Child and Youth Mentor (who formerly went through the orphanage and restavek system himself), has been the main facilitator of these workshops. Thank you to Eluxon, and to the entire LFBS team in Haiti, for ensuring that these children’s voices are heard and represented in this very important discussion!