A daylong training for children on safeguarding and reporting mechanisms was held in Rajshahi city on Sunday aiming to protecting the children from all sorts of violence and exploitation.
The Association for Community Development (ACD) organised the training in its conference hall supported by the ECPAT International.
The project being implemented in Rajshahi city and Godagari and Mohanpur upazilas intended to build a congenial atmosphere for the children through preventing all sorts of repression and oppression.
A total of 25 child leaders selected from the project-covering areas joined the training and they were given ideas and knowledge on how to protect their nearby children and youths from harassment and repression.
Muhammad Ali Ahmed, Coordinator of the project, gave an overview of their project along with its aims, objectives and implementation strategy, while Programme Officer Atia Tansima and Community Mobilizer Mantaka Akter conducted the session related to digital literacy.
In separate group discussions, the participants discussed elaborately about the best uses of the national emergency services and communications.