I have just finished my first week working with Save the Children in Gizo town. Although the office is nothing exciting (its hot, dirty and empty), the people are lovely and they are doing an amazing job with limited resources. My counterpart Lisi is lovely. She is two years younger than me with a new baby, and has just taken on the role of Children’s Advocacy Project Officer… it is my role to support her in her new job, and offer her some on the job training so that she can be more effective in her work.
Although I haven’t started working with the kids yet, they are so cute! There are some big burdens that these little cuties have to bear though… hopefully the work of Save the Children can help ease it for them. Our main role is to educate both children and the community on the UN Convention of the Rights of a Child, and to create space for children to take action if they feel their rights are being violated.
Lisi and I have been busy preparing for International Children’s Day. The Child Clubs that we run (there are over 25 of them) will each have a dedicated children’s day, where the children will parade, make speeches on issues that they are concerned about, perform dramas and songs etc. We have also been busy preparing for a big stakeholders meeting, where we have invited politicians, doctors, educators, police officers, NGO’s and children to discuss issues that local children here are concerned about and hopefully come up with some strategies to solve them. I’m enjoying feeling useful, although somehow I think I will learn more than I will teach!
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