Goal: To develop leadership skills of young people and raise awareness of Gender Role
Duration: January 2020 to December 2020
Location: Dhaka city Corporation (10 schools and 5 Madrasah)
Financial partner: PLAN, Bangladesh
Target Beneficiary: 10-24 years young people.
Project Briefing: This project aimed to build the capacity of adolescents of 10-19 years and 20-24 years of youths at schools and madrasas. Training on Leadership and Gender was conducted. A campaign was arranged to prevent child marriage and to prevent the unwanted sexual harassment and taboo within the educational institutes. During the implementation of this project 3 major activities were performed:
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One youth summit of 100 students was arranged.
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16 days of activism, which is a Global Campaign of mass gathering for 1 million raising was organized with 500 people.
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Media Fellowship was offered to 12 young girls who wrote articles in Daily News Papers on awareness against Violence Against Women, Gender Based Violence.
Major Achievements from the Project:
It is not only the achievement, but also an impact for CWFD that gradually, CWFD was encouraged to include the young people in a wider scale and through this the organization decided to change its vision.
lesson Learned:
CWFD published a wonderful comic book named “পরিবর্তনের গল্পঃ আমরাই পারি”– which was a new activity for CWFD, and it built a confidence to proceed further for this type of creative activity.
Challenges:
Just after the inception of the project in January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic started in March 2020 and continued for the whole year. So, face-to-face work or the activities in person was prohibited and restricted.
