Protection de l´enfant

Many young people and providers do not know what their rights are in the medical, clinical and research settings. Often providers have a difficult time explaining to young people and parents the risks and benefits of procedures, their rights to privacy, other confidentiality rights and that they should feel free to ask questions when they don't understand what is going on. Medical jargon can be difficult for young people and their parents to decipher and often, due to intimidation on the part of the patients, there is a lack of true understanding as individuals go through the medical and research process. This can be especially difficult in the research arena which young people are often quite sick, parents are afraid and my not understand the true implications of enrolling a child in a research study. Hadskis et. al. have explored this in the article The therapeutic misconception: a threat to valid parental consent for pediatric neuroimaging research http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18792535 as have many other such as Angst et. al. (Clinical Trials for Chidlren) http://www.parkridgecenter.org/Page466.html. The uniqueness of the idea comes in the way to combat this issue. Through workshops with our students already in our program, other young people at other programs, young people already in the medical and research system and their parents, we will assist young people in navigating the often difficult arena of medical decision making. Additionally, we will create DVDs, website programming and interactive courses based on research, surveys and evaluations, that will be targeted towards youth, parents and providers in order to work on improving the doctor patients/researcher patient relationship. Especially in the research arena, given past transgressions against vulnerable groups (http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/343/21/1581) a project such as this, utilizing technology, can be a true way to revolutionize the way patients and providers interact.

Surprising Statistics(USA AND AFRICA(KENYA) IN COMPARISON)
I have used this statistic to show that in Africa(Kenya)there is inadequate resource health centers where like statistics can be found.
According to Statistics, in the U.S.(as in comparison to many countries in Africa where the child protection is very high)
- Two-thirds (67 percent) of all victims of sexual assault reported to law
enforcement agencies were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime.
- One of every seven victims of sexual assault reported to law enforcement
agencies was under age 6.
- The year in a male's life when he is most likely to be the victim of a
sexual assault is age 4; a female's greatest risk is at age 14.
- Nearly half (49 percent) of the offenders of victims under age 6 were family members.. This is just was is documented what of in Africa where documentation less to be found or not to be found.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, the typical sex offender molests an average of 117 children, although most offenses are never reported.
According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, "US Based:"
- 80 percent of convicted adult rapists admit to molesting children.
- 80 to 95 percent of sex offenders assault people they know.
- Less than 30 percent of sex crimes are reported.
- Young victims who know or are related to the offender are least likely to
report the crime.
It is estimated that in America there are 60 million childhood sexual abuse survivors.Unlike in Kenya is Unknown.
My INNOVATION: A free SMS center (short message services to be introduced to all major health centers e.g Provincial Hospital, District Hospital, in order to save life of the abused child or children by predator and speed up treatment to avoid deaths or getting drugs either from the bush or local chemists.Attached find a Video clip on child abuse.

What makes my idea unique is that currently the world in general and Rwanda in particular, are faced to a very crucial issue of old women and men looking for very young and most of the cases minor lovers instead of their age lovers. You can find a man aged 50 trying to date an under eighteen girl and starts going out with her, mostly hiding for the girl doesn’t want her parents find out what she is doing and the old man doesn’t want his wife to remark his secret relationship with a girl of the same age as his last born daughter. The same event is happening on the side of old women who are apparently no longer satisfied of their relationships with their old husbands or widows who, instead of getting married again to men of their age scale, want to be married to very or fairly young boys in order, is it said, to feel young again.

A rich business woman meets a young gentleman in the supermarket and at first sight she falls in love with him, that she’s going to offer him a position of accountant in her business and do many things to him but doesn’t tell openly him that she needs his love and this boy thinks that she’s taking care of him in order to make her business progress.

After some time, because the guy is also a singer, he goes to sing somewhere and meets the daughter of his boss and this beautiful girl that was already in love with the artist through media, but had never met any opportunity to meet him, the gentleman falls in love with her and this goes on, but the girl is not aware of her boy friend’s employment and the boy doesn’t know that she’s the daughter of his boss.

Later when her mum knows about her daughter’s love, now she’s on holiday, and it becomes a real struggle between mother and daughter and between the mother and her new assigned accountant, that leads to the death of the daughter and later on, the suicide of the mother, that looses at the same time, her daughter and the boy she believed to find in love.

• Raise awareness of the community on GBV aspects and increase ownership of GBV-related problems at all levels
• Promote women’s equal access to matrimonial property
• Provide health and psychological assistance to GBV victims
• Ensure women’s socioeconomic development
• Strengthen spousal stability

The disease's prevalence continues to grow in Kenya despite various efforts to prevent it. Young people aged 14-25 are particularly at risk for engaging in dangerous behavior and contracting Aids. By using football as an educational tool, IKYI uses innovative methods to attract young people and teaches them effective methods and skills for preventing the spread of HIV. Since its creation in 2007, IKYI has been holding workshops and training programmes for over 5,300 young people from various schools and community centres.
In its training programmes, IKYI uses the “Skillz HIV/Aids Prevention programme”, a series of games and activities that allow youth to explore sensitive issues relating to HIV/Aids and acquire the necessary skills to live healthy lives. These skills include critical thinking, communication, self-esteem and decision-making among others. The Skillz programme requires active participation and creates a safe, team-based environment in which participants can comfortably share their feelings, beliefs and ideas about HIV/Aids. Part of the Skillz educators are local soccer players.
IKYI has been a key player in the streetfootballworld for the last three years. The project also promotes prompt heath services seeking behavior. We scale up VCT services, S.T.I Screening, condom distribution and Family planning services. Young people living with HIV/AIDS (YPLWH) get an opportunity to express themselves through football. The YPLWH support groups are linked health providers, services and commodities. We also target Most at risk youth in our project: these include Young female sex workers, and intravenous drug users. Our overall aim is to Increase high risk perceptions regarding HIV among Young people through Football and similar sport.

Combining football with an asset-based youth driven approach is a powerful way to create a strong, skilled youth that feels positive and confidant to build a sustainable future for themselves.

(The YDF toolkit will be implemented to guarantee football and life skill training to all participants. The toolkit will be complimented by various other activities including the ABYD Football Program.)

Teams, headed by youth leaders, start by identifying their personal and communal social and environmental capital.
The teams consist of teenage boys and girls of various ages and will receive a project assignment in the form of a food tent. These food tents have the capability to provide fresh vegetables for 50 people a month. The teams must come up with innovative and creative ways to turn this venture into a profitable social enterprise. The participant will receive relevant training to develop their financial and economic skills that will heighten the success of the project. The teams can utilize the profit of the venture as they see fit but only after they have serviced their designated cluster of community members in the surrounding area.

The teams will compete with one another during the course of the year in various areas. They will play continues football matches with one another and it is very important for the teams to accommodate fellow team members. Emphasis is placed on mutual respect and ways how to support weaker team members to strengthen the team as a whole. This will ensure maximum scoring during the ongoing evaluation process.

Children will be liberally encouraged and dignified throughout the program that will boost their self esteem and sense of self worth that are contributors for overall life success.

Absence of the similar projects in Russia, using ICT to discover football talents, assisting their transition to the system of professional sport.

This program has created a high level of commitment with the young people who have a role not only as participants but as trainers. It is good that young people are learning life skills through sports activities but this process is enhanced when they take responsibility for training in life skills to children from their community.
This program is also empowering women. The majority of the volunteer trainers are women from the community. They join the program because they are concerned about the negative and unhealthy lifestyles that are common in these marginalized urban areas, such as gangs, drugs abuse, vandalism and domestic violence. For that reason, they want to improve their life quality and their children´s too. Thanks to their work as volunteer trainers, they become leaders and models that break the gender barrier that is a common scheme that perpetuates exclusion and poverty. The Sports program is breaking with these paradigms which in a long term will be reflected in the multifunctional improvement of the community.

Current initiatives in South Sudan tend to concentrate on "soothing the victims" of past wars, not acknowledging that an independent S. Sudan after the January 2011 referendum, is very vulnerable to regional & ethnic clashes that will affect so many women & children. ATB-Juba demarcates the future Sudan from its past. It draws clear correlation between future leadership skills and sustainable peace. It aims to involve potential future warlords (street children) in sustainable social cohesion engagements and responsibilities. It targets 1,000 street children for rehabilitation and reintegration into main stream society. It appreciates these children as the future leaders of the new nation, and seeks to instill into them better morals, improved health and good leadership skills.
ATB-JUBA shall organize football games played on a smaller field, with fewer players and fewer rules, right where these children are. The children and community shall be attracted for recreation & competition around the games and the small fields shall provide opportune avenues for greater social interaction.
ATB-Juba shall adopt comprehensive approaches termed as:
PREVENTIVE INTERVENTIONS: (strengthening the capacity of families/communities to take care of their children and education facilities to promote counseling services for possible drop-outs; encouraging youth over 14 years into vocation training, functional literacy, numeracy, & life skills programs; identifying opportunities to create income; and making the public aware of these children’s' cause) and;
PROTECTIVE STRATEGIES (creating relationships with these children and surrounding adults; providing health care & education, establishing a drop-in centre, undertaking family reunification and school reintegration activities)

During the World Cup 2010 more than …… billion people will experience the Greatest Game on Earth. The world is going to cheer at every goal they see. Happiness and excitement will make every goal priceless!
But what if all people know that every goal can support people in the needed parts of Africa? Will a goal regain a donation and give something back to the world? We think that players, fans, companies and every human being are willing to support a foundation that will change making goals in to achieving goal.
The foundation is going to make it possible to donate a fixed amount of money (by sms or banktransaction) for every goal there will be scored. Not only this year, but every next year! Soccer fans all over the world will donate a Euro or Dollar back to the world.
Starting with the professional players that will play at the World Cup 2010. When they start to endorse a non-profit foundation like “Every Goal has a Goal!” the rest of the world is certainly going to follow!
The next step will be that all professional clubs worldwide will be invited to join this program/social soccer platform to support the goals in Africa. After that al amateur clubs / players will be invited to join this World Wide Soccer Platform.

The Street Child World Cup:
1. is a fusion of football, arts and human rights. Harnessing the global languages of football and arts, it enables one of the world's most marginalised groups to communicate on a worldwide stage.
2. has the involvement of whole communities – schools, colleges and the private sector (including Deloitte), local and international NGOSs, faith groups and arts organisations, youth workers, sports clubs and football professionals.
3. in the inaugural event brought together, for the first time, street children from eight different countries. The project overcame considerable challenges in obtaining ID and travel permissions to make this a reality.
4. uniquely places the experiences and voices of street children at its heart, particularly through a ground-breaking conference in which street children addressed issues of home and reintegration, protection from violence, and access to health and education. The project now works on the priorities the children identified, enabling partners to communicate and campaign about these issues in their own setting.
5. arose from partnerships with local street child organisations; it is a genuinely bottom-up project. The project was organic enough to be shaped by the views, strengths and priorities of partners around the world, becoming a uniquely empowering vehicle to make change happen at a local level.
6. equips local partners to maximise their returns, including in advocacy, media work, opening up new funding streams, and enabling participating children to take a mentoring or advocacy role.
7. generated support from the football world and placed a media spotlight on street children. Where papers and TV may have run only negative stories media outlets around the world, through the SCWC, presented street children as heroes. Many were welcomed home with large receptions. Such shifts in perception lead to real changes in the ways that street children are treated.