The experience of the Children's Parliament reaches Damascus countryside… a space to raise needs, problems and solutions

Damascus-Sana

The experience of the Children's Parliament has reached the Damascus countryside after its application in the governorates of Daraa, Deir Ezzor and Raqqa.It was officially launched last week by the Ahl al-Sham Initiative in cooperation with the Directorate of Social Affairs and Labor in Damascus countryside to allow children to raise their needs and problems and participate in finding solutions with the concerned authorities.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Maysa Raslan explained to SANA that the selection of children in parliament came in coordination with NGOs working in Damascus countryside according to criteria such as strength of character and the ability of dialogue to reach the number of parliamentarians to 60 boys and girls between the ages of 12-18 years .

She pointed out that the young parliamentarians implemented a number of initiatives and community activities, including clean-up campaigns in a number of towns and other campaigns related to the support of poor families, including the initiative (your environment Amana), (Yalla clean), (together we can) and (Kasa sugar) in coordination with the Directorate of Social Affairs And work and the countryside of Damascus.

Ruslan pointed out that a number of meetings will be held by the young parliamentarians with the concerned authorities, ministries and governmental and private institutions to jointly find solutions to children's issues and raise a conscious generation that contributes to building and defending the future of his homeland.

For her part, Director of Social Affairs and Labor in Damascus countryside Fatima Al-Rasheed pointed out that the Children's Parliament is a translation of a number of articles of the Convention on Nations The Convention on the Rights of the Child, which refers to the right of the child to participate, express an opinion and listen to their needs, notes the importance of experience to ensure the implementation of this right as well as publicizing and raising awareness of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Al-Rasheed said that the children of the parliament of Damascus countryside and their ideas and skills will transfer them in turn to their peers to present a picture of the world to the potential of Syrian children despite all the difficult circumstances they were exposed to because of the terrorist war on their country, especially since several areas in Damascus countryside suffered for years from the injustice of terrorism before it reinstated. Heroes of the Syrian Arab Army to it security and stability.

A number of young parliamentarians saw their participation in this experience as an opportunity to express their opinions and raise their problems.Nur Al-Huda Al-Hajj, a second-year student from the town of Al-Darkhabiya, said: “My participation is an opportunity to build my self and enhance my self-confidence and learn to express my needs and those of my comrades.

While Adam Shroukh in the seventh grade of the people of Gadat Qudsaya and Bara Zaytoun in the second grade of the Qaysa indicated that their participation enhanced their ability to dialogue and find ideas for the issues that The group of children, especially those who have been subjected to forced displacement to other cities because of the crimes of terrorist organizations, consider the issue of education and school dropout as one of the basic priorities that children need during this period after their return to their areas of origin after being liberated from terrorism.

Rand Ghabra and Ali Al-Ahmad, eighth-grade students in Jaramana, said that the Children's Parliament contributes to organizing the activities and activities carried out by children, adolescents and youth in various regions in a manner that serves the issues of concern to these groups and to convey their problems objectively because they are better able to convey them.

Ninth-grade student Mohammed Aziz from Saqba town referred to their role as junior parliamentarians by participating in the discussion of the problems facing children, the most important of which is psychological support for children who have suffered from terrorism and have been feared and displaced with their families, while Mohammed Shaheen confirmed that his presence in parliament to convey the concerns of children with disabilities.

The Ahl al-Sham Initiative Foundation, which was launched in 2012, includes about 72 NGOs in Damascus countryside that contribute to the implementation of relief work and various development projects for different age groups.

It is noteworthy that the first experiment of the Children's Parliament in Syria was launched by the governorate of Deir ez-Zor in 2005, where small parliamentarians carried out until 2011 about 12 sessions attended by official bodies and civil society and representatives of international organizations specialized in childhood, and represented Syria with a number of external activities and stopped its activities due to the circumstances of the terrorist war on Syria .

Ines Svan

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