Damascus-Sana
Government and civil authorities in Syria continue to translate their interest in children's rights, care and protection through various programs and activities united by the goal of building a better world for him, while waiting for the first child law soon, according to the head of the Syrian Commission for Family and Population Affairs Akram al-Qash.
On World Children's Day, which falls on the 20th of November of each year, Al-Qash said in a statement to SANA that the Authority has concluded in coordination with the concerned authorities the preparation of the draft law on the rights of the child and that the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor is following up the completion of its expected procedures soon.
Children make up 38 to 40 percent of the Syrian population, according to Hay, pointing out that the Commission is preparing an early childhood strategy from 2020 to 2030 for children under eight years of age, where it is ready to launch at the end of this year after the development of executive programs in cooperation with the relevant ministries.
SOS Children's Association in Syria, according to its chairman Samar Daaboul, provides care services for children through surrogate mothers in the homes of the villages of Saboura and Qudsaya. The number of children reaches 195, while the number of children over the age of 16 years sponsored by the association in independent youth hostels reaches 50. Adolescents to provide children deprived of family care with a safe haven of love and affection.
Daaboul pointed out that the message of the International Children's Villages Organization on the International Day of the Child focused on calling on communities not to ignore children who are marginalized, abused, abused, abandoned and displaced wherever they have launched a global campaign entitled `` I see you '' with the aim of focusing on raising children without family care and raising awareness of their needs and rights.
In the same context, the Society for the Rights of the Child continues to work in the care of children who lack family care health, educational, professional and psychological through its project "the way of bees" launched in 2016, according to its board member Haitham Salta Ji, who showed that various aspects of care are provided to children in parallel with the work to return them to their families and change The stereotype adopted by society about them.
He pointed to the participation of the Syrian Secretariat for Development teams in the development of children's talents and development in various fields and to prepare for the establishment of a bazaar for their artistic works, pointing out that the project since 2016 has provided services to about 500 children and to the presence of a team from the association to investigate the impact and follow-up of children after they left These centers and follow up their families to support and empower them through cooperation with NGOs.
It is worth mentioning that Syria was one of the first Arab countries to apply the experience of the Children's Parliament.It launched it in Deir Ezzor in 2005, Raqqa in 2010, Daraa in 2016 and Rural Damascus in 2019 in order to allow children to raise their needs and problems and participate in finding solutions with the concerned authorities.
November 20 is chosen as World Children's Day because it is the date of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1959 and also the date of adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.
