PRESS RELEASE

“Supporting children’s rights through education, art and mass-media”
Training of trainers workshop
Bucharest, 16-17 May 2005

INVITATION

The Ministry of Education and Research invites you to take part on Tuesday, 17 May 2005, at 14.00, in the press conference taking place at the French Institute (Bd Dacia no.77), which presents the conclusions of the training workshop “Supporting children’s rights through education, art and mass-media” organised on 16-17 May 2005 by the Ministry of Education and Research in partnership with the Embassy of France to Bucharest, the International Labour Organization – International Programme on the elimination of child labour (ILO – IPECL) and USAID.

This event comes within the Government concerns for promoting the children’s rights to protection against economic exploitation and obligation to perform work with potential risk or susceptible of damage to the child’s health and physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development of the children.

The workshop “Supporting children’s rights through education, art and mass-media”, addressed to 40 teachers – national trainers, included in the French-Romanian bilateral project “Education for information in disadvantaged rural areas”, aims to raise understanding and awareness of child labour among different communities.
 
The workshop is focused on the use of the SCREAM manual (Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and Media), translated in Romanian and printed in 1000 copies with the USAID support. The manual is addressed to teachers and educators in general and it includes examples of activities to be carried out through creative and innovating methods in order to inform and raise responsibilities among youth with regard to their rights. The main goal envisaged is to promote the education and community integration process meant to enable young people to undertake their role as agents for mobilisation and social change. One of the authors, Mr. Nicholas Grieswood (ILO – IPECL Geneva), will participate in the training of national trainers.

Every Documentation and Information Centre will receive a copy in order to be used by the documentation teachers during the activities with the pupils after they have completed themselves a training module conducted by the national trainers.
 
The information and documentation centres ensure the active participation of the Romanian school in the protection of minors’ rights and its involvement in the community matters, contributing to the sustainable development of Romanian society, which will therefore become more compatible with  the European Union.

Director,
Mircea MUREŞAN