Syrian Trust for  Development launches a campaign to raise awareness of effects of violence on children in Aleppo

The Syria Trust for Development in Aleppo, in cooperation with the Directorate of Education, launched a campaign to raise awareness of the effects of violence on children .This campaign will continue for ten days in many secondary schools in Aleppo.

The campaign raises awareness topics related to social issues, including domestic violence and children’s rights, and provides psychological counseling to students.

The director of the initial legal response at the Syria Trust for Development, lawyer Bashar Askif, said in a statement to SANA correspondent that the campaign was launched from Aleppo Governorate because it had suffered greatly as a result of the terrorist war. It includes providing awareness sessions against violence, by a specialized team of lawyers and psychological therapists from the Syria Trust for Development and by a psychological and social counselor from the Education Directorate. These sessions aimed at monitoring and treating unclear cases of violence within the areas of the secretariat’s presence in the four neighborhoods of Aleppo.

According to Askif, the campaign aims to help those in charge of the educational system ensure a healthy and appropriate educational environment that enables all children to benefit from it and achieve their goals, calling on parents not to promote a culture of responding to violence with violence and to emphasize respect for laws and compassion for others.

Director of Manarat Al-Safira Community Zeina Qiblawi who is responsible for the child protection sector in the Syria Trust for Development in Aleppo, pointed out that the campaign highlights the legal aspect of juvenile and child laws, while educating and training adolescents on the mechanism of controlling and managing anger and how to deal with their psychological emotions, based on societal responsibility to deal with the phenomenon of violence against children within and outside the family.

According to Kablawi, the campaign includes awareness sessions with educational staff at the school, and monitoring  psychologically repressed states in children and adolescents that are reflected in their behavior and negatively affect them and society.

The lawyer in the Initial Legal Response Program, Basma Najjar, pointed out that the legal awareness sessions include an explanation about violence and its causes, bullying and its negative effects that lead to delays in the educational process, the law on the rights and duties of the child, and an emphasis that the state protects the child’s right to education at all levels, and it is compulsory and free at the basic education stage.

Inas Abdulkareem