Orientation for Kids Club Liaison

Orientation for Kids Club Liaison

Mambo, Grand Cape Mount, September 27, 2009: Community Liaisons for Kids2day! have undergone an orientation session for the upcoming Kids Club. The day long event was held on the weekend in Mambo, Grand Cape Mount.

Participants came from the current four clubs at Mambo, Bo, Tienii and Gbesseh, as well as representatives from Mani, Bandor and Wuilor, which are also aspiring to have clubs set up there and members of the Advisory Board.

Among other things, particpants received lectures on Human Rights, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the Millennium Development Goals.

The workshop also included discussions on activities outlined under the Kids Club as well as lessons on Partnership and Network Building, and the Monitoring of Children Issues
Kids Club is an activity of Kids2day! meant to create safe spaces for children to periodically discuss the issues affecting them in the rural communities and to share ideas about how they can be part of the solution.

The Club includes a room where they can have access to newspapers, books, computers, video, games, radio and other accessories to understand the issues in society, including those that may enhance their own space to understand the issues concerning them.

Kids2day! was developed to get kids to play a creative role in their development. It enhances their personal development, and lays the basis for their future.

The emphasis is on ensuring their rights - whether through education, health care, and other welfare, fully guided by the notion that they are kids today, preparing for a fully functional future tomorrow. For now, today, they remain kids and must be encouraged and prodded to develop.

Further information about kids2day! can be gleaned from kids2day4liberia.blogspot.com; You can also contact us at : kids2day.liberia@gmail.com or +231 (0)6-522-334.

The Gardnersville situation is just the tip

"The Gardnersville situation is just the tip" - Kids2day!

Monrovia, September 7, 2009: a Liberian children development group, Kids2day! says the gross disappointment President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf met at the Goodridge School in Gardnersville (Monrovia) is just the tip of the demoralization the children of Liberia are faced with daily.

"That students in Monrovia are still fighting over chairs, and getting hurt from the process, signals worse conditions in towns ars far off and remote as SassTown, Grand Kru or Vahun in Lofa," Kids2day! official KA Kamara said.

"The media, especially the Heritage Newspaper, did a great job by reporting that disservice to the children of this country, and should be commended for that."

The further challenge is now on the President to demand a review of the changes that should have been made in the educational sector, during the years of her stewardship.

"Education in the public secor is not for profit making, and any effort aimed at making education relevant for the public must be expressed through love for country and fellow man."

Kids2day! has meanwhile commended President Sirleaf for the strong disciplinary action against Education Minister Joseph Korto and his deputies - Hester Catakaw, Emmanuel Roberts, and called for a vigorous review of expenditures on education to ensure that tax payers funds intended for the education of the future generation are being used properly.

Kids2day! has been developed to get kids to play a creative role in their development. It enhances their personal development, and lays the basis for their future.

Photo: A Liberian child raising flags for quality education during a recent kids2day! event