CRE Partner CSOs:

1. CHILD VOICE, Mr. S. Annadurai, Dindigul
2. HOPE – Mr. P. Victor Joseph Raj – Puducherry
3. INDO Trust, Mr. J. Mohammed Usain Babu, Perambalur
4. IPRO, Mr. S. Mohan
5. POWER Trust, Mr. C. Ramu, Salem
6. REAL Foundation, Mr. K.P. Senthilraja, Dharmapuri
7. SUDAR Trust, Mr. S.C. Natarajan, Erode
8. Thoondil Student’s Movement, Fr. Sagesh Sandhiya, Thoothukudi
9. THOZHAMAI, Mr. A. Devaneyan, Chennai
10. TRRM, Mr. S. Karuppasamy, Ramanathapuram

CRE Community Clubs

ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS

Ten civil society organizations working on child protection and human rights issues at the grassroots level in different parts of the state have been approached to take up CRE programme through their child activity centers or community resource centers and adolescent girls’ groups in their communities. These CSOs have identified ten communities each, to take up CRE programme from June 2021 onwards and to form CRE clubs among the children.

Series of online consultations with the NGO partners were held by way of preparing themselves and to give them a comprehensive picture on the CRE project in communities.

Village profiles for all 125 communities have been prepared by the community based trainers (facilitators) by way of preparing the CRE project in an effective way in their communities.

All the NGOs started preparing the details of the children in their communities and these details were compiled by the project team before the start of the program.

GENDER FOCUS

The project in all its activities will make genuine efforts to have at least 50% of total participation and beneficiaries to be girl students. The project through all its actions and programmes will systematically ensure to have gender balance and promote girl child education through all its activities. Given the backdrop of the society in the above sections, it is believed that women in these communities face more violations because of society being patriarchal. Hence, the project will be implemented to address gender concerning issues within the target communities also. The module on gender for students will help in achieving this.

Children in and out of schools are participating in promoting, protecting and asserting their rights.It is a kind of outreach activity which will help children and teachers to reach the community through its various club activities.  Meaningful involvement of the students in concrete cases will deepen their understanding of human rights and make them as agents of change and strong future human rights defenders.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

The second area of our engagement with children in schools is through our proposed community engagement in human rights through our HRE children where they along with their   teachers jointly work on local human rights issues and engage with the local community to spread human rights values within the community. For this, children and teachers will be enabled to access valuable resource materials, which we plan to provide both in print /digital form. CRE clubs in communities will be functioning in 10 districts in Tamil Nadu, with the support of NGOs and respective community educators will be in charge of running the CRE clubs in the villages.

Civil Society Organizations and Movements working at the grassroots level will be one of the external stakeholders in the implementation of CRE project in some of the districts, particularly to run constitutional rights clubs in communities.