Kingsburgh Welfare creates a safer space for children
The child-protection awareness programme enables early childhood development teachers to effectively educate and care for them in a holistic way.
THE Kingsburgh Child and Family Welfare conducted a child-protection awareness programme for educators from early childhood development (ECD) centres, recently.
As part of the welfare’s ECD initiative, it invited educators from the Simunye Cluster, which consists of various ECD centres located in the nearby rural areas.
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The welfare’s social worker, Sandra Govender, said all their programmes aim to enable practitioners to effectively educate and care for children in a holistic way that enables them to grow and learn in an environment that is safe, healthy, nutritional, inclusive and stimulating.
The day focused on child protection by recognising child abuse and neglect, as well as safe practical skills that they can utilise in their everyday lessons in the classroom.
The welfare also hosts child-safety presentations at schools to teach children right from wrong, with the help of visual aids.
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Govender said child abuse is not a once-off subject but a subject that needs to be addressed and discussed on an ongoing basis.
Their intervention is based on the following principles:
- Child-centred – their needs and rights are the focus point of interventions
- Accountability – everyone who intervenes in a child’s life should be accountable for the delivery of appropriate services
- Empowerment – the resourcefulness of each child and ECD practitioner should be promoted
- Family-centred – all that they do should strengthen the family.
For more information, contact the Kingsburgh Child and Family Welfare on 031 916 2274 or at admin@kingsburghwelfare.org.za
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