In order to create a healthy environment for children amid COVID-19 threat, child and youth participation, among others, is instrumental and play important role in this process. Therefore, trained child peer educators of the project “Integrated Program to Support Poor and Vulnerable Children and Families through the Development of their Livelihoods and Political Participation” conducted home-based awareness raising on Ecological Child Rights (ECR) and integrated educational messages on COVID-19.
The purpose of conducting this awareness raising session are to increase the understanding of community members on ecological child rights and contribute to the creation of an enabling environment for the realization of this right. This is one of the main activities of the project co-financed by tdh Germany-BMZ and implemented by Vulnerable Children Assistance Organization (VCAO) in Prey Kabas and Angkor Borey district of Takeo province, Cambodia, from May 2019 to April 2022.