The grade four students at Roch Carrier Elementary School have created cool shadow puppet plays to speak out on child rights. As part of their English Language Arts curriculum students in Mrs. Harrison's and M. Prud'homme's classes learned about the importance of having a legal identity and the impact of not having a birth certificate on children's rights to education, health care and protection. With Mrs. Harrison's guidance, students learned about the issues, created the puppets and scripts (which are based on true stories) to spread awareness and raised funds to provide birth registration to a community in Kenya. Bravo! Enjoy their stories!
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The students at Roch Carrier School have created shadow puppet plays to spread awareness of child rights and protection. Here are a few photos of their plays. Videos coming soon!
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Thursday, March 1, 12:00 - 1:00 pm (EST). Live webinar with Carleen McGuinty, World Vision's Child Protection specialist. Carleen will share experiences from her travels and answer student questions about World Vision's work in child protection. Find out how the right to a legal name, nationality and identity protects children from child labour, early marriage, early military recruitment and trafficking while improving access to education and health care. Email global_ed@worldvision.ca to register your class. Post your students' questions for Carleen by replying to the discussion: "Questions for Carleen".
Carleen explains child protection.
Carleen tackles the issue of child trafficking. In the first 6 minutes she tells the story of a boy from Myanmar who was trafficked into labour (fishing).
Children as young as five are forced to work on sugarcane plantations in the Philippines. A grant from the US government will help World Vision investigate the problem and give education opportunities to thousands of children, sustainable livelihoods for parents and safe employment for youth. Read more.
"This animated short for children tells the story of Christopher, a little boy who didn't want to be called Christopher anymore. Such a common name! When Aunty Gail from Trinidad tells him a story about a Tiger, Christopher changes his name to Tiger. But then he finds a better name. When he has trouble cashing a birthday cheque, he realizes maybe he should stick with his original name... or maybe not." Watch Christopher Changes His Name on the National Film Board site.
In some countries certain barriers make it difficult for parents to register the birth of their child.These two compelling videos reveal some of those barriers.
Stateless Dominicans tells the stories of those who are born and grow up in the Dominican Republic, but because they are of Haitian descent, they cannot obtain a legal birth certificate and are denied the rights of citizenship.
The Stateless Children of Sabah tells the story of children whose parents have migrated to Malaysia for work. The existence of these children is not recognized in their home country nor in Malaysia.
Check out the rest of the videos in this special report. Most suitable for intermediate grades.
This one-minute podcast gives a brief introduction to the importance of having a birth certificate.
(Photo by Jon Warren, World Vision)