Breaking the Silence (BTS) is a Child Rights based organization established by a committed group of activist to combat sexual abuse of children in Bangladesh since 1994. Child sexual abuse is a very delicate issue in the Bangladeshi context with a very less exposure, but it is probably the most traumatizing event a child had ever experiences. This activist group has initiated an issue to address which directly or indirectly affecting many children in our society in a very subtle manner. Read the rest of this entry »
April – June 2011
Community Program :
Orientation workshop with children and adults will be held on as continuation in the working areas of Breaking the Silence.
* Orientation & Follow up Session/Workshop: As a part of community program Breaking the Silence will conduct 24 Orientation & Follow up Sessions for adult & 25 sessions for children on child rights & child sexual abuse during the period of April to June 2011 at working areas community.
* Group Formation Meeting : In the second quarter of 2011, 05 Adult & 08 Children Group will be formed through the Group Formation Meeting in the working areas of BTS. The groups will take joint initiatives to the community children from sexual abuse & other forms of violence.
* Group Meeting & Coordination Meeting : The child & adult group meets within the group through group meeting. Total 57 children group meeting & 14 adult group meeting will be held in this period. On the other hand, 03 children groups coordination & 02 adult group coordination meeting and 03 children & adult coordination meeting will organize in the period April to June 2011.
* Sharing Meeting : During the period 08 Sharing Meeting will be held with Community leader, Young adult, Community Police/Security Guard, Community based Employer and Religious leaders on Child Rights, Child Sexual abuse & other forms of violence issues.
School Program:
Breaking the Silence is implementing its school based program with a special emphasis. Under the school based program BTS facilitated sharing meeting/orientation workshop with the SMC, Teachers & parent of the students and conducted the successive & follow up session with the students. In the year 2011, BTS will continue its school program in the working areas 20 high schools.
Sharing Meeting/Orientation Workshop : In this period BTS will organize 07 Sharing Meeting/Orientation Workshop with School Management Committee (SMC) & School Teachers and also 07 Sharing Meeting/Orientation Workshop with Parents of the students on Child Rights, Child Sexual abuse & other forms of violence issues. On the other hand BTS will organize a Coordination Meeting with the SMC, Teacher & Parents of the students within the mentioned period.
Successive & Follow up Session : From April to June 2011, BTS will conduct 20 Successive Session & 20 Follow up Session with the school students on Child Rights, Life Skills, Child Sexual abuse & other forms of violence issues and how they can say ‘No’ to protect themselves from abusive environment.
Training Workshop:
BTS has been organized training workshop with Adolescent Boys & Girls, School Teacher, Religious Leader, Staff of the Partner & Networking Partner Organizations.
Training Workshop for NGOs: During the second quarter of 2011 BTS will organize 01 Capacity Building Training workshop as ToF for the representatives of the Partner & Networking Organizations on Child Rights, Development, Life Skills, Child Sexual Abuse & other related issues.
Training Workshop for School Teachers : In this period Breaking the Silence will organize 01 training workshop for the working areas School Teachers on Child Rights, Child Sexual abuse & other forms of violence issues and how they disseminate the message to the students by using window method.
Training Workshop for Religious Leaders: Breaking the Silence will organize 03 training workshop for the working areas Religious Leaders. There are 02 training workshop will be organized on ‘Khudba Guide (a hand book on child rights in the light of Islam) & its implementation procedure’ and another 01 on ‘How they can work as Mobilizer & Monitor the child rights violation’.
Sharing Meeting / Workshop:
BTS has been organized Sharing meeting / workshop with Govt. Officials, Local Elected Body, Civil Society, Law Enforcement agency on mentioned issues for strengthening community protection initiatives. On the other thing is that these groups also create pressure to the Govt. to address the issues in the related fields.
In this period BTS will organize 03 sharing meeting with Media Personnel & Cultural activist, Police and Local Elected Bodies (Union Parishad) in the working areas.
Advocacy :
Series of meeting with NCTB (Chairman, Member & Others)
Workshop on Protection Education for Children in Curriculum& textbook: Cotemporary Thought
আমরা আনন্দের সাথে জানাচ্ছি যে বিটিএস এর ওয়েব সাইটে বাংলা সংযোজনের কাজ চলছে। আশা করছি অতি দ্রুত আমাদের ওয়েব সাইটে ইংরেজির পাশপাশি বাংলাতে তথ্য প্রকাশ করতে পারবো, যা দেশের ব্যাপক জনগোষ্টির কাছে সহজে বোধগম্য হবে এবং আমাদের প্রচেষ্টা সার্থক হবে।