Community Reparation: 900 Children in the “Eyes to the Future” Camp
As part of the community reparation program and in partnership with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the National Organization for Camps, the Entraide Nationale and the Agency for the development of the eastern region, the Advisory Council on Human Rights (CCDH) organized the second edition of the “Eyes to the Future” Camp in Mehdia, north of Rabat.This event was organized into two periods from July 2 to 13 and July 13 to 24. During each period, 440 children were received from 11 regions where the community reparation program has been applied: Al Hoceima, Hay Mohammadi (Casablanca), Ouarzazate, Errachidia, Figuig Khenifra, Khemisset, Azilal, Nador, Zagoura, Tantan. The 11 local coordination bodies of these regions participated actively in this event. Each coordination body selected 40 children and two facilitators.
The CDIFDH, on the basis of its tasks and first experience in 2006 in the field, was committed to ensure awareness/training of facilitators on human rights on the one hand, and supervision and monitoring of the conduct of workshops on the other. The objective was to strengthen the human rights approach in the various animation techniques and to disseminate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child among facilitators and children. This was to enable facilitators to run workshops and activities for children while imparting in a clear and accessible manner values of human rights provided for by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and children’s rights stipulated by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Indeed, a comprehensive program of activities was developed including very entertaining educational activities and several activities on human rights in general and children’s rights in particular. Two workshops were held on the Convention on the Rights of the Child: a workshop for fine arts and another one for theater; each one was facilitated by a special supervisor on the matter. The objective was to enable children to express themselves freely as regards the articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Several texts and drawings based on the articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child were made by children.