District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) secretary and senior Civil Judge Y. Hemalatha on Monday said that atrocities against women and girl child abuse could be effectively tackled by undertaking awareness campaigns to improve literacy among the vulnerable sections.
Inaugurating the campaign on ‘Destination Unknown - Children on the Move’, a social awareness programme launched by the Rural Organisation for Poverty Eradication Services (ROPES) and Don Bosco Navjeevan at the CMSS meeting hall here, Ms. Hemalatha said that apart from literacy programmes for adult women and girl children should also be imparted with training on martial arts to protect themselves. “Literacy campaign will go a long way in creating awareness among the youth about atrocities against women and girl children. Such campaigns will lead to early prevention of child rights violations,” she said. ROPES chairman K. Dhana Sekararn said that the organisation aimed at doing more research on the root causes of child abuse and violation of child rights and ways to fix these problems. As part of the campaign, social and media talks, workshops, seminars on child rights were being organised.
Chittoor Mayor Katari Anuradha and ZP Chairperson Geervani Prakash released the campaign posters on the occasion.
Senior staff of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), members of forums working for women and child rights took part in the programme.
