During the month of November Roots Research Center have cooperated with Ms. Protopapa and ISA students on a European project called Speak up! The aim of the project was:
• to empower children in circumstances or with characteristics that make them particularly vulnerable, by demonstrating how these children can be heard and how their voices can be taken seriously,
• to ensure the views of children are heard by policy makers, by passing on children`s message EU leaders and in particular providing an input to the development of the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child and to the EU`s work on tackling child poverty and social inclusion, but also to national policy makers,
• to improve the practice and support the development of a culture of children`s participation, by developing tools for children’s participation methodologies, in particular vulnerable groups of children,
• to strengthen mutual learning across EU Member States and the exchange between children and organizations, by providing an opportunity to exchange views on children’s experiences and how children`s voices are heard elsewhere in Europe.
The children took part at two-days activities on the Rights of the Child, coordinated by members of the organization and in cooperation with the school’s counseling psychologist and reports were sent to EU. Lately, the offices of Eurochild, partner to this program, announced that the photos from ISA students will be the cover page of the final program-seminar on the 25th of September in Brussels.
