Description
The Child Rights Education Project (CRE) is a five (5) year project from 2019 to 2024 supported by Kindernothilfe. The project’s overall objective is that children’s rights violations are significantly reduced in the target communities by end of 2024. The project supports six communities in Lusaka, Kabwe, and Kapiri Mposhi namely Garden, Kamanga, Katondo, Makululu, Ndeke, and Kashitu.
Through the project, Zambia Civic Education Association (ZCEA) has been working not only to make children’s rights widely known to both children and adults but also to strengthen accountability for, and build consensus on children’s rights at family, schools, community, district, and national levels.
ZCEA has an MOU with the Ministry of Education which was signed in 2002. The organization has been helping schools to establish Child Rights Clubs in schools across the country since August 2002 . The Child Rights Clubs are platforms through which children learn and discuss their rights and responsibilities. Please contact us with any assistance you may need in forming Child Rights Clubs in your schools.
Newsroom
Adults and children from Lusaka, Kabwe, and Kapiri Mposhi presented findings from the monitoring of children’s rights they have been doing in 2022 to local-level policymakers and public offices such as DEBS and DHO. The children also used the opportunity to lobby for improved child-related social services.
Children from nineteen schools across Zambia shared how they will continue to learn and enjoy their rights through the annual child rights club Jamboree.