Prishtina, 06 May- The non-governmental organization “Syri i Vizioni” within the project “Together 4 children rigts- Child Protection”, supported by Save the Children, held the workshop with the council of the primary and lower secondary school “Ismail Qemali” in Pristina for drafting the code of conduct.
The drafting of the Code of Conduct for this school has been described by the governing council as something very necessary for their school to create an additional mechanism for establishing order within the school and respecting children’s rights, as well as empowering them and other documents that the school has. Also, the governing council highly appreciated the work being done by the NGO Syri i Vizioni and Save the Children.
In addition to the code of conduct for this school and other schools, workshops will also be held to strengthen the mechanisms for children’s rights, as well as trainings with students, on various topics, in which the school council (teachers) will also participate , the parents’ council and the students’ council) influencing the awareness of students, teachers and parents themselves about children’s rights and addressing violence in the existing mechanisms for children’s rights.
The project “Together 4 children rights- Child protection” aims to develop a system for monitoring and reporting violence against children, creating favorable policies for improving the protection of children in Kosovo that are in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and EU standards.
This project is being implemented in ten primary and lower secondary schools in five municipalities of Kosovo: in Pristina “Naim Frasheri” and “Ismail Qemali”; in Peja “Ramiz Sadiku” and “Xhemail Kada”; in Gjakovë “Mustafa Bakia” and “Zekeria Rexha”; in Ferizaj “Tefik Çanga” and “Jeronim De Rada”, and in Mitrovica in the schools “Bedri Gjina” and Andon Zako Çajupi”. The beneficiaries of this project are the students, their parents and the teachers of these schools as well as the institutions responsible for the protection and respect of children’s rights.
