Kids Safe Panchayat
There is a grama panchayat in Kerala called Mararikulam South in Alappuzha district where the children are cent percent safe.
At a time when increasing number of crimes and violence against children are reported there is good news. There is a grama panchayat in Kerala called Mararikulam South in Alappuzha district where the children are cent percent safe. The credit for this achievement goes to a comprehensive gender project launched in the panchayat during February 2012.
Under the project the children under the age of 16 are taught abou tthe likely dangers they may face from the people and the methods to secure them themselves. People at large in the panchat were also given classes to avoid and handle untoward incidents.
Before the ‘children safe project’ was launched a survey was conducted among 4681 children and women from that a shocking result was emerged. Out of 4681 around 60 per cent (2804 in number) were victims of one kind or other. Mobile phone was the villain in the case of 22 per cent.