Awareness raising on violence against children in migration: Belgium’s experience of implementing the Become Safe Project

This webinar is aimed at giving you an overall description of the Become Safe project and an overview of the activities conducted in the frame of the project’s work package on consultations and campaigns amongst children and young people at risk.

Speakers:

Alice, Diana, Laeticia, Laith, young facilitators of the BECOME SAFE project

Four young facilitators who strongly supported the project’s implementation amongst children, teenager and parents will testify about their experience as volunteers. Each of them will give a brief overview of their profile, why they decided to volunteer and will shed a light on a specific activity that took place in the course of the project.

Emmanuelle Vacher, Defence for Children International Belgium, coordinator of the project

Emmanuelle holds a Master's degree in Public International Law and a Master's degree in International Relations and Humanitarian Action. As a project coordinator in child protection, she mainly works on violence against children in migration, child safeguarding gender-based and domestic violence. She is currently coordinating the BECOME SAFE project.

The overall objective of BECOME SAFE is to improve the protection of migrant children and young people victims or at risk of violence, and uphold their rights to assistance and quality victims care in the EU. To achieve this, the project deploys three complementary strategies to promote systemic and sustainable improvements in the protection of children and youth on the move. It does so through working hand in hand with children and young people themselves, as well as professionals in contact with them.

One of the aspects of the project was to raise awareness among children and teenagers on how to detect, prevent and react to violence that may affect them. The webinar will present DCI’s Belgium experience in implementing awareness-raising sessions.

This webinar will tackle the following points:

• General presentation of the project with a focus on awareness-raising
• The challenge of recruiting young facilitators
• Training young facilitators
• Consultation with children to identify main forms of violence
• Creating adapted awareness-raising material
• Workshops with children, youth and parents: focus on the importance of a trusting environment
• Disseminating materials: education kits as a good practice
• Q&A