VIDIYAL NEWS
02.03.2024 – Mothers Picnic
03.03.2024 – FCMRP Election Planning Meeting
09.03.2024 – mothers meet
09.03.2024 – A day in Bus Library – Ambethkar Nagar
09.03.2024 – Managing Committee Meeting
10.03.2024 – Tamil Forum
16.03.2024-17.03.2024 – Staff Picnic at Trivandrum
17.03.2024 – Thoorigai Drawing Forum
23.03. 2024 – Managing Committee Meeting

VCRM NETWORKING

Networkings

Networking

Opportunities for child networking have been provided at Vidiyal since 1997. Chandran represented Vidiyal Vaanavil working children’s forum at the consultative workshop organized by Concerned for Working Children at Kundapur, Karnataka. This led to the evolution of NMWC at the national level and Vidiyal Child Rights Movement at local level.

The children of Vidiyal Child Rights Movement have been constantly interacting with other children’s organizations and became founding members of the CR4WSF and FCMRP in 2004 and 2006 respectively.

Apart from contributing to the formation of structured networking, the children of Vidiyal Child Rights Movement have participated in the following arenas which widened their horizon.

* 2005 Ramesh, Rajive Gandhi and MeherNisha participated in the Children’s consultation for preparing the Tamilnadu Election Children’s Manifesto at Chennai – organised by CACL Tamilnadu and Pudhucherry
* 2005 R.Ranjith Kumar, Meenakshi and Murugananthamparticiapated in the Children’s consultation at Gujarat – organised by Balsena and Shaishav
* 2007 Ten children participated in the Children’s Consultation on child protagonism at ECC, Bangalore. Ranjith was one among the few child facilitators which brought laurels to the Vidiyal Child Rights Movement – organised by Concerned for Working Children, Speech and ECC.
* 2007 Preethi and Pandithurai participated in the National Children’s Conference at Odisa – organized by CACL
* 2008 Kulandhaiammal and Jeyakumar participated in the state level consultation for preparing a children’s alternate report – organized by ICCW
* 2008 Bharath Kumar, Kulandhaiammal, Abdul Rehman and Loganayaki participated in the 1st National Children’s Consultation at Gujarat – organized by Balsena and Shaishav
* 2008 Bharath Kumar and Preethi participated in the Tamilnadu state children’s alternate report process and Bharath was elected as one of the child researchers – organized by CACL and CACT Tamilnadu.
* 2008 Ganesan and S.Manikandan participated in the National Youth festival at Odisa – Organized by National Youth Development department
* 2009 Preethi, Ganesan, Nandhini, Abu, S.Manikandan and Kulandhaiammal participated in the International Conference on Millennium Development Goals and Child Protection, sponsored by UNICEF and UGC held at Ernakulam, Kerala.
* 2009 Master. Bharath Kumar represented Vidiyal Child Rights Movement in the National Convention on Right to Education and Abolition of Child Labour organised in Chennai and at New Delhi by the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) sponsored by ILO and UNICEF.
* 2009 Ten children participated in the National Children’s Festival organised by the Government of Pudhucherry during the month of January 2009.
* Master.Jeyakumar and Ms.Palaneeswari represented Vidiyal Child Rights Movement at the Civil Society Summit organised at Bangalore, Karnataka in January 2010.
* 2010 January Ms.Preethi and Master.Anbu represented Vidiyal Child Rights Movement at the UNICEF supported state level consultation on “Children in Governance” at Thirukalukundram in which Ms.Palaneeswari played an effective role as a young facilitator.
* Master.Arunraj represented Vidiyal Child Rights Movement in the consultation organised by UNICEF on “Listening to the voices of adolescents” at New Delhi in February 2010. Mr.D.Arockiam, Programme Director accompanied Arunraj for this meeting.
* 2010 a group of children and adults came from Andhra Pradesh for an exposure visit to Vidiyal and Vidiyal Child Rights Movement to learn the good practices in Child Participation.
* 2011 June 3rd National Children’s Consultation, at Mumbai, hosted by YUVA, BalAthikarSangarshSangatan (BASS) a child led organization. Theme “Moving together for Experimenting our learning” Our children Jeyakumar, Loganayaki, Balamurugan and Sangeetha represented Vidiyal Child Rights Movement at this consultation
* 2011 October, our children participated in the documentary film prepared by Media matters for Unicef in which they raised their voice for their fellow children on matters related to child participation.
* 2012 January National Children’s Consultation on “ Envisioning Social Change through Practicing Child Participation” organized by YUVA. Our children Selvakumar, Loganayaki, ShanmugaSundaram and Sivaranjani represented the children movement.
* 2012 May, a group of representatives from BalAthikarSangarshSangatan (BASS) a Mumbai based children network came and visited VCRM on an exposure visit along with YUVA the facilitating organization.
* 2012 June Tamilarasi represented Vidiyal Child Rights Movement at the press meet organized by Unicef at Chennai and spoke for the rights of the children from excluded communities and critiqued the plan document.
* 2013 June National Children’s Consultation on “ Creating a safe and enabling environment for children to ensure Child Protection through Child Participation” held at Mumbai, organized by YUVA, Our children Sangeetha, Muthupandi, Surya Narayanan and Nandheeswari represented Vidiyal Child Rights Movement at this consultation.
* 2013 November Consultation on Christian education and children at risk at Chennai, organized by NCCI-SYNOD. Our children Bagam Priya, Durga, Mahalakshmi, Sonaimuthu and Manikandan served as panelists and also they critiqued the action plan. They also participated in the other sessions at par with the adults.

• 2014 May, Sivaranjani, a child from Vidiyal Child Rights Movement had been elected as the secretary of the Federation of Children’s Movements for Right to Participation (FCMRP). In the same year she represented FCMRP at the state consultation of Right to Education organized by Tamilnadu RTE Forum.
• In 2015 children of Vidiyal Child Rights Movement participated in a study titled “Children and Young People’s views on Public Expenditure to Realize Children’s Rights” done for UNCRC Committee, facilitated by Centre for Children’s Rights, Queen’s University, Belfast
• 2015, three of our children Ms.Nandeeswari, Ms.Venkateswari and Master Sonaimuthu have served as the young facilitators at the state level children’s consultations on ‘Participation of Children in the Formulation of Tamilnadu State Child Policy’. They are much appreciated for the facilitation skills. Ms.A.Durga and Master.K.Gopal represented VCRM in the children’s consultation at the South Zone. Ms.M.Sivaranjani represented VCRM at the state consultation and prepared Children’s Manifesto for the Tamilnadu Assembly Elections.
• 2015, Four of our children R.Praveen, P.Nandheeswari, P.Sendurapandi and C.Priya represented VCRM at the national children’s consultation held at Ahmadabad, Gujarat, organized by National Forum for Children’s Participation (NFCP) of which Sakthi – Vidiyal is a founding member.

• 2016, ‘South Asia Initiative for Ending Violence against Children’ (SAIEVAC) is the Apex Body of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) created with a vision that all children, girls and boys, throughout South Asia enjoy their right to an environment free from all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation, neglect and discrimination. While SAIEVAC comprises of Government Functionaries, there is also a parallel body namely National Action and Coordinating Group (NACG). NACG has also been established in each South Asia Country (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka). The purpose is to strengthen inter-agency work including with governments and children groups to end violence against children. NACG is composed of UN agencies, multi-lateral and bi-lateral agencies, NGOs, civil society organizations, children and young people’s group. Sakthi – Vidiyal is a member of NACG and two of our children Mastere.K.Gopal and Miss.R.Sasikala represented Vidiyal Child Rights Movement and Tamilnadu State at the National Consultation on Ending Violence Against Children at Guwahati Assam organised by NACG. Their meaningful participation added strength to the consultation. Mr.D.Arockiam, our Programme Director accompanied the children and helped them with translations as they were the only children speaking Tamil at the consultation.

• 2019 CRC 30, Status of Children in Tamilnadu. Four of our children M.Dhanalakshmi, S.Sophia, M.Rohith Sakthi and G.Muthulakshmi represented VCRM and made valuable inputs to the whole process.
• 2019 November, M.Dhanalakshmi was elected as the member of the state committee of Federation of Children’s Movement for Right to Participation (FCMRP). She got elected by the state committee and represented FCMRP at the National event on CRC 30 at New Delhi.
• 2019 November, M.Sangeetha and M.Rohith Sakthi represented VCRM at the consultation on developing state policy for adolescent children, organized by Rajive Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD).
• NATIONAL LEVEL CONVERGENCE MEETING WITH CHILDREN ON ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
On 31.03.21 the above consultation was organized by National Action & Coordination Group for Ending Violence Against Children, India (NACG-EVAC India) on a semi virtual platform. The Tamilnadu State Process was facilitated by Sakthi – Vidiyal. Ms.S.Sophia, Master.A.Hariprasad, Ms.M.Jeyasri and Ms.G.Muthulakshmi represented Vidiyal Child Rights Movement in this consultation.
• ‘Children – Ambassadors of Change’ 2020
‘Children: Ambassadors of Change’ had representatives of unions and organizations of working children and adolescents from New Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Rohith Sakthi represented Vidiyal Child Rights Movement and joined hands with other working adolescents in preparing a petition demanding attention and Child Rights friendly response from the state.

• National Children’s Consultation on Ending Violence Against Children organized by NACG India November 2020
Our Children Muthulakshmi andRohith Sakthi Participated and Muthulakshmi got elected to represent Tamilnadu at the children’s consultation organized by SAIEVAC.
• South Asian Children’s Consultation organized by SAIEVAC
Muthulakshmi represented in the consultation and her one minute video was telecasted which gained great attention for Ending Violence Against Children.
• CHILD PROTAGONISM – RIGHT TO EQUITY IN EDUCATION
The President of Vidiyal Child Rights Movement, a Child Led Organization, facilitated by Sakthi – Vidiyal, Ms.S.Sophiya advocated for Children’s Right to Equity Education in a state platform for the Protection of Education’ on the 4th July 2021. Though it was through an online platform she explained her arguments in favour of Right to Equity Education and how the unequal and unjust competition in the field of education further excludes children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

• National Children’s Consultation on Ending Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation organized by NACG – EVAC India (add image)
On the 8th and 9th of January 2022, child representatives from 20 voluntary organizations/children’s organizations across nine states of India came together and contemplated on the issue of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (CSA&E) and drafted a children’s charter/manifesto by using the score card on CSAE& SDGs, their recommendation in the previous national consultation and developed a plan to address Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation. 15 children from Vidiyal Child Rights Movement participated in this process and shared their recommendations and score card in the virtual platform.
• Universal Periodical Review (UPR) Organized by the Forum for Promotion of Child Participation (FPCP) Tamilnadu and Puducherry (image)
The UPR is a mechanism used by the UN to improve everybody’s human rights. In the UPR, the overall human rights situation of everyone living in every country in the world is examined by every other country! It is an opportunity for children and adults to participate and make their voices heard.
On the 20th & 21st February 2022 an orientation on Universal Periodical Report (UPR) process was organized. Four children namely P.Kabilan, M.Nivetha, K.Janarthanan and P.Durga Sakthi represented Vidiyal Child Rights Movement. After the consultation, the four representatives organized a Children’s Consultation at Vidiyal Child Rights Movement on 27th February, 2022 and compiled the presentations.