Brava: ICCA technician calls for “attention and support” from parents in the campaign “More prevention less improvisation”

Psychologist and technician from the Cape Verdean Institute for Children and Adolescents (ICCA) Edite Brito calls for “greater attention and support” from parents and guardians in the campaign “More prevention less improvisation”.

This official made this appeal in an interview with Inforpress, about the programming and calendar of activities that will be carried out within the scope of the campaign.

According to Edite Brito, this campaign is a “from child to child” activity, carried out in partnership with the ICCA and the Ministry of Education, which is being worked on in the 2019/20 school year, in order to guide children about the reality of the island .

He went on to explain that children expose their problems through drawings, music, theatre, videos, paintings, carrying out their activities in classrooms and then showing them to the population.

However, to take this campaign forward, a commission was created consisting of this technician and members of the education area, where these members will work together with the teachers, giving them technical assistance and these, in turn, will guide and work with students in the classroom.

According to the same source, the teachers will create a team of about ten students, inside the classroom, to make the works, which will be disseminated from child to child, in order to have effects on children from the smallest to the oldest. advanced.

Taking into account the reality of the island, the idea is, after making the works, the children also reach out to institutions, schools, kindergartens, churches, associations, among others, working on dissemination.

Questioned about the impact that this campaign is already having on the student environment, Edite Brito advanced that there has not yet been a direct impact on the students, taking into account that they are still working with the teachers.

With regard to teachers, the same source stressed that, it seems, “they are not understanding the objective very well”, since “the way they approached the commission in the presentations, they think that the commission itself should carry out this campaign” .

Then, he took the opportunity to explain that it is not the commission, since the campaign is from child to child and they are the ones who will carry out the activities inside the classrooms to later demonstrate to the other children.

“The teachers will organize, carry out their plans and introduce this campaign in some discipline so that it can be worked on”, said the technician.

According to the technician, what she can do is provide her support at any time, to clarify doubts about the campaign, follow up and monitor the schools, but the work, she reinforced, must be done by the students themselves.

Edite Brito asks parents and guardians for “greater engagement” in this campaign, stressing that many of them are unaware of how they can manage children at home or at school.

The campaign, he added, is “the child's day-to-day experience, which can serve as a guide for this layer”.

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