Launch of the educational curriculum programme to prevent sexual abuse of children || Newspapers (Arabic)

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed yesterday between the Minister of Education, Mr. Hassan Diab KidProof association for the Middle East and North Africa represented by Maitre Darine Masri, and the Chair of the Board of BLOM bank Mr. Saad al Azhari heralding the launch of the Protected programme within the framework of an initiative to protect children from sexual abuse (c.f KidProof Safety: sexual harassment will become part of the educational curriculum on 22.09.2012, and Pedagogical workshop on protection of children from violence and harassment on 11.09.2012).  The programme is funded by BLOM and is implemented by the Ministry of Social Affairs.  The Centre for Educational Research Development had for its part adapted the curriculum to the local context of Lebanon taking into consideration the educational requirements as well as the overall spiritual, social and cultural values prevailing in the country.
Masri noted that the purpose of this programme is to mainstream the issues of physical and intellectual safety into the educational curriculum thus helping to protect children and reinforcing their self respect and their respect to others.  She reiterated that the programme will involve the production of educational material for all scholastic levels including parents’ and teachers’ handbooks as well as the implementation of a series of teachers’ training, both onsite and online and focusing on physical and personal safety, ethics, citizenship, online safety, physical and mental wellbeing.
Source: Al-Nahar 16 January 2013