Children have a Voice! Sept 15, 2022
I have 2 exciting things to talk about today - something that just happened last week, and something that is about to happen next week! First, what happened last week - the "Keeping Children Safe" Conference. This is an annual 3 day (online) conference with NGOs and professionals around the world who care about child safeguarding, ensuring children are safe and their rights are known and respected. This year, there was a session that featured some VOH children who talked about the Child Safeguarding policy and practice in their VOH centres. They shared what they learned about the VOH child safeguarding policy, how it impacts them, what can be done to improve it and more. It's really exciting for me (and I hope you too) to see children understand their rights as children, feel empowered to take action, and report they feel they safe when they come to VOH school everyday. My favourite parts were when Blessing said she learned what her rights are, she realized VOH childr