Friday, 9 February 2018

UNICEF, an agent of popularizing child right

By United Nations Children Emergency Fund {UNICEF}, is a United Nations {UN} program headquatered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers.
It was created by United Nations general assembly on the 13th of December 1946, to provide emergency food and health care to children in countries that had been devastated by world war 2. It was founded by Ludwik Rajchman and served from 1946 to 1965.
Speaking with a communication specialist and a member of UNICEF Jeffery Njoku about how child right can be popularised, he said "it is done at different levels"
He made this statement in an interview with the Echoes newspaper at Nigerian Institute of journalism {NIJ} on.... December 2017, saying the media, interpersonal communication and other methods of communication can be used to reach people about child right.
Mr Njoku also mentioned the need to create awareness about children using various publication about fact of life on what it takes to handle a child, exclusive breast feeding and taking care of minor illness. He said, "the publication has been translated to many Nigerian languages which are evenly distributed".
However, Mr Njoku expressed his opinion about sex education. He said, "parent should take charge about what to teach children about the do's and don't of sex. Teach them about life skills which include power to say No, power to know what is right or wrong and how to act o  certain situation.
Ayomidoyin owolabi.

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