SUPACA youth advocates volunteered to help
Balay Bata Center teachers report that the roof is leaking and the playground area is being used as parking for jeepneys and motorcycles or as site for cock fighting.
We made the decision to claim the space for our children, so we solicited funds for materials to build a perimeter fence, for the security of our pupils' vegetable garden and playground.
It was the SUPACA youth advocates who volunteered to help out with the digging of the foundation of the fence and it contributing what work they can do to put up the fence little by little.
We still need to solicit much-needed funds to fix the leaking roof, but we are grateful for whatever blessings we have received.
SUPACA helps
SUPACA youth advocates who volunteered to help
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SUPACA youth advocates who volunteered to help
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Balay Bata Center
Daily Activities of Pupils
FREE PLAY
Foster the children’s imagination, provide them avenue for interaction and develop their socio-emotional skill. Forty (40) minutes getting to know you using the following games: name chain games, chasing games, musical chairs and duck walk.
MEETING TIME
Allow the children to interact with the teacher and their fellow classmates, provide them the opportunity to sing song with actions and upon the guidance of the teacher, give them the chance to be oriented with various concepts such as the love of God and country, weather, dates and numbers.
CIRCLE TIME
Story telling- to give the children opportunity to listen stories to develop their listening skills, language and vocabulary, enhance their attention span and memory recall and inculcate values. Children learned the following moral values. Honesty, thriftiness, savings, hard work, helpful, caring, concerned with other person in need, humility friendship and love.
LESSON TIME
This is the formal parts of the child’s learning inside the classroom of which the teacher introduces to the class the lesson for the day. It starts with board work exercises and for mastery and evaluation. Motivation and presentation of lesson proper, scribbling – exercised their hands in preparation in proper holding of pencils and sandbox for the preparation of writing.
Children learned proper ways of holding pencils and crayons on writing and colorings. Children identify the kinds of line and they were start in simple writing. Children can already identify the phonetic sounds as well as the vowel and consonant letters. Children can already identify the different shapes, primary and secondary colors and counting from 0-20. Children identify the three basic food groups- Go! Grow! Glow! Children already identify the different parts of the body and actual demonstration using the five senses.
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Merry Christmas
The Share A Child Movement Inc board, staff, benefactors, scholars and SUPACA youth advocates
join in wishing you a very merry christmas and the happiest new year!
"Many things can wait, but the CHILD cannot!"
How do we protect our children?
Promoting Child Rights Protection
The Republic Act 9344 known as the Juvenile Justice Welfare Act of 2006 celebrated 10 years of its existence. This law recognizes the right of children to assistance, including proper care and nutrition, and special protection from all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty and exploitation, and other conditions prejudicial to their development. It further defines a child at risk and a child in conflict with the law. This law also points to the minimum age of criminal liability: A child fifteen (15) years of age or under at the time of the commission of the offense shall be exempt from criminal liability.
Children are often used in drug trafficking nowadays because of this exemption. Hence, some call for a lowering of this minimum age so that children committing heinous crimes can be put behind bars. Child rights advocates insist that in these instances, children are victims too.
The Philippines signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Since signing the UN CRC, the government is obliged to recognize the full spectrum of human rights for all children and strengthen efforts in enforcing the rights of children. Different branches of government call for increasing programs that protect children's rights:
The Department of Interior and Local Government urges barangays to promote children's rights in the search for child-friendly barangays.
The Department of Education (Dep Ed) issued a memorandum on its child protection policy, policy and guidelines on protecting children in school from abuse, violence, exploitation, discrimination, bullying and other forms of abuse. Dep Ed also strengthens protection for the reintegration of children at risk and children in conflict with the law.
The Department of Justice created a Committee for the Special Protection of Children.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development has rescued over 150 victims of webcam sex tourism and other forms of child abuse.
In the UN CRC, the guiding principles of the Convention include non-discrimination, adherence to the best interests of the child, the right to life, survival and development, and the right to participate. In our own ways, we can also promote children's rights and help in the reintegration of children at risk and children in conflict with the law. Questions that need to be answered:
1. What are the different approaches to reintegrate children at risk and children in conflict with the law?
2. On prevention: suggest ways on how we can keep children our of trouble and out of harm's way.
3. What enabling environment can allow children to claim their own rights?
Notice
NOTICE:
Ms Jocelyn Espina and Ms Vivian Calupe are no longer affiliated with The Share A Child Movement, Inc and are not authorized to transact business in behalf of The Share A Child Movement, Inc.
My grandmother's legacy
In the first quarter of 2014, we lost both my Lola Sising and my auntie Nina. This left TSACMI crippled, with doubts that the programs and activities would continue. Today I have taken auntie Nina's place as Executive Director. I hope that the people who are part of the organization as members, benefactors, staff, alumni and beneficiaries, would continue to believe in our cause and would continue to support our efforts to uplift the lives of our children in communities, so that we may make Cebu a better place to live in.
This is The Share A Child Movement, Inc - my Lola Sising's legacy. Help me keep it alive and serving!