Network for Children's Rights
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
The Network cooperates with the UNICEF Office in Greece for the implementation and promotion of the U-Report in our country. The aim is to strengthen young people’s participation in democratic governance and consultation and to enable them to share their views on issues affecting them and their communities through monthly polls. The purpose of U-Report is to foster a sense of active participation among teenagers and young people aged 14-25 and to integrate their voices into the policy-making and implementation process.
In the month of July, U-Report Greece participates in the global poll “What do you know about the conflicts raging in the world”.
For this purpose, we encourage you to encourage the children in your structure to register on the U-Report Greece platform and share their views on issues that concern them as well as to participate in the discussion circles organized by the Adolescent Network based on the questions and results of polls. The summer period offers limited opportunities for activities for children and young people living in structures, so their participation in workshops will fill their free time with quality. In addition, it will give them the opportunity to visit different places and socialize with people outside the structure.
It is possible for the workshops – discussion groups to take place either at your place or at the Adolescent Network’s place (Konstantinoupoleos 189) and will last 2 hours. During the workshops, the platform will be presented to those teenagers and young people who wish to register on it, and will be followed by an experiential workshop by the Adolescent Network team. The themes of the workshops are: youth participation in society, the inclusion of refugees and immigrants in Greek society, the effects of the climate crisis, the effects of war.
Two workshops are planned for the month of August on the following dates:
August 1, 18:00 – 20:00
August 3, 18:00 – 20:00
Information about the program
U-Report is a UNICEF platform launched in 2011 and used by more than 21 million children and youth in 88 countries. The platform gives young people the opportunity to express their views on political and social issues that concern them by hosting monthly polls on topics such as their expectations of local authorities, mental and physical health, childhood obesity, the climate crisis and more .
Teenagers and young people can register on the U-Report platform, completely free and anonymously, and answer the polls through the popular, in Greece, messaging application –Viber, but also through Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp. Whenever a poll starts, users will receive notifications on the social media they have chosen to sign up with. The purpose of the U-Report is to act as a data collection tool that can help local, regional and state decision makers create policies and strategies that will contribute to a better quality of life for adolescents and young people and promote children’s rights.
