Some participants of the CSAP Orientation. Seated far right is FDAI Program Officer Juana Paula S. Dumaguing.
The Foundation for the Development of Agusanons, Inc. (FDAI) reaches out to selected Barangay Council for the Protection of Children (BCPC) in Agusan del Sur as it broadens its Child Sexual Abuse Prevention campaign.
For the past years, FDAI, together with the Agusan del Sur Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office, the Philippine National Police – Agusan del Sur Provincial Office, has this campaign to prevent child sexual abuse. The campaign has been concentrated in Agusan Marsh Barangays, which are all covered by a project dubbed as Self-Help Approach – Children-Focused Community Development (SHA-CFCD), which is implemented by FDAI and funded by KNH. Activities in the past years only involved members of the FDAI-organized Self-Help Groups and school children. For this year, FDAI targets the involvement of the BCPCs as they are the primary organizations tasked to prevent child sexual abuse in the localities.
The first activity in furtherance of the above-mentioned is the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Orientation among members of BCPC, which is aimed at discussing the basics of CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION, the Statistics of Child Abuse in Agusan del Sur and the Salient feature of Republic Act No. 9262, AN ACT DEFINING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN, PROVIDING FOR PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR VICTIMS, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES THEREFORE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES and Republic Act 7610, AN ACT PROVIDING FOR STRONGER DETERRENCE AND SPECIAL PROTECTION AGAINST CHILD ABUSE, EXPLOITATION AND DISCRIMINATION, PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR ITS VIOLATION AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
The activity serves as the first step for the strengthening of the BCPCs that FDAI will also facilitate.