Penpushing in conjuction with Terre des homes, a foreign Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and Child Protection Network (CPN) is organizing a two day workshop to train journalists on Child Protection reportage.
The workshop for selected journalists is also aim to motivate a pool of media practitioners to follow the implementation of CORAL project, create a Network of Journalist for Child Protection and create network of Journalists who will work together for the protection of children within and outside the country.
A statement from the Management of Penpushing stated further that, the workshop is scheduled to hold between Wednesday 13th – Thursday 14th June, 2018 at Quarry Imperial Hotel, Abeokuta , Ogun State Capital between hours of 8.30am-3.00pm daily.
‘The workshop will be carried out in two days. It will be characterized by training session on CORAL project, child protection, child migration and mobility. There will also be group work on CORAL advocacy and communication plan as well as how the planned Network of Journalists for Child Protection can be functional’, the statement reads.
The specific objectives include; Improve participants’ knowledge on CORAL project, share the advocacy and communication plan of CORAL project with the participants, gain the attention of media organization to develop topics around the protection of migrant children, improve participants’ knowledge on child migration, child mobility, child rights and the Protective Accompaniment of Children and create a Network of Journalist for Child Protection.
The statement further added that, participants are drawn from various media houses such as Television Stations, Radio Stations, Print Media (Newspapers) and Online News platforms.
