{"id":2490,"date":"2019-10-04T13:25:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2019-10-04T13:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:25:05","slug":"justice-and-peace-to-embark-on-3-years-safeguarding-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/justice-and-peace-to-embark-on-3-years-safeguarding-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice and Peace Embarks on Three-Year Safeguarding Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Lestina Sanga<\/strong>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pastoral and\nBishop\u2019s Secretary of the Diocese of Karonga, Father Joseph Sikwese has urged\nproject implementation team for the Safeguarding\nthe Rights of Women and Children and Vulnerable Adults Project <\/em><\/strong>to internalize\nhard work as a norm if the project is to achieve it\u2019s intended objectives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father\nSikwese made these remarks, on 23 September 2019, during a project inception\nmeeting organized by the Justice and Peace Desk at Zutu House in Karonga. The\nJustice and Peace Desk briefed the members of staff about the project\nimplementation plan, grant agreement, budgets, audit agreements, and monitoring\nand evaluation plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmeeting was attended by members from all the three sections of the Diocese\nnamely, the Pastoral Commission, Caritas Commission and Directorate of Finance,\nInvestment and Administration. The Pastoral Commission is crucial to the\nsuccess of the third objective as the project requires the creation of Church\nstructures to safeguard rights of children and vulnerable adults within the\nChurch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal of the project is to ensure that rights of women\nand girls are respected and protected throughout the diocese. The project seeks\nto strengthen the observance of children\u2019s rights in all communities of Chitipa\nDistrict and promote the adoption and implementation of child protection\nsystems in all diocesan schools, hospitals, and parishes. The project will also\npromote the participation of rural women in in local and public decision making\nprocesses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is a response to high prevalence human rights\nviolations on women, children, and other vulnerable groups in the district. Reports\nalso shows that women are being sidelined from the decision making processes.\nChitipa, in particular, has registered cases of child labour and child\nmarriages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is a step towards the operationalization of the\nChild Protection Policy of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi. This is also in\nline with Catholic Social Teaching principles of human dignity and common good.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at the nature of the project, members recommended\nthat there is a need to network with other organizations which can help\nchildren rescued from early marriages. Names of people and organizations were\nproposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This three-year\nproject is being implemented in the areas of traditional authorities\nMwaulambia, Mwenemisuku and Kameme in Chitipa District. The project is being implemented with financial support from\nMisereor Germany to the tune of 213,000EUR equivalent to K176, 790,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is targeting 12 Group village headmen, 96\nvillages, 840 households, 840 boys, and 840 girls. The project further targets\n1,680 parents, 96 women group members, 36 volunteers and 132 families of\ntraditional leaders. About 4,835 people will directly work with the project.\nThe total number of beneficiaries in all 4 focus parishes (St Michael\u2019s, St\nJohn Paul II, Immaculate Heart of Mary and St Matthias) is 15,360.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Justice and Peace Intern <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lestina Sanga* The Pastoral and Bishop\u2019s Secretary of the Diocese of Karonga, Father Joseph Sikwese has urged project implementation team for the Safeguarding the Rights of Women and Children and Vulnerable Adults Project to internalize hard work as a norm if the project is to achieve it\u2019s intended objectives. Father Sikwese made these remarks, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice-and-peace-desk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}