Safe Touch and Unsafe Touch Project
Gravittus FoundationACHIEVED MILESTONE
Our Gravittus Foundation’s most important ‘Good Touch Bad Touch’ (Safe and Unsafe Touch) achieved Milestone today; As we crossed more than 4 Lakh students under this project. It’s an achievement today as we completed 4,04,957 students from 1,095 schools under the guidance of our Gravittus Foundation’s Founder President, Usha Kakade.
Good Touch Bad Touch project objective is to spread awareness amongst school children of Pre-primary, Primary and Secondary children regarding the possible threats of child sexual abuse, recognize the incidences of unwanted touch, learn to prevent themselves and report such behaviour to their safe spaces. It is to understand issues related to the security of these children with the respective subject and act as a referral system. We are having an expert team of counsellors and coordinators who execute the project. 45 min awareness session use to take place with the respective school children group.
Gravittus Foundation’s main focus is on most vulnerable group of society and they are women and children. Hence foundation identified the most sensitive issue of the society as well. Primary focus of foundation was on health of women and children. The preventive approach is mostly used in the projects. Foundation, after two to three years of comprehensive study about the issue of child sex abuse, finally came out with decision of directly working with school children. In the view of “Prevention is always better than cure”, foundation finalized its strategy to create awareness at mass level in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad area. The medium to reach out to these children identified by the foundation was public and private schools. Sufficient period of two to three years of study from secondary sources helped the foundation to draw out the requirements that create real benefits.
“ Objective of the project is to spread the awareness related to Safe touch – Unsafe touch amongst school children studying from Nursery to 8th std. and to understand issues related to the security of these children with the respective subject and act as a referral system. This project launched on 6th January 2017 with the hands of our President Mrs. Usha Kakade.”
Safe Touch and Unsafe Touch is an important issue for every Children right from Childhood to the onstage of Teenage
Under this project, we are creating awareness amongst children through various methods and understanding language according to their age-group. We are conducting sessions with respect to Preprimary, Primary and Secondary section.For this project, our team searched for the private schools as well as for the resource persons who are experts in this subject. Initially we were conducting this project with private and public schools of PMC and PCMC and now with Pune Zilla Parishad schools. Girls and Boys who express their experiences to our experts’ team, then our team act as a referral agency. And, we refer them to Child line or any other NGO working on this delicate issue.
‘SAFE TOUCH AND UNSAFE TOUCH PROJECT’ – A GRAVITTUS FOUNDATION INITIATIVE
SAFE TOUCH AND UNSAFE TOUCH PROJECT – No. of Children Covered
SAFE TOUCH AND UNSAFE TOUCH PROJECT – No. of Schools Covered
SUMMARY :
Gravittus Foundation believes that a society should reside on peace and justice. Thus to promote peaceful and inclusive society for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and to build effective accountable and inclusive institution at all levels, Gravittus Foundation found it essential to educate all at grass root level itself. Hence organized various programs for school going children explaining the term of end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children. Sustainable development goals targets analogical goal in terms of stabilizing the awareness in society. Gravittus Foundation successfully carried this program under the name “Safe Touch Unsafe Touch”.
