'Protecting Childhood: Girls Security Movement' Public-Wellbeing Program Launched

A range of different members participate in China Women's Development Foundation. [CWDF]

The "Protecting Childhood: Girls Safety Movement" public-wellness program was formally launched on March 19, 2015 in a joint effort from the China Women's Development Foundation (CWDF) and Ziding Website.

"Protecting Childhood: Girls Safety Movement" is the first public-wellness project established by the CWDF's "Mother China • Traditional Chinese Culture Development Fund" since it was founded in late 2014. The program aims to teach girls about personal safety and to strengthen their safety awareness through education, training, experience and prevention, based on the girls' previous experiences and issues with sexual assault and personal injury, ultimately improving girls' awareness and abilities in self-protection.

Since 2014, the primary and middle school girls from four counties in Hebei, in the north part of China and Guizhou — an inland province in southwest China — have been given a "Girls Security Booklet," which aims at provided girls with information and tips for ensuring their own safety and protection. These booklets will continue to be distributed to the provinces with the largest number of left-behind children — children whose parents left them in their rural hometown to go work in the city — and then, eventually, to the whole country.

In the future, "Protecting Childhood: Girls Safety Movement" will involve the participation of more women from all walks of life, to get their support in different kinds of activities. It will also allow more children to grow up healthily through gathering the strength and resources to construct a cooperative "safety and wellbeing" platform involving a wide range of different members of the community.

(Women of China)