WOMEN ADVANCEMENT
MAEC in collaboration work with its partners intends to address the challenges by influencing- education policies to children whereby 1205 children are were facilitated to go school on the year 2009/2010.Also MAEC intends to eliminate challenges that faces women, children and gender human rights. Also MAEC intends to reduce the impact of Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS through the mobilization of community.
Major Alliance Education Centre (MAEC) was been enforcing the education to both genders that is boys and girls. That is because some of the communities are not regarding the education to girls. It needs the gender mobilization.Gender in education falls under MDG3 and gender equality. Also the achievement of primary education to all children is a universal goal.Millenium Development Goal no 2 which aims that by 2015 children every where, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. Primary education which falls under MDG goal 2,and our formal goal in Tanzania i.e. MKUKUTA Cluster 2 which falls under MDG 1,this distinction tends to be maintained in policy, strategy and practice. From the study’s findings, there is a clear connection household poverty and access to education. All in all our organization deals much with education and advocacy. Therefore by promoting education to girl child will be the achieving of the Millenium Development Goals, i.e. Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education, in its target 2. which ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling, Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women, which in its target 3A to: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 and the poverty eradication MDG 1.MAEC believes that by giving the education to girl children will enforce all Millennium Development Goals to be achieved since women are the once having the high responsibilities in the community than men.
Also MAEC was been educating the community members against the women discrimination through the community mobilization, that is because MAEC guarantees equality of all people to the enjoyment of their civil and political rights and expressly prohibit gender based discrimination. The term discrimination in MAEC means affording different treatment to different persons on various grounds including sex.
Therefore we raise our voice to other activism organizations in the World to join us in demanding the women rights, that is rights to work, right to education, right to health etc.
Child Protection Policy.
A child according to the purpose of Major Alliance Education Center’s (MAEC) protection policy (herein referred to as the policy), is any human being under the age of 18 years. Or a child is defined as any person who is below the age of 18.Accordingly, this definition applied in protection of child’s rights and welfare/interests.
According to MAEC protection policy is as follows:
v A child for the purposes of Child protection policy and procedures is any human being under the age of 18 years.
v Child protection policy finds basis in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1990(herein referred to as CRC) which the united Republic of Tanzania ratified in 1991.The CRC Article 3(2) states.
State parties undertake to ensure the child such protection and care as is necessary for his or her well-being, taking into account the right and duties of his or her parents, legal guardians and other individuals legally responsible for him or her ,and to this end, shall take all appropriate legislative and administrative measures.
A child Abuse consists of any thing which individuals, institutions, or processes do or fail to do which directly or indirectly harm children or damages their prospects of safe and healthy development into adulthood.
I. Extra-familial abuse includes child labor such as child domestic work,prostitution,displacement,abduction,trafficking,abandonment,female mutilation,stigmatization,and infanticide
II. Familial abuse includes neglect, abandonment, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, humiliation, harassment and infanticide.
III. Institution abuse usually takes place in schools, day care centers, children’s homes and correctional rehabilitation homes and centres.It includes physical abuse such as canning,battering,overwork,sexual abuse,humiliation,derogatory language, uncaring altitudes,ridiculing,bullying,drug abuse and misuse of children e.g. doing household chores in teachers’ houses, sending children to sell teacher’s merchandise.
In order to go with child protection policy MAEC is raising its voice to all activists in the world to come together with cooperation demanding the rights of children.
ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE.
Some facts about Alcohol.
The following are facts about alcohol:
-People are starting to drink alcohol at younger ages then ever before.
-Young people are also drinking more heavily.
-Many young people who are injured or killed in traffic acciedents have alcohol in their blood.
Because young people have higher proportion of body water and lower proportions of fats and muscles than adults,they tend to be more affected by alcohol and become dependent on alcohol more quickly than adults.
-In many ccountries young people who drink alcohol go on to try illegal drugs.
-Alcohol can seriously damage the liver and cause many other health complications.
-Alcohol actually destroys brain cells.
-Alcohol affects judgement.Under the influence,one may be tempted to experiment with sex,which he or she might not do if sober.
REASONS OF USING DRUGS AND ALCOHOL.
The following might be the reasons why drugs and alcohol are used:
-Boredom.
-Loneliness.
-Poverty or feeling of hopelessness.
-Worry.
-Parents drinking.
-Failure to do well in school.
-Person happiness(it is a fun).
-Trying to forget problems.
-Trying to act grown up.
-Peer pressure.
CONSEQUENCES WHICH MIGHT COME FROM USING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS.
-Poor decision making.
-Bad health.
-Failure in school.
-Trouble with police.
-Problems in the family.
-Stealing.
-Having sex.
-Getting pregnant.
Getting an STD or HIV/AIDS.
Please in order to avoid those consequences listed do not engage in using drug and alcohol.
