Dimapur, January 17 (MExN): As part of the Samvidhan (Constitution) Live – The Jagrik (Aware Citizens) Project campaign, CAN Youth in collaboration with Nagaland State Legal Services Authority and Dimapur District Legal Services Authority conducted awareness programme on women and girl child rights at the premise of Thahekhu Village Baptist Church on January 15.
Jenpu Rongmei, Chief Functionary, CAN Youth spoke on the roles and responsibilities of young people to have knowledge of fundamental rights and at the same time act on fundamental duty and help the marginalized sections of the society who are deprived of their rights, informed a press release from Waisringdao Naiding, Project Coordinator, Youth Voluntarism.
Meanwhile, Esther Aye, Legal Aid Counsel cum trainer, Nagaland State Legal Services Authority and Visheli Yeptho, Panel Lawyer, Dimapur District Legal Services Authority spoke on Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, Maintenance, Victim Compensation Act, and The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.
Esther Aye also encouraged the church youth to play a positive role in bringing change and justice to women and girl child who have been exploited or are victims of domestic violence.
H Ploto Yeptho of CAN Youth shared about his experience in the campaign. He spent time along with his friend in hospital for 1 week helping a mentally ill patient, and also gave free tuition to poor students. The campaign, he said, helped him understand how it hurts when someone is deprived of their rights.
Samvidhan LIVE – The Jagrik Project, an initiative of Commutiny the Youth Collective (CYC), is a journey to engage young Jagriks (Jagruk Nagrik - Aware Citizens) between the ages of 16 and 30 years in different parts of the country to experience the constitution. “We believe ownership of common spaces is a crying need of the hour. Ownership cannot be given in classrooms. It has to be taken on the streets…Through this public initiative (The Jagrik Project), young people will experience how the rights and duties in our constitution are being lived, and report back their experiences to rest of the world,” the release stated.
In Dimapur, CAN Youth is a partner for the two-month long campaign and is engaging 24 young people to involve in different activities and tasks on fundamental duties and fundamental rights along with conducting survey with the community.
CAN Youth has also invited youth of Dimapur, social workers, college and higher secondary school students to take part in the Common Action Day on January 18 at DBDL Hall, Don Bosco Higher Secondary School campus, Dimapur from 1:00 to 3:00 pm, where there will be a panel discussion on the topic ‘Role of youth participation in understanding and making our constitution come alive.’
