{"id":1587,"date":"2013-11-27T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnrc.ziplinestaging.com\/regional-archives\/africa\/gnrc-kenya-nairobi-celebrates-world-day-of-prayer-and-action-1415908484\/"},"modified":"2021-05-30T13:40:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T21:40:41","slug":"gnrc-kenya-nairobi-celebrates-world-day-of-prayer-and-action-1415908484","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"GNRC Kenya (Nairobi) celebrates World day of Prayer and Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Day of Prayer and Action for Children was celebrated in Kenya at Soweto Baptist primary school, Kibera<\/p>\n

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Approximately one hundred and eighteen and one hundred and fifty nine parents and children respectively took part in celebrating the World Day of Prayer and Action for Children on November 20 th at Soweto Baptist primary school in Kibera.<\/p>\n

Parents got to interact with facilitators from the Center for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW) and the Government of Kenya\u2019s Department of Civil Registrations.<\/p>\n

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The facilitators from CREAW educated and gave informative talks on:<\/p>\n

Positive Parenting<\/strong>
\u2022 Parenting as a responsibility of both parents
\u2022 Need for parents to interact with children and know what they are up to as well as monitoring their activities and stuff they carry around.
\u2022 Hands-on, supportive parenting and avoiding absenteeism.
\u2022 Avoiding authoritarianism and embracing dialogue.
\u2022 Adoption of positive language as it influences children\u2019s attitudes and communication.<\/p>\n

Early Child Marriages<\/strong>
Some of the causes and effects were discussed as follows:<\/em>
\u2022 Poverty
\u2022 Cultural practices
\u2022 Authoritarian parenting
\u2022 Continuity of the poverty cycle: uneducated parents = uneducated children.
\u2022 Biological complications from the reproductive system e.g fistula.
\u2022 Socio-economic challenges: dependency on husbands, creating room for domestic violence.<\/p>\n

Birth Registration<\/strong>
This proved to be the most pressing issue within the community. The top challenges identified were:
\u2022 Lack of awareness on processes and procedures for birth registration.
\u2022 Lack of awareness on rights citizens have to access the registration office, leading to exploitation by middlemen, especially financially.
\u2022 Inaccessibility of the registration office for the Kibera community due to distance.
\u2022 High cases of home births and births at unregistered clinics, robbing parents of the opportunity to get birth notifications. These notifications assist in the acquisition of birth certificates in the most efficient manner.
\u2022 Increased cases of underage pregnancies from promiscuity and rape cases.<\/p>\n

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Children taking part in fun and activities                A nurse giving medicine to children                   Children from Soweto Baptist Primary school        <\/em><\/p>\n

The event was concluded by encouraging parents to educate their children and the community at large so that they can be aware of the negative consequences early child marriages, benefits of positive parenting and the importance of birth registration.
In addition, the Nairobi office will follow up on this issue by arranging for a mobile registration exercise to assist the Kibera community in acquiring birth and death registration certificates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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