In Europe - CIS
Third seminar on ‘Grain of Sand’ and ‘PTA’ (Parents-Teachers-Association) in Baku, Azerbaijan in April 2008
From 22 to 25 April 2008 the third seminar in the framework of the project "Prevention of sexual abuse and assistance to sexually abused children in CIS and Latvia" took place in Baku, Azerbaijan. The seminar was dedicated to ‘Grain of Sand', a method of prevention developed by the French organisation ALC, and ‘PTA' (Parents-Teachers-Association) developed by the Azeri partner ‘Reliable Future'.
‘Grain of Sand' is a global programme of prevention of violence against children that aims at improving the detection of risk situations, breaking the shutting up of children and encouraging the initiatives-taking. It is addressed to children (as pedagogical tool) as well as adults, by allowing the identification of relay-adults in the environment of each young. ‘PTA' promotes the involvement of parents of pupils in the life and decisions of the school. It was interesting to link ‘Grain of Sand' and PTA since both tools lie on communities' resources (school and family).
During the seminar, the 30 participants (including 1 young person per organisation) were trained on the concrete way to build up ‘Grain of Sand' and each group already worked out a proposition adapted to its context.
