Three artworks of our Sponsor Children have been selected to represent Bangladesh in the BEYOND Spacesuit project executed by the Space for Art Foundation.

Besides the celebration of Child Rights Week 2021 ActionAid Bangladesh provided reusable masks among about 15,000 children as one of the tools to stay safe from coronavirus, and exercise books to encourage them to study with a fresh zeal.

With the financial support of ActionAid Bangladesh World Children Day and Child Rights Week-2021 was observed in 5 Children Spaces in Madarganj Upazila of Jamalpur district.

To hit at the stereotyping thinking of the society and to make aware the community on girls’ rights, LRP-50 organized a football match for girl children, as a part of celebrating Child Rights Week 2021.

ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB) arranged a day-long Life Skill Based Education training at LRP34.

LRP 41 arranged programs on world children’s day on 7th of October 2021 at Chittagong Shishu Academy (Chittagong Children’s academy) to ensure children’s participation through different cultural programs, discussion sessions etc.

A child hearing event was organized at Ghoraghat on 10th October 2021 as part of Child Rights Week to give children scope to share their recommendations to government and community leaders regarding climate change related to their surroundings.

Along with its partner organization, ActionAid Bangladesh is working at LRP-50 to enhance the status the child rights. Thus, during the celebration of Child Rights Week 2021, members of the Child Forum organized a Press Conference on 07th October at Press Club in their community.

As a part of Child Rights week 2021, various initiatives had been taken at LRP level to ensure child participation. Along with the theme of Child Rights Week 2021, this time, we tried to highlight the theme ‘Climate Justice’ to incorporate the demand and desire of our children from the local to national level as well as international level at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26. Along with that, a huge number of girls are at risk of child marriage. Though there is significant progress in recent years, still Bangladesh has the fourth highest prevalence of child marriage especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, millions of girls are facing difficulties. School closures, isolation from friends and support networks, and rising poverty places girls at risk of child marriage.