The work on reducing violence in schools continues in a new international project we are now part of: CARING - Challenging social and gender norms to reduce violence against children in school.
Child protection organizations such as Terre des hommes (Tdh) offices in Romania, Greece, and Hungary; Brave Phone in Croatia; and SAPI and Association Roditeli in Bulgaria will be working together as the project’s overall ambition is to decrease gender-based violence (GBV) in the 32 participating schools in Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Greece. We will be equipping around 1200 facilitators, school staff and management, parents, as well as youth with increased awareness of harmful social and gender norms and behaviors, as well as knowledge on how to challenge them and to promote positive ones.
On the short term, at least 280 young people and school staff will start to become aware of the gender aspect and scale of school violence by being involved in the initial assessment. Then, based on the adapted CARING methodology, 64 school facilitators will train 320 school staff and management.
The CARING project, running from 1 May 2023 to 30 April 2025, is co-funded by the European Union, and is coordinated by Tdh Romania.
