Kathmandu, Nov 17: Minister for
Information and Communications, Dr Minendra Rijal, has said all sides should be
sensitive to the issues concerning children.
Inaugurating the four-day WADADA News
for Kids Summit begun here from today, Minister Rijal said that media should highlight
the basic issues related to health and sanitation, education and water which
cause direct impacts on children.
The Communications Minister said,
"We should address kid's issues in positive way on the mainstream
media."
He said, "Improvements in children's
livelihood will help the countries like Nepal to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs)."
The Summit is jointly organised by Free
Press Unlimited, the Netherlands, and Nayapusta/Nepal Forum of Environmental
Journalists (NEFEJ).
Similarly, Ruth Kronenburg, Director of
Operations at Free Press Unlimited said that 14 countries Kids news television
program is producing by partner organizations to provide opportunity to capture
the issues and voices of children.
She reiterated that we should always put
children in centre.
Laxman Humagain, General Manager of
Nepal Television said that Naya Pusta programme related to children is a good
example to draw attention of the kids and parents to change discrimination
against girls and women during menstruation in the cities in our societies
through collaborative efforts.
Likewise, NEFEJ President Sahaj Man
Shrestha said that WADADA the worldwide platform for kids news has been a
supportive in sharing child issues globally.
The 34 participants including experts
from United Kingdom and Germany and organizations producing kid's related TV
program from 14 countries are participating in the Summit.
WADADA News for Kids is
a project of Free Press Unlimited, which, together with local partners,
sets up youth news bulletins in developing countries. So children at a young
age, learn that there is more than one truth and that the world is bigger than
the village they grow up in.
WADADA News for
Kids annually organizes a summit for its network. The purpose of this
summit is to exchange lessons learned, to strengthen the network and its future
strategies and to announce the winner of the WADADA News for Kids award.
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