
The number of children and young victims of forced labor and sexual exploitation is increasing around the world. All this violence threatens their education and is harmful to their physical and mental development. Senegal is not spared from this scourge.
The ERA project aims to tackle this issue and promote a psycho-educational ecosystem based on the Fencing and Reparative Justice method.
The objective is to foster life-skills education and provide conditions for positive personal development that helps empower young people and promotes gender equality.
This educational initiative requires building the capacities of educators and prison officers dealing with minors. A Fencing and Restorative Justice Academy has been set up for this purpose, with the aim of creating a knowledge community around a unique educational initiative.
These good practices will seek to make actors from institutions and civil society aware that innovative and sustainable solutions can be promoted to address the needs for protection and education of minors.
This is what the ERA project is all about!
The association Pour le Sourire d’un Enfant was set up in 1989 with a mission to protect street children, as well as offer juveniles in contact with the law alternatives to the deprivation of liberty and prepare their social reintegration.
Its core activities are access to education, psychological support and legal assistance. To this effect, it has devised the Fencing and Restorative Justice method, a two-time Global Sports Week winner registered with the WIPO in 2021.
The ERA project is supported by a multidisciplinary team:
- CSOs: Association pour la Promotion de la Santé Mentale and Social Change Factory, the center for citizen leadership;
- National legal and health institutions: Department of Correctional Education and Social Protection, National Prison Administration, Judicial Training Center, National Penitentiary School, and Department of Mental Health;
- Scientific institutions: French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and Institute of Health and Development-UCAD.
ERA provides a multi-faceted response combining education, training and research to:
- Promote alternatives to the street and detention for 5,000 young peopleStrengthen the psycho-educational capacities of 60 prison officers and specialized educators;
- Reduce gender inequalities by encouraging self-expression in young people and their artistic creativity;
- Produce new knowledge on juvenile justice and young people’s mental health, two gaps in public policies for youth.
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