The BWS Anti Child Abuse and Neglect "Be Free" Project's News

The "Be Free" project had many activities, bellow are some of them:

• A simenar on "Child Sexual abuse, its effect on the society and the role of Law". This was held on 12th of April 2002. Dr. Fadeelh Almahroos, Dr. Banna Bozaboon and Lawyer Fatima Alhawaaj were the main speakers.
   
• Preparing and conducting workshops to strengthen the child and increase child's self esteem. Bellow are some of the conducted workshops;
   
• Creative thinking skills: Salman center.
   
• Critical thinking skills: Salman center.
   
• Communication skills: Salman center.
   
• Dealing with stress: Salman center.
   
• Problem solving skills: Officers children club.
   
• Fatima's campaign: Please view the link for Fatima's campaign in the home page.
   
• Participating in many radio and TV educational programs to increase the awareness regarding child abuse and neglect and how to help in protecting against it. There is a weekly program in Radio Bahrain. In this program, one of the "Be Free" team talks about child abuse issues.
   
• Regular publishing of educational articles in local news papers about child abuse and neglect issues.
   
• Conducting educational lectures and discussion groups for care givers especially parents about the subject of child abuse and neglect.
   
• The "Be Free" project participated in the study that will be presented by the Bahrain Research center. The paper is discussing the way Bahrainis look at child abuse issues and the way they look at the victim and abuser and the implications of this view.
   
• The "Be Free" project will participate with a paper in the conference that will be held in Amman, Jordan about the "Anti Violence Counseling centers". The conference will be held from 20-22 October 2002.