Solely
motivated by the principle that ‘Children should be inspired to defend their
rights’, the Mercers free legal aid cell conducted its annual Legal Literacy
programme on 6thJanuary 2017, at St.cruz Panchayat Hall in
collaboration with the child line. The Programme was attended by the Students
of St.cruz High School, and by the locals. The representative faculty Prof. Dr.
K.S. Rao was present on the occasion.
The Inaugural address given by the Deputy student
cell in - charge Ms. Saicha Dessai. She introduced and welcomed the guest speaker.
The
Programme then began with the Speaker interacting with the crowd about their
knowledge on Child line. The crowd was first reluctant to answer any questions
but at the later point responded overwhelmingly to the questions posed by the
Speaker. Speaker spoke about the purpose of child line and also provided
information about quick help line numbers for women. They also encouraged the
people to safeguard themselves from any kind of abuse; then proceeded to give a
few other examples wherein a lot of children were actually victims and have
called the child line for their help and then conducted a demonstration to
confirm whether the child line number is functional or not, for that purpose
asked people to call and it did work. The Programme concluded with vote of
thanks delivered by student cell in - charge Ms. Firdoussa Babepari.
