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CDB Exchange Programme
7 Child Volunteer Managers of CDB from New Delhi,
Muzaffarpur, Colombo and Kabul visited Italy from 11th
to 25th April 2007 for an exchange programme. They spoke
about the CDB to representatives of Italian governments,
UNICEF, NGOs, school and college students and addressed
many press meetings. They traveled to Vicenza, Padua,
Florence, Sienna, Rome, Bologna, Verona and Milan.
Everybody eagerly listened to the children in the
meetings and acknowledged that the CDB plays an
important role in empowering the street and working
children with life skills. The CDB delegation also spoke
about the situation of street and working children in
their respective countries which created a change in the
thinking of people who had believed that the children
should not work at all without taking into consideration
the circumstances in the developing countries that make
the children to work. The exchange programme was
facilitated by Associazione Solidarieta e Cooperazione (A.So.C.),
Italy.
International Training Workshop
on the Children’s Development Bank in December
Butterflies is organizing two back to back international
training workshops on the Children’s Development Bank
from 6th to 14th December 2007 in New Delhi. These
workshops are planned as a follow up to the three
previous training workshops which were organized
respectively in Delhi and Chennai in April and December
2005. CDB members and the adult facilitators from CDB
partner organizations will participate in the training
workshop. While the first workshop will focus on various
aspects of CDB such as principles, values, objectives,
documentation etc. which is meant for younger children,
the second training workshop will focus on training in
starting and managing businesses and is meant for
adolescents.
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