2024-07-03 20:48:08
Various projects to support children’s health rights
Correcting lifestyle habits using popular characters
Providing psychological counseling through art therapy, etc.
The right to health of children is a fundamental right specified in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The health status of children in the developmental stage has a great impact on their quality of life in the future. However, the health of children and adolescents is gradually deteriorating due to bad lifestyle habits such as lack of exercise.
According to the ‘2023 South Korea Child Rights Index’ published by Good Neighbors, a global children’s rights NGO, the consumption rate of instant and convenience store foods increased from 3.8% in 2016 to 6.6% in 2023, and the child instability score rose from 31.6 points in 2016 to 37.4 points in 2023. The key indicators of physical and mental health are in the red.
To improve this situation, Good Neighbors is carrying out awareness raising campaigns and projects to promote children’s physical and mental health under the slogan, “Healthy Comfort, Healthy Mind.”
As an awareness-raising activity, we are carrying out a campaign called ‘Catch Catch Health with Teenie Ping’ using popular characters. This campaign provides practical guidelines for forming proper eating habits and healthy lifestyle habits, both online and offline. We are also carrying out a ‘It’s Okay Not to Be Skinny’ campaign to improve eating disorders in children and adolescents.
‘Orange Jump School’ is a health promotion program for children who use local children’s centers, etc. It distributes booklets containing various physical activities and dispatches professional instructors to the centers to conduct physical education programs. It also provides nutritional supplements and health product kits. Last year, about 500 underprivileged youth participated in this program. One participating child said, “I had a strong desire to win, so I couldn’t accept the results at first, but I was able to learn cooperation and consideration as I continued to participate in team activities.”
Good Neighbors is also carrying out the ‘Mind Talk’ project to protect children’s minds. This project, which started in 2013, has had over 10,000 cumulative participants. It operates peer group art therapy programs such as art, dance, and music, and improves emotional control abilities through psychological treatment and counseling, and develops self-esteem and sociality.
Good Neighbors is also providing policy participation opportunities so that children can directly voice their opinions regarding their right to health. For the physical health of children, it is conducting a survey on the high-calorie and low-nutrition status of children’s favorite foods and monitoring and surveying the status of children’s food safety protection zones, and proposing policies based on the results. It is also urging that the Basic Children’s Act include the right to play and the right to rest to promote children’s mental health.
Reporter Jo Yu-ra [email protected]
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2024-07-03 20:48:08