Advocacy & Public Education

The NCFC acts as an advocate for children’s rights. It also conducts public education and awareness programmes on children’s rights issues. These programmes target all levels of society, including children themselves.

Purpose

Various strategies and diverse mediums have been employed and utilized to create awareness about issues affecting children and adolescents and their families. The NCFC also supports policies, projects and programmes that are of benefit to children and adolescents, that make their best interest a priority.

Major Accomplishments

Over the past few years, the National Committee for Families and Children has partnered with several other agencies within the sector to produce information, education and communication materials in various forms, which have helped to create awareness and sensitize the general public and special populations on various issues affecting them personally and society at large. Several publications have been developed which are now being used as resources by our partner agencies.

Visit the Press Room for a list of the downloadable PDF versions of our publications

One of our mandates is to provide CRC education for the families and children of our society. Over the years the NCFC has employed various strategies providing sensitization at various levels of society. We have embarked on programmes educating teachers, children and parents through a variety of methods. Additionally, the NCFC also provides CRC education to interested persons or groups upon request.

The NCFC commemorates several international awareness days. International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) and International Human Rights Day are among those commemorated by the NCFC. On these occasions we plan specific projects that create awareness about these various causes.

Please visit our calendar for information on events and awareness days.

Along with specific projects there are several programmes that run continuously throughout the year. Such programmes include our Radio Programmes and the Informed Teen Reporters Group.

The NCFC coordinates and produces two radio shows; powerful tools which aid in the agency's endeavor to create awareness about the many issues affecting Belizean families and children. These radio shows are:

The Kid O' Rama Show