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UNICEF, GITAM ink MoU to better adolescents’ lives
While interacting with GITAM University Vice-Chancellor Prof M S Prasada Rao during the MoU signing ceremony, she informed that as part of MoU, the UNICEF and GITAM would identify, develop and sustain the best possible digital platforms and channels like empowering adolescents through formation of youth reporter groups.
Visakhapatnam: UNICEF and GITAM University on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to empower the adolescents (10-19 years) and to address their issues in Visakhapatnam district.
The district has been selected among the four in India to deal with adolescents’ issues. The other districts are Purulia, West Bengal; Sibsahar in Assam and East Singhbum in Jharkhand. The four states have been selected based on indicators related to adolescent girls particularly Visakhapatnam district was chosen as it has a high incidence of child marriage (57.4 percent) and a significantly sized tribal population, said UNICEF Chief Field Officer Ruth Leano.
While interacting with GITAM University Vice-Chancellor Prof M S Prasada Rao during the MoU signing ceremony, she informed that as part of MoU, the UNICEF and GITAM would identify, develop and sustain the best possible digital platforms and channels like empowering adolescents through formation of youth reporter groups, facilitating them to discuss their development issues through weekly or fortnightly meetings, supporting adolescents to appropriately articulate their development concerns, and sharing them with peers and stakeholders through digital media (video blogs, print media and electronic media).
She also informed that UNICEF was also planning to launch user-friendly mobile application exclusively for adolescents to share their voices and thoughts on issues ranging from their health to career to protection issues-via text, pictures or even video clips.
Vice-Chancellor Prof M S Prasada Rao expressed hope that GITAM-UNICEF cooperation plan would give useful results in coming days and also enable the adolescents to articulate their perspectives through appropriate digital platforms.
GITAM Institute of Technology principal Prof K Lakshmiprasad informed that the University Information Technology department was associating with this project and planning to involve the NSS volunteers.
The university IT department head, Prof Y Srinivas, UNICEF official Prosun Sen, Bala Vikas Foundation secretary Narava Prakasa Rao, State Child Rights Protection Commission member S Bala Raju, research scholars L Emmaniel Raju and L Shanthi Raju, GITAM alumni
MSV Sumanth participated in the programme.
