Child Protection Policy.

A child according to the purpose of Major Alliance Education Center’s (MAEC) protection policy (herein referred to as the policy), is any human being under the age of 18 years. Or a child is defined as any person who is below the age of 18.Accordingly, this definition applied in protection of child’s rights and welfare/interests.

According to MAEC protection policy is as follows:

v       A child for the purposes of Child protection policy and procedures is any human being under the age of 18 years.

v       Child protection policy finds basis in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1990(herein referred to as CRC) which the united Republic of Tanzania ratified in 1991.The CRC Article 3(2) states.

State parties undertake to ensure the child such protection and care as is necessary for his or her well-being, taking into account the right and duties of his or her parents, legal guardians and other individuals legally responsible for him or her ,and to this end, shall take all appropriate legislative and administrative measures.

A child Abuse consists of any thing which individuals, institutions, or processes do or fail to do which directly or indirectly harm children or damages their prospects of safe and healthy development into adulthood.

               I.      Extra-familial abuse includes child labor such as child domestic work,prostitution,displacement,abduction,trafficking,abandonment,female mutilation,stigmatization,and infanticide

              II.      Familial abuse includes neglect, abandonment, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, humiliation, harassment and infanticide.

            III.      Institution abuse usually takes place in schools, day care centers, children’s homes and correctional rehabilitation homes and centres.It includes physical abuse such as canning,battering,overwork,sexual abuse,humiliation,derogatory language, uncaring altitudes,ridiculing,bullying,drug abuse and misuse of children e.g. doing household chores in teachers’ houses, sending children to sell teacher’s merchandise.

In order to go with child protection policy MAEC is raising its voice to all activists in the world to come together with cooperation demanding the rights of children.