The Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting the Construction of a Child-Friendly City in Shanghai (2023-2025) proposes to promote children's participation in public affairs, carry out a wide range of children's social practice activities, and integrate the concept of child-friendly concepts into the whole process of social and economic development and urban planning, construction and management.
This summer, focusing on the creation of the child-friendly pilot practice zone, Jing'an District has stimulated the vitality of the women's federations at the district, town, and residential areas, actively linked the rich resources of the regional child-friendly co-creation partner alliance units, and carried out a series of children's council activities around the themes of natural environmental protection, cultural promotion, and community micro-renewal, so as to promote the integration of the concept of "seeing the city, the world, and the future from a height of one meter" into the whole process and field of urban development, stimulating children's creativity, participation and social responsibility, and jointly building a better future for the community.
Zhijiang West Road Street: "Happy Reading Little Messenger, Scholarly Zhijiang"
The Zhijiang West Road Street Children's Council carried out discussion activities around the theme of "Reading Zhijiang with Joy" to support children to promote culture around the theme of "Reading Zhijiang", and to provide suggestions and suggestions for building a scholarly community.
The first event of the Zhijiang West Road Street Council was held at the Street Neighborhood Cultural Center, where children quickly built trust through icebreaker games and broke the inhibitions of first sight. The social worker introduced the concept and significance of the children's council to the children, emphasized their important role in community building, and helped the children improve their teamwork and collaboration skills through teamwork games. In the rule-making session, the children actively spoke and jointly established the rules of procedure of the council. With the successful conclusion of the first event, the Zhijiang West Road Children's Council officially set sail.
Shimen 2nd Road Street: "Children's Dreams Paint Colors, Light Up the Community"
Focusing on the theme of "Community Micro-Renewal", the Shimen 2nd Road Street Children's Council encourages children to integrate their dreams and visions into the community environment through "deliberation initiatives" and "wall painting", so as to promote the development of child-friendly communities.
The first event of the Shimen 2nd Road Street Children's Council was successfully held at the Butterfly Bay Party and Mass Service Station. At the beginning of the activity, the opening remarks of social worker Mr. Ke ignited the atmosphere of the scene, and the children spoke in turn, introducing themselves and expressing their original intention to participate in the meeting. Icebreaker games allow children to quickly get closer to each other. The social worker explained the definition, objectives and significance of the children's council in simple terms, and encouraged the children to speak up. The children had a heated discussion around the theme of "Children's Dreams Paint Colors, Light Up the Community", showing their strong interest and expectation for the micro-renewal of the community.
It is reported that the series of activities of the Children's Council aims to provide more resources and platform guarantees for children's participation by integrating children-related resources in Jing'an District and exploring the path of children's participation in projects, promoting the establishment of a long-term mechanism for children's participation, and further improving the effectiveness of children's participation in Jing'an District.
With the official opening of the council activities, the town councils will continue to deepen through more creative and practical activities to help children gradually turn their ideas and designs into reality, so that children's creativity and enthusiasm can be transformed into real changes in the community.
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Source: Shanghai Jing'an
Editor: Tao Yu