Photo: Cwin-Nepal Gauri Pradhan is the president of Cwin-Nepal. He is known as a dedicated warrior in the protection of the Child Right. Here we present an exclusive interview with Mr. Pradhan about making the National Children’s Day a fruitful event. Interview is taken by Ketaketi monthly’s chief editor Kartikeya Ghimire and translated in English by Ketaketi monthly’s Editor Bibhor Baral.

‘National Children’s Day’ is an opportunity and fist for all the children. It is good and obvious to see various entertaining and competitive programs conducted in the schools. But, it should not be restricted just in those activities. Today forty percent of our children are deprived of the study. We should bring children’s day for them also.

Children’s day is an important day that comes once in a year. Using this day as an opportunity we have to evaluate the entire works done in the field of children within the year and discuss about the weaknesses and failures.  We have to evaluate the effectiveness of the laws related to the children and make a clear viewpoint on updating and improving them.

Actually, we are not able to mobilize all the social classes in the celebration of the children’s day. There is a misconception that in children’s day, the programs should be conducted only by the organizations and institutions related to the children. Considering the slogan specified for it, various social groups and classes like farmers, workers, ethnic groups etc should conduct programs for the children of their sector and make the children’s day a meaningful and popular event.

The children’s day’s slogan of this year ‘Children are the zone of peace’ is a contemporary issue. This has shown a way for peace by including the children’s reality. So, we have to march ahead making an agenda to create an environment suitable to work for the children.

Presently, only ten percent of children are covered by the children’s day. So, children’s day should be free from the traditional committee. Children’s day can be made a fruitful event by utilizing it to discuss various matters such as- ‘works done by the elders for the children within the whole year’, ‘what were the benefits gained?’, ‘now how to move ahead?’ etc.

      The time has arrived. We to make a clear viewpoint about how to celebrate the children’s day. It is because unless we are able to celebrate it with a clear and meaningful program, it would be providing special benefits only for the children of certain class. So, all the organizations and institutions working for the children should be united. They should formulate a clear destination and conduct the children’s day with the programs that would make the event meaningful and cover all the children of Nepal.