As the year draws to an end, we are gradually completing the thematic workshops with children that are taking place in the framework of the program “Safing: Building Safe and Inclusive Learning Environments”. More than 100 children, from the 21st, 22nd and 35th Primary schools of Athens, continued to participate in Safing in November and December 2025 and had 6 more sessions (reaching 8 or even 9 sessions in total) in the thematic units "Our team", "One class: Many children", and "We live the rights of the Child every day".
So before we pass the torch to the awareness raising projects organized by the participating children (and about which we will inform in the next article), we would like to recall what we did in these last workshops. From the 21st, 22nd and 35th primary schools of Athens, we therefore report we did the following:
- Created individual and collective portraits of the class: human figures on which all the languages, abilities, interests, and loved ones are depicted, initially for each child, and then for the entire class)
- Built the classroom diversity puzzle
- Talked about our preferences, learned from our differences
- Explored the stories of our names and talked about the right to a name and the right to identity
- Learned more about the names, diminutives and nicknames in the class through a "Name Bingo" and took a stance regarding different sentences related to the name (The name does not change / My name speaks for me / My name is unique / I have the wrong name)
- Created a corner for all the children's birthdays (A Birthday Cake corner)
- Pinned all our places of origin on the world map, but also all the places we dream of going to
- Painted in our journals the river of life, with our roots, present and future plans
- Answered to the questions of Inart12 regarding the daily implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Played with the Convention, trying to classify the articles into 4 categories (Survival, Participation, Development, Protection), only to discover that the articles are indivisible! Universal and interconnected!
- Created “rights maps” to explore where rights flourish and where they wither in our neighborhoods
- Exchanged cherished rights and defended those of our classmates as if they were our own
- Had a flash-back and got (awesome!) feedback on the whole series of workshops from the pupils.
What do you think?
¿ What would it be like if all children were the same? If they had the same external characteristics, the same experiences?
¿ Which rights are flourishing and which are withering in your neighborhood?
¿ In which category (Survival, Development, Protection or Participation) would you place the right to Education? The right to Non-Discrimination? The right to a Name?
¿ What would you place in your Body of Knowledge? Which languages, people, interests and skills make up the knowledge you bring to a team? How much of this did you acquire through formal education and how much through informal learning processes?
Did you know that…
In Albania, sometimes parents and guardians give their child a name that they make up by combining half of their own names?
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Lead Partner: Eurochild and Terre des hommes (Tdh)
Type: Subgranting CERV - EU Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme
Project title: Building Safe and Inclusive learning environments - “SafIng”
Start: 01/07/2025 – End: 30/06/2026
Project Reference: 101138279
Grant: 30.000 EUR
This project has received funding from the European Union’s CERV programme with the Grant Agreement No. 101138279. The Daphne-CHILD programme is a collaborative initiative led by Eurochild and Terre des hommes (Tdh).
