What is The Minor Project?
The Minor Project: Frequently Asked Questions
These Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), will tell you everything that you need to know about The Minor Project. To know why Leher created TMP, read our blog here.
I. WHAT IS THE MINOR PROJECT (TMP)
The Minor Project is a youth public dialogue initiative to Help End Violence Against Children. Through questions, conversations and an exchange of information and ideas, we believe we can set the foundations for a community that cares about protecting childhoods everywhere.
Campaign Protagonists Minor (a child who represents all children), and Murli (an elephant representing the caring alert society we want to see), take lead in the discussion as they unpack issues, explore places, highlight good practices, show us, heroes, bring us content developed through exciting youth collaborations, gently encouraging us to share the responsibility to #ENDViolence against children.
II. WHAT DOES TMP AIM TO DO
1.Create an open platform to understand and discuss chronic issues (such as caste, gender, patriarchy, disability, climate) that cause violence, abuse and exploitation of children across all sections of society.
2.Education and awareness among youth such that they seek out, engage, utilize and support child protection services and institutions.
3. Build a large diverse online community that promotes a culture of respect for children and shares the responsibility to protect the childhoods of every child.
III. WHO IS TMP FOR?
Youth and youth communities in digital space.
Tier 1 and Tier 2 Urban Youth
Childhood experiences are mixed, they shape adults, and travel with us through adulthood, often shaping our choices, compulsions and our lives in different ways. Young adults relate strongly to childhood experiences, many continuing to grapple with the aftermath of issues they faced as children.
The online world has created for youth a market place, a space to voice and/or monetize their opinions, causes, products, work, struggles, passions, hobbies, and art. Youth seamlessly integrate offline and online experiences.
IV. OUR COLLABORATORS
The Minor Project is a collaborative effort that brought together diverse artists, writers, illustrators, musicians, poets, media students, photographers, influencers and digital marketers from all walks of life.
The execution of TMP is led by the Outbox Project, creative director Mandovi Menon, and the Leher team. We also collaborated with media students of Social Communications Media (SCM) Sophia, youth-led platforms such as We Are Yuvaa and Feminism in India to create a dialogue to #ENDViolence against children.
V. HOW CAN YOU BE A PART OF TMP?
1. To make a major difference in the life of a minor, you must like and follow TMP. Our Instagram account is @projectminor
2. To be part of the dialogue to help #EndViolenceAgainstChildren, you can begin by filling in these slam sheets and gratitude notes.
3. To help make a difference in a child’s life and act on Violence Against Children (VAC) we have created some resources that you can use. You can check some resources here, here, and here. Watch this space as we shall be adding more resources.
4. You can like, share, comment, save your resources with your friends, families, neighbours, extended relatives and organisations.
You can join TMP to start conversations, educate yourself and become involved in the journey to #EndViolenceAgainstChildren. Future generations will thank you for it.
The Minor Project platform is an opportunity to scale up and nurture communities to be spokespersons for children. We begin by putting children first.
To become a part of our online community on the Instagram head to @ProjectMinor.
To know more about child protection and the work we do, head to our Website www.leher.org and follow us on @LeherIndia
Should you have any questions you can send us an email at contact@leher.org
Leher is a child rights organization working to make child protection a shared responsibility. We envision a society where caring for families, alert communities and responsive governments come together to ensure the rights and protection of all children.
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