“The campaign is a college project made for a service-management class," said Lamees Al-Mufti, a management-information system student at Dar Al-Hekma. "Throughout this class we have to deliver a service for the community.”
Aiming to create well-informed individuals who are able to recognize abused children and find them solutions."
"Even with our heads in the sand we can feel the heat of child abuse all around us," said Inass Ali, a Dar Al-Hekma instructor of service management.
"Its denial is both shameful and heartless. Let us all join hands in eradicating this criminal activity. We owe this to the victims, some of them in diapers."
Dar Al-Hekma will also host a number of seminars at the college's campus where around 200 social workers, teachers and lecturers will speak how to identify and eradicate child abuse.
Saud Kateb, a university lecturer and children's rights activist, said there are at least four types of child abuse.
“Physical abuse is the most common," he said. "Children are constantly beaten by their parents to instill discipline. Another common abuse is emotional abuse. I always see people in the street calling their children names and cursing them not realizing that in the long term it could cause them to be emotionally disturbed.”
The other two types of abuse, he added, were sexual molestation and ignoring a child's need for emotional support.
Kateb siad one of the biggest problems in combating child abuse was that the government keeps on records or has no statistics regarding the prevalence of the problem. For example, there is no public information available regarding the number of child-abuse cases that make it to the courts.
