SEXUAL ABUSE DEFENSE (SAD) KIT
Quality Education
It is worrying that cases on sexual abuse and harassment among children have been on a rise lately. According to Utusan newspaper, there are a total of 5052 cases of this category that was recorded from year 2013 until 2017. This sexual abuse and harassment can affect a child’s psychological growth and lead to negative development from childhood to their adult stage. On top of that, this problem has always been done silently and rarely known until it becomes worst and serious. Therefore, children are the most affected victims that may experience traumatised due to this act because they are always known as innocent individuals who will later grow up to be as what being expected by the parents and so do the community surround them.Therefore, Sexual Abuse Defense (SAD) Kit that consists of a book, telephone applications and exercises which include several activities is prepared based on the children’s understanding in conjunction to help prevent this abused issue to be spread. In addition to that, exhibitions and talks will also be given to the children who involve in this project.
Overview of Issue / Background
It is worrying that cases on sexual abuse and harassment among children have been on a rise lately. According to Utusan newspaper, there are a total of 5052 cases of this category that was recorded from year 2013 until 2017. This sexual abuse and harassment can affect a child’s psychological growth and lead to negative development from childhood to their adult stage. On top of that, this problem has always been done silently and rarely known until it becomes worst and serious. Therefore, children are the most affected victims that may experience traumatised due to this act because they are always known as innocent individuals who will later grow up to be as what being expected by the parents and so do the community surround them.
Therefore, Sexual Abuse Defense (SAD) Kit that consists of a book, telephone applications and exercises which include several activities is prepared based on the children’s understanding in conjunction to help prevent this abused issue to be spread. In addition to that, exhibitions and talks will also be given to the children who involve in this project.
Project Objectives (Vision & Mission)
The objectives of this project are as stated below:
1. To provide the opportunity to the university students in performing social responsibilities to the community especially children.
2. To help reduce and prevent the number of aggressive sexual abuse and harassment cases.
3. To create the awareness among children that sexual abuse and harassment should not happen to them.
4. To aid the abused and harassed children to voice out their rights on the proper channel.
Project Details (Activities and Tasks)
As a start, this project will be executed in kindergartens and primary schools.
KEMAS and private kindergartens will be selected for the implementation of this project. Apart from that, there are also four (4) different types of primary schools that will be joining the kindergartens together which include Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan, Sekolah Rendah kebangsaan Jenis Cina, Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Jenis Tamil and Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Agama. The selection of the kindergartens and primary schools for this project is done fairly as to prove that this project focuses on all the children who come from different races and family economic background.
As the purpose of this project is mainly focusing on children, the activities done are also in line based on their ability and cognitive understanding.
The activities will be implemented as stated below:
1. Talk on sexual abuse and harassment among children by the respective Psychologist from the selected hospital.
2. Exhibitions
3. Distribution of SAD Kit flyers to children
4. Execution of SAD Kit in-group activities
- Sticker labeling
- Coloring
- Writing dialogues on pictures
- Acting
- Quizzes
This project offers several advantages to all parties include:
1. Children who had been abused before, are being abused or potentially being the victims of sexual abuse and harassment.
2. The community especially to adults in order to avoid them to involve in sexual abuse and harassment.
Expected Project Result & Outcomes
1. Children are aware that sexual abuse and harassment should not happen to them.
2. Children know the proper channel for them to report any sexual abuse and harassment that involved them.
3. Children can avoid themselves from being the victims of this sexual abuse and harassment seriously.
4. Children gain their self-esteem and build their emotion to face their childhood in a normal condition.
5. Children develop their cognitive thinking skill as accordance to the norm for children and in line with their stage.
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Project Information
| University name | : | Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Johor Kampus Segamat |
| Project leader name | : | AHMED RUSYDI HARITH BIN MOHD KHAIR |
Section I
Sexual Abuse Defense (SAD) Kit project is a campaign to create the awareness among children that sexual abuse should not happen to them hence to help reduce and prevent the number of aggressive sexual abuse cases. On the other hand, this campaign is to aid the abused children to voice out their rights on the proper channel and to provide the opportunity to the university students in performing social responsibilities to the community especially children.
Among the efforts that we have undertaken to raise additional funds for this project are to hold Wantan and pre-loved clothing sales besides holding a donation fund from students and lecturers who are keen to contribute while campaigning on them about the seriousness of the child's sexual crimes problem. In addition, we have received sponsorship from several parties, namely Nestle, Jakel Trading, Muhaimin Jewel and Germ Sdn. Bhd. and Oh Balloon
How our project actually worked
9th November 2017: We have gone to Permata Minda Pintar Kindergarten to run this project. The program started at 9.00 am with a welcome speech from the kindergarten’s principal and head of the SAD Kit project, Ainin Sofiya Abdul Karim. Then the program continued with fun talk with Dr Ezzah Nafisah Arpan, a pediatrician from Segamat Hospital, then the children were allowed to relax and eat. The program was continued with ice breaking based on the SAD Kit module where all the 50 children are divided into 5 groups and was conducted by one facilitator per group. After that, the program was enlivened with session quiz and prize presentation. The program ended at 1 pm.
20th November 2017: Four primary schools gathered at Dewan Sri Temenggong UiTM Johor Kampus Segamat. The program flows were the same but there were a
few additions. The program started at 9.00 am with prayer recitation followed by the opening speech by Dr Soo Kum Yoke who was Koordinator Unit Perundingan. The program continued with a talk by Dr Intan Nor Cahaya Sukor, who was a pediatrician from Segamat Hospital followed with another talk by Inspector Nurul Ain Mustafa, a crime investigator officer from Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM). The students and teachers were then invited to have the prepared meals. The program continued with an ice breaking session. A total of 263 students were divided into 26 groups. The session was enlivened with quizzes on prevention of child sexual abuse and martial arts show. The program ended with a prize presentation at 1.00 pm. The effectiveness of this project is measured through the entrance and exit surveys we have given to the children to fill in. The survey shows an increase of knowledge among the children.
Undeniably, some unanticipated difficulties were encountered. In terms of time constraint, we need to follow the availability of time for the schools. So after considering the educational seminars, the school programs and the final examination, we ended up to conduct this campaign on 20th November for the four schools all at
once, hence had to increase the number of our committee members from 15 to 30 students. In terms of budget constraint, we had planned to invite a child sexual abuse ambassador to come but it was out of our budget capability so we only recorded videos from artists and promoted their advice through SAD Kit Instagram. In terms of language, we had to deal with some communication barriers with students from Chinese and Indian schools. Therefore we had brought two students who acted as translators for Mandarin and Tamil languages.
This program had brought benefits to total numbers of 313 children and teachers of the kindergarten and primary schools. The long-term impact of this campaign is the awareness and knowledge that will be instilled to the children to protect themselves from being the sexual abuse victim. Besides, the adults will have the knowledge to educate the younger ones about this matter. Next semester, we plan to organize the campaign in a bigger scale through out Johor and to launch our official mobile apps. We have also established a link with Monsters Among Us (MAU) which is a non profit movement that works under Protect and Save the Children movement.
Section II
This project does bring happiness to the community especially to those who participated in this program. The children, teachers and committees were fully enjoyed the activities.
For a long term happiness, this project will be a stepping stone to encourage more universities to conduct similar campaigns regarding child sexual abuse. The children will have the knowledge and awareness on how to protect themselves from being sexually abused and the adults may share the knowledge they have gained to the younger generation.
This project has also changed a lot of our views towards child sexual abuse issues. When we researched for the facts, statistics and news, then only we realized how severe this problem is in our society. One in ten children will experience sexual abuse by age of 18 and in 90% of the sexual abuse cases, the children really know and trust the persons who abuse them, for example their fathers. It is painful to know that how our own home is no longer safe for our children nowadays.
Sexual Abuse Defense (SAD) Kit is a great project in uniting the community to combat child sexual abuse through awareness and educate on ways for prevention. I have learned how big the impact of a great teamwork is when all the members shared the same dreams and goals in realizing the objectives of this project - Ainin Sofiya Abdul Karim
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