According to the Public Relations and International Affairs report, Dr. Seyed Javad Hosseini, Head of State Welfare Organization, welcomed Monica Oldzka-Nielsen at the bilateral meeting on cooperation between the SWO and UNICEF, which was held on Sunday evening, and explained the services and actions of this organization in the field of children and adolescents.
Hosseini said: "We have 6,000 unaccompanied and children without effective caregivers, adolescents, and infants entering the Welfare Organization annually. The Welfare Organization's policy is based on a "family-centered" policy because we believe that there is no warm embrace of a family anywhere. Therefore, 50 percent of these children return to the embrace of their biological families."
The head of the Welfare Organization continued by pointing out that we have designed comprehensive policies and programs to "empower "and" create opportunities" for children under the organization's care, and stated: "In this framework, children are divided into three stages: "pre-discharge", "in-discharge ", and "post-discharge", and programs have been planned for them at each stage."
The head of State welfare organization noted that we expect UNICEF to cooperate with us in several areas related to health, education and nutrition of children, holding educational workshops and visits, and the new project that was announced today, as well as in the field of electronic rehabilitation issues that we are trying to expand in the country.
Hosseini noted: We are ready to cooperate with UNICEF in new policy-making.
He also emphasized that the Welfare Organization needs UNICEF's assistance in transferring experiences and skills more than financial assistance. The project to empower women in households is a very important project for us, and how to implement this project is a very important issue for us.
The head of the State welfare organization continued his speech by stating that our new approaches are in line with "transformational orientations," which will be followed by opportunity-creating, neighborhood-oriented, family-centered, preventive, socializing, integrative, participatory, and justice-seeking projects based on knowledge foundations.
In explaining the neighborhood and participation-based plans, Hosseini stated: In this plan, in cooperation with the ministry of Education, 760 schools in different regions will be made available to the Welfare Organization in the evenings to implement its plans. In this plan, we will first go to the middle-aged and elderly to teach them about rest, nutrition, diseases, recreation, and the elderly referral system, and in the next stage, we will teach children and adolescents how to deal with children with special disabilities, such as children with Down syndrome, autism, etc., and this plan will be implemented under the title of "Neighborhood Welfare." Also, in another plan, we are trying to bring the entire community to the aid of Welfare, and within this framework, we will organize a network of volunteers in different fields, including doctors, teachers, rehabilitators, etc.
Monica Oldzka-Nielsen, UNICEF's interim representative in Iran, said at the bilateral cooperation meeting between the Welfare Organization and UNICEF, which was held on Sunday evening at the organization's premises: "There are many areas for cooperation between the two organizations, and we have common goals, and we also focus on small people (children), and we are partners with you in this regard."
He continued: “The Welfare Organization has a very heavy responsibility because you cover a large number of stakeholders.”
Nielsen said: “It is important that the Iranian Welfare Organization has a professional and knowledge-based approach, and this allows us to have better cooperation together.”
Emphasizing that UNICEF’s role is not just to provide financial assistance and that we can help to better highlight the Welfare Organization’s actions internationally, he added: “The example of the project to empower women headed of households, in which UNICEF is also active, has strong social support for women, which we can also participate in.”
The UNICEF representative continued: “The importance of data in our programs is a serious matter, and the fact that the Welfare Organization presented its programs was significant and effective, and this is important for us in our planning and budgeting, and also for international donors to see what is happening. A successful example we had last November was Iran’s participation in the Global Summit to end violence against Children, which was attended by the Iranian Minister of Justice.
In the end, he expressed his appreciation for holding this meeting and expressed hope that technical meetings will be held to implement joint programs in the future.
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