05/02/2014
Director of Ben Galloway Center for Child Development in a Tuesday meeting at Eastern Chamber
A memorandum of understanding with Saudi universities to launch the first chair of Child Development in the Gulf
The Executive Director of Galloway bin Abdulaziz bin Mesaad center for child development Dr. Ahmed bin Hamad Abu Ali, confirmed that the Center seeks to attract global experiences and new methods in child development. Abu Ali said during a meeting Tuesday, the monthly East Chamber Tuesday 4 February 2014 which Department Secretary-General Abdulrahman bin Abdullah Al wabil that the Centre seeks to benefit from the experience of Finnish as superior in the education sector.
Abu Ali said during a well-attended meeting of businessmen that the Centre signing of a memorandum of understanding with universities, including the Dammam University to launch the first Chair for child development in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, pointing out that the Center is moving aggressively with educational authorities to launch the Chair in the near future, the Centre even though could finance the 14 different projects, adding it aims to direct its programs for children in various regions of the Kingdom, and that according to statistics exceeds the 716 a Children in more than 220,000 in Al-Ahsa and more than 132,000 in Dammam and Qatif and more than 104 more than 87,000-more than 82,000 in Hafr Al-Batin, more than 38,000 in Jubail, Khafji over 17,000 and more than 10,000 bbkik and 9300 k balnairih-8900 to RAS tanura and 4,900 in the Alolia village.
Abu Ali drew attention to the statistics indicate that 90 cases of abuse of children as a result of poor treatment of the mother and father separated, in addition to the 94 children beggars do not work and 88 children beggars are illiterate versus 9 carrying the trial testimony, pointing out that 70 of child beggars have admitted that the humiliation of begging promote by mothers ', indicating that 69 of child beggars in the city of Riyadh Saudis and 68 children vendors at the traffic lights, non-Saudis, 56, 6 Child beggars are female and 70 orphans are subjected to psychological abuse. He also said that the rate of child sexual abuse in the Kingdom amounted to 22.5, where one out of every four children harassment, noting that 90 of the victims of sexual harassment is abuse of persons known to the child and his family, whether family members or family friends who are trustworthy.
The statistics released by the Ministry of the Interior indicates that the Riyadh region ranks first with respect to child abuse in the Kingdom, 47, then Jeddah and Taif 10 and finally third Dammam 7. It also said that 27 of the smokers in high school they started smoking in the first instance. Alwabil said that the meeting is to enhance communication between the Chamber and the Centre, which aims to spread the culture of social responsibility supported by Chamber through social responsibility and foster a culture of volunteering to serve the members of society and contribute to renounce everything to hurt them or abuse them to actions outside the custom and tradition, emphasizing the role of the Chamber leadership in this area and further support. At the end of the meeting Alwabil honored, Dr. Ahmed bin Hamad Abu Ali with Memorial shield.
