AR Kohima Battalion holds awareness lecture on child abuse

Puja Nair of HEAL (Help Eradicate Abuse through Learning) giving a lecture on ‘Child Abuse’ at Kohima Garrison on December 4. (Photo: PRO, IGAR)

Kohima, December 8 (MExN): The Kohima Battalion under the aegis of HQ IGAR (N) conducted an awareness lecture on child abuse for the teachers from various schools of Kohima on December 4.

Held under the theme, ‘Child Abuse,’ the lecture at Kohima Garrison was attended by 65 teachers from different schools in Kohima. 

Puja Nair, the resource person, covered the alarming rate at which child abuse is growing and how social media has given unhindered access to children and students to engage in the actions which have far reaching consequence hampering positive growth of a child from their tender age. 

She is a part of HEAL (Help Eradicate Abuse through Learning), an organisation founded by Rahul Bose, that has been working against Child Sexual Abuse since 2008 and is based in Mumbai, informed a press release from Lt Col Vincent Patton, the PRO of Inspector General of Assam Rifles.

The lecture was meant to make adults aware of what child abuse is and how “we as adults have the responsibility to prevent it,” the release said. 

The lecture was followed by queries from the teachers in attendance and interaction.