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16/05/2022
We Are Celebrating The
World Day Of The Boy Child
Theme:
Boosting optimism, restoring self-worth.
WDBC was inaugurated in 2018 and this year will be observed in 24 countries.
Our boys reflect our heritage and serve as one of the links to the past and the present that intersects with the future of our families, communities and world.
WDBC serves as a platform for individuals, organizations, and institutions to improve the manner in which we protect our boys and reclaim our heritage.
How? Global coordinators for WDBC are offering a few suggestions:
• Facilitate and moderate sessions for boys and adolescent males to engage in a straight-no chaser dialogue to express to key stakeholders what they need and want to safely and successfully navigate the arduous journey from boyhood to manhood.
The key stakeholders with whom boys and adolescent young males would engage in discussions include educators, school administrators, law enforcement professionals, legal professionals, health care professionals and providers, social services professionals and providers, parents, legislators, business leaders, and Fatherhood and Men’s Issues advocates and practitioners.
• Identify and support existing initiatives which have a successful track record of addressing and helping to eradicate the;
a) academic underperformance of boys and adolescent males and their mischaracterization as being “unteachable”, “intellectually challenged”, and “behavior problems”
b) rising incidence of depression and su***de among boys and adolescent males.
c) recruitment and utilization of boys and adolescent males as child soldiers.
d) underlying causes of poverty which lead to boys and adolescent males working full-time to support their families and not attending school.
e) literacy gap for boys and adolescent males.
f) lack of legitimate real-life options and absence of positive male role models.
• Employ male educators and administrators in schools located in communities that have Fatherless households or households devoid of a dominant male presence.