Education as a Human Right that

Promotes the Common Good

Chairman: VIDES Philippines

Sr. Maria Josefina S. Carrasco

Chairman: VIDES Philippines

Sr. Maria Josefina S. Carrasco

Summary Points

• Every human right is a common

good. Human rights are universal

and indivisible.

• We are all entitled to equal access • We are all entitled to equal access

to education, and this should

include education on human rights.

Documents on Human Rights,

Education, and Common Good

• Human rights, education and the

common good are embodied in the

following documents:

• Universal Declaration of Human • Universal Declaration of Human

Rights,

• Convention on the Rights of the

Child,

• CEDAW, ICESCR, UNESCO

Declaration

Documents on Human Rights,

Education, and Common Good

• Compendium on the Social

Doctrine of the Church,

• Gospels,

• Humanae Vitae, • Humanae Vitae,

• Deus Caritas Est,

• and the speech of Pope Benedict

XVI to the General Assembly of the

United Nations.

Where education happens…

• Education to human rights goes

beyond classrooms and assemblies.

With the use of TV, internet blog

sites, posters, games, books, music, sites, posters, games, books, music,

art, theatre and other forms of

information dissemination we can

advocate for education, especially,

education to human rights.

How education promotes the

Common Good

• The right to education serves the

common good because it can lift

up persons suffering from different

forms of abuses from theirforms of abuses from their

situation: child labor, drug

addiction, battered women and

children, child soldiers,

How education promotes the

Common Good

• trafficked women and children,

children in armed conflict, children

in conflict with the law, and women

and children in situations ofand children in situations of

poverty and hunger.

Education, Human Rights and

the Common Good

• Education gives non-violent alternatives

to violence and conflict. Education,

especially that of education to human

rights, restores their dignity and rights, restores their dignity and

freedom, fosters respect for self and

others, and develops them in various

aspects of their personality. Their

family, the community, and the society,

in general, will reap the benefits of

educating them.

Initiatives of VIDES

• On a worldwide level, VIDES is a

strong force in the advocacy on

human rights and education. In

the spirit of Don Bosco’s preventive the spirit of Don Bosco’s preventive

system, VIDES volunteers carry on

the task of educating the youth,

especially women and children,

that they may become good

Christians and honest citizens.

Initiatives of VIDES

• Among the activities of VIDES

volunteers are: tutorials for at-risk

high school girls, bible schools,

skills and literacy programs for skills and literacy programs for

women, non-formal education,

clinics, kindergarten schools,

workshops for children, formative

meetings, fund raising for

educational programs,

Initiatives of VIDES

• games, mobile library, summer

camps, catechesis, mission camps,

work among streetchildren,

orphans and migrants, newsletters, orphans and migrants, newsletters,

games, arts and crafts, home visits,

training of volunteers, etc..

VIDES Networking

• VIDES values the importance of

networking with government

organizations, non-government

organizations, faith-based organizations

and peoples’ organizations. Through and peoples’ organizations. Through

networking, VIDES volunteers have

actively participated in seminars,

conferences, advocacies; organized

activities with non-Christians and

peoples from various cultures and

tribes;

VIDES Networking

• coordinated with various

international and national civic

organizations, governments and

parishes for its various programs parishes for its various programs

for women and children; and have

generated funds for all its projects.

Statement of COMMITMENT

• Each FMA, Delegate and VIDES

volunteer present in this workshop

drafted their personal commitment

to render free and generous to render free and generous

service to the various programs of

VIDES in their respective countries

and places of assignment,

particularly in the field of

educating women and children and

making known to them their rights.

Facilitator: VIDES Philippines

• Sr. Maria Josefina S. Carrasco, FMA

• Ms. Mariciel Estacio

• Mr. Jose Maria Paolo Icasas

• Mr. Felimon Pimentel• Mr. Felimon Pimentel

• Mr. Raymund Zapanta

Thank You!

Mabuhay!