AMMAN — Director of the Childhood Directorate at the
National Council for Family Affairs Mai Sultan said that about 84.6 percent of
Jordanian children between five and nine years old are subjected to “violent
discipline”, compared to 79.8 percent of children aged 5 or less, and less, according
to Al-Ghad News.
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Sultan also said that 32 percent of Jordanian children
suffer from anemia, and that 16.4 percent of children aged 5 to 11 work.
Speaking at the National Conference on Early Childhood, organized
by the council and held on Tuesday, she said that 2.6 million, nearly a fifth of
the population of the country, was under nine years old in 2021.
According to her, 1.45 million children under the age of
five do not receive health care services, and 37 percent live in the capital,
Amman.
The conference discussed the most prominent response to
challenges related to the problems of education, health and protection systems
for children. Participants came up with a package of recommendations to improve
the institutional performance of caregivers.
Participants reviewed early childhood challenges in the
Kingdom, protection mechanisms, the growing number of cases of violence against
children, gaps in health and education services, deaths and injuries in traffic
accidents.
Minister of Education and of Higher Education and Scientific
Research Ali Mahafza stressed the importance of the national strategy for human
resource development, which places special focus on early education, complementing
the strategic plan of the Ministry of Education, and the stipulations in the
Economic Modernization Vision.
He pointed out that the ministry has sought to implement
tangible steps that contribute to human development, as part of its policies in
support of kindergartens, stressing that interest in childhood is also a
translation of the Royal vision for childhood care, as an essential pillar for
achieving sustainable human development.
The conference was organized in cooperation with Plan
International, the Royal Health Awareness Society, and other members of the
National Team for Early Childhood Development who represent national
governmental, non-governmental and international organizations concerned with
childhood affairs.
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