Project ABC Justice promotes activities with students

The Project ABC Justice, promoted by APAV and financially supported by the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF) through the Embassy of the United States of America, aims to inform young people aged between 12 and 17 years old about the functioning of the Justice system.

To this effect, an informational and educational website is being designed in a simple way that adapts to the users age and explains how the Justice system functions and the rights of victims of crime. Learning-technology resources have also been developed to conduct informational sessions for young people. With the sessions lasting 80 minutes, different issues are addressed concerning how criminal proceedings operate with a complaint, the investigation phase, the audience of the trial, the sentencing, victims' of crime rights and other factors.

Between the 8th of May and the 12th of June, 14 informative sessions were held, in which 270 students from secondary school participated in. APAV collaborated with different schools from mainland Portugal and the autonomous regions, such as: the Secondary School of Fundao with students between 12 and 15 years old, the Secondary School Jaime Moniz; in Funchal, the Secondary School of Carregal do Sal, Primary School Arrifes, in Ponta Delgado, the Secondary School D. Manuel I, in Beja, the Center of Education and Development D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, the Casa Pia of Lisbon, and the Basic and Secondary School Águas Santas in Maia.

These sessions were followed by a total of 13 study visits to the courts, the Public Security Police Stations, the National Republican Guard and the Victim Support Offices of APAV.

APAV wants to take the opportunity to thank and recognize the participation and availability of all the schools, the judicial authorities and the police, as well as the respective professionals who’ve actively been involved in the ABC Justice Project activity.