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about us26-12-2011
“RODA – Roditelji u akciji” (Parents in Action) is a group of concerned citizens interested in promoting and protecting rights to a dignified pregnancy, parenthood and childhood in Croatia. Through our work we have become publicly recognised in the following fields: the right to adequate maternity leave compensation and the right to parental leave, medically-assisted conception, pregnancy and improving conditions for childbirth, breastfeeding promotion, education and counselling, education and support for parents and future parents, children's road safety as well as representing and preserving children's and parent's rights during child’s hospitalisation. Roda’s mission is to change society into a one that would be more responsible towards children, parents, future parents and families – through providing information, education, advocacy and active participation in the processes of changes, as well as through encouraging parents and other society groups to revise actual situation and take a part in the process of changes. Roda has early on recognized that our society and institutions responsible for the care of children give insufficient attention to breastfeeding - the only natural way of infant's nutrition. Due to multiple benefits for child, mother and family in whole, one of the primary activities of Roda is promotion and support of breastfeeding. For already five years, Roda has been continuously providing breastfeeding support and consultation through emergency call service and breastfeeding support groups. Other breastfeeding related activities include public marking of the Breastfeeding Week and regular monthly maintaining of the workshops known under the name Little School of Breastfeeding. In October 2007, we have organised the first Roda’s Dairy Conference. Through the participation in the work of National Committee for Breastfeeding, we contribute to creating the national breastfeeding policy. In the area of breastfeeding protection, we monitor both, compliance with the International Code for Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes as well as implementation of the respective regulations into Croatian low. We take a part in the UNICEF’s The Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative where we see the first progress towards achieving the institutional prerequisites for the protection of breastfeeding in Croatia. We consider very important also a program related to the labour. In this area, we actively work on the changes within the health system, directed towards enabling natural and undisturbed birth in Croatia. Roda’s great desire is adoption of the birth procedures that would humanize the process of birth, enable uninterrupted contact of mother and child during a stay in the hospital, and unload the health system. In November 2008, we have organised the first Workshop for pregnant women and their partners. Within the Medically Assisted Conception project, we work towards increasing public awareness about the problem of medically assisted conception, inform and educate couples with infertility problems, make a pressure on the relevant institutions to extend the rights of patients faced with the problem of infertility, make a pressure on lawmakers for passing the Law about medically assisted conception, and solve other problems related to infertility. The goal of the program Safely in the car seat is to educate parents and general public about the importance of children’s safety in the vehicle and about the importance of using a car seat with the aim of preventing serious and mortal injuries of children in the collisions. The most important activities within the program are providing information and assistance to parents in the use of car seats, cooperation with legislators, health care institutions and other who care about the protection of children's health, and advocacy at the relevant institutions responsible for the quality of car seats on the market. Our youngest project - the promotion of cloth diapers as a healthy, environmentally and financially more acceptable option for the family – has resulted with the production of cloth diapers "Rodin pusa", which, along with Roda’s sale of second-hand children's clothing and equipment, aims at establishing a good foundation for financial sustainability of our other projects. The ability of our association to financially support the majority of projects and activities without the external donations is surely one of the reasons of our visibility and our growth. We systematically monitor the status of the rights of pregnant women, parents, families and children and we, in many ways, point out failures, suggest ways to correct flaws and actively work on social changes. Through numerous activities, we increase society’s consciousness about the rights of (future) parents, particularly within the health system. We advocate for better general rights, the right to make a choice, the right to adequate parental leave, the rights of pregnant women, women who give birth, mothers and children, and for the protection of reproductive rights and health. Our children are our future, but we cannot allow the care of our children to be entrusted to the future. We strive to present all our activities and projects on RODA's Internet portal and forum in order to use these ever more easily accessible media to bring about changes in thinking to our target groups, to educate them and create a critical mass of citizens who will affect social changes.
There is nothing stronger than the strength of connected mothers.
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