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Lifes aspirations comein the guise of children.

FUTURE:: RABINDRANDATH TAGORE ::

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SGI-USA has created thisexhibit to illustrate some ofthe points in the resolutionand to create dialogueabout the rights of childrenthroughout the world.

We hope that people of allages can learn from thisexhibit and from oneanother. Together we canfoster safe, healthy, andhappy childrentheleaders of tomorrow.

A W O R L D F I T F O R C H I L D R E N

CHILDRENIn 2002, the

United Nationsadopted a

Resolution calledA World Fit for

Children.


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The Rights of

:: Cynthia Barreda Vilchez, Age 9, Peru ::

I wish all adults wouldhave a great heart thatthey will alwaysunderstand the children.

global champion forchildrens rights. It is theonly internationalorganization workingspecifically for children andchildrens rights.

UNICEF makes a lastingdifference in the lives ofchildren and their families

by working withcommunities andinfluencing governments inmore than 160 countries.

UNICEF works to ensurechildrens rights to healthand nutrition; education;emergency relief; protection;and water and sanitation.

UNICEF depends onvoluntary contributions fromgovernments and individuals,

and fundraising, includingthe sale of greeting cards andother merchandise.

UNICEF is a driving force forpeople throughout theworld working to ensure abetter future for children.

The United

NationsChildrensFund 1924

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1959

1989

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2002

ChildrenUNICEF is a

The Geneva Declaration of the Rights ofthe Child contains basic protections forchildren.

The United Nations Universal Declarationof Human Rights includes special careand assistance for children.

The United Nations Childrens Fund(UNICEF) is made a permanent part ofthe United Nations

The United Nations Declaration of theRights of the Child is adopted.

The Convention on the Rights of theChild, the most widely accepted humanrights treaty in history, is adoptedunanimously by the United NationsGeneral Assembly.

UNICEF sponsors The World Summit forChildren, the first global meetingdedicated to improving childrens lives.

The UN Millennium Development Goalsspecify targets related to children, includingachieving universal primary education.

The Special Session of the UN GeneralAssembly on Children is convened to review

progress since 1990 and re-energize the globalcommitment to childrens rights.

CarolBellamy,executivedirectorof theUnitedNationsChildrensFund(UNICEF)

Foodandsupplies areunloadedat anorphanagerunby UNICEFinLiberia.

Orphansbeingtransportedto aUNICEForphanageinGoma, Zaire.

Childrengettinga checkupata UNICEFmedicalclinicin As-Sulaymaniyah,Iraq.


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A WorldFit forChildren

Together we will build a world inwhich all girls and boys can enjoy

childhooda time of play andlearning, in which they are loved,

respected and cherished...

:: UN Resolution S-27/2, May 2002 ::

MillenniumDevelopmentGoals

Children are at the heart of oneand every Millennium

Development Goal, beginningwith the battle against poverty.

:: Hilde F. Johnson, Minister of InternationalDevelopment, Norway ::

In 2002 the United Nations issued aMillennium Declaration, setting out the hopesof member nations for a peaceful world with adecent standard of living for all.

The Millennium Development goals are to:

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Ensure environmental sustainability Develop a global partnership for development

TheConventionon the Rightsof the Child

The Convention on the Rights of the Child,

adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1989, is aninternational human rights treaty that places childrenat the center of the quest for the universal applicationof human rights.

The Convention is the most universally acceptedhuman rights instrument in historyit has beenratified by every country in the world except two:Somalia and the United States.

The Convention spells out the basic human rightsthat children everywherewithout discriminationhave: the right to survival; to develop to the fullest;to protection from harmful influences, abuse andexploitation; and to participate fully in family, culturaland social life.

Lifes aspirations comein the guise of children.

:: Rabindranath Tagore ::

In 2002 more than 7,000 peopleparticipated in the Special Session of the UN

General Assembly on Children. The nations of the

world committed themselves to a series of goalsto improve the situation of children and youngpeople.

Some 180 nations adopted the document,A World Fit for Children.

The new agenda forand withthe world's children,included 21 specific goals and targets for the nex tdecade. The agenda focused on four key priorities:promoting healthy lives; providing quality education for all; protecting children against abuse, exploitation andviolence;combating HIV/AIDS.

The document called upon all of us to join in a globalmovement to build a world fit for children.


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The 2002 United Nations SpecialSession on Children was uniquethe first timechildren were official delegates to such a session.

More than 400 children and adolescents,representing 154 countries, met before thesession in a Childrens Forum. All the participantshad been selected through competitions inschools or communities.

The young people took part indecisions, discussions, mediaevents and celebrations. Theydiscussed ways for childrento work with governments

and organizations to makethe world a better place.

Two children selected by thegroup presented thestatement, A World Fit for Us,at the opening of the GeneralAssembly debate, formally addressingthe Assembly on behalf of children for the firsttime in the United Nations history.

Child Delegatesto UN Special Session

1 Leave no child out2 Put children first3 Care for every child4 Fight HIV/AIDS5 Stop harming & exploiting children6 Listen to children

7 Educate every child8 Protect children from war9 Protect the earth for children

10 Fight poverty: invest in children

The 10

Imperatives forChildren

Drafted by youth delegatesat the UNs Special Session onChildren, May 2002

GabrielaAzurduyArrietameets withKofiAnnanduringtheUNs SpecialSessionforChildren.


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VietnameseBoy LosesHand

and Leg

hen Phan Van Rotwas 14 years oldhe walked downto the stream near

his house in the village ofQuet Thang in Viet Nam tocheck his familys fish traps.He noticed a strange objectin the water. Rot picked it upto look at it more closely andit exploded in his hand. It wasa cluster bomb, left in thearea by US Navy attacks

many years ago.

The bomb took off Rots lefthand above the wrist and his

left leg below the knee.He also had many internalinjuries, and his family didntexpect him to live. Aninternational charity providedfunds for Rot to be treated ata local hospital, and willmake sure that he gets thetreatment he needs, and anew hand and leg.

Rots family is very poor, andthough he will have

treatment and artificial limbs,it will take a lot of courageand perseverance for him tosucceed in his new life.

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90 percent of domestic workers, the largest group of childworkers in the world, are girls between 12 and 17 years old.

There are between 120 million and 150 million children and young people with

disabilities in the world. It is estimated that less than 2 percentof them go to school.

In Japan, by law, children born out of wedlock only inherit halfof what children born to married couples receive.

In Bulgaria, 42% of the Roma, a minority subjected to racism, prejudice

and rejection, have not completed basic education. In Bosnia and Herzegovina

up to 80% of Roma children are not enrolled in school.

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LeaveNo ChildOut

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Every girl and boy is bornfree and equal, with dignityand rights. All forms ofdiscrimination affectingchildren must end.

Children are discriminated againstin large and small ways all over the world.They and their human rights are often ignored.Basic efforts on behalf of childrenin education,health care, and ending child povertyoften comelast. In many parts of the world, girls are particulartargets of discrimination. Children with specialneeds require special services.

What can you do to ensure the fair andequal treatment of children in your community?

Whole groups of children arebeing denied a future becauseof the color of their skin, their

physical/intellectual

characteristics, their ancestryand their gender.

:: Zuhy Sayeed ::

Hanoi

HoChiMinhCity

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abriela AzurduyArrieta, 13, fromBolivia, was one oftwo delegates to the

2002 United Nations SpecialSession on Children selectedto deliver a message to theGeneral Assembly. It was thefirst time that children hadaddressed a formal sessionof the United Nations.

We are children whose

voices are not being heard:it is time we are taken intoaccount, Gabriela said. Weare united by our struggle to

make the world a better placefor all. You call us the future,but we are also the present.

Children all over the world,despite many difficulties, aretaking charge of their ownlives, creating networks, andinfluencing policy.

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It is all of our responsibilityfromgovernments to children themselves

to ensure that childrens rightsare respected.

Adults must examine their priorities in everyarena to ensure that children come first.Childrens needs are often the last consideredthey are the most powerless members of acommunity. The voices of children andadolescents must be heard in every organization,agency and government that affects their lives.

What are you doingto ensure thatchildrens rights are respected and that childrenare heard in your community?

When I approach a child, heinspires in me two sentiments;tenderness for what he is, and

respect for what he may become.

:: Louis Pasteur ::

At the UN Special Session on Children in 2000 more than 400 children

from 154 nations attended the Childrens Forum, where they explored ways toexpand childrens rights.

Voices of Youth, a UNICEF sponsored Internet discussion site, has reachedthousands of young people in more than 180 countries.

Almost half of Iraqs total population is children under 18. The war in Iraqputs children at particular risk. UNICEFs key priorities in Iraq are therecovery of basic health services and the immediate opening of classrooms.

PutChildrenFirst

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Kid PowerEverywhere

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yan Hreljac lives inCanada. He was 6

years old when histeacher told his class

about people in Africa whohad a hard time getting cleanwater and access to wells.

Without clean water, people,especially children, can getsick and sometimes die.

Ryan asked his parents forextra chores so that he could

earn money to dig wells inAfrica. Soon he discoveredthat one well cost $2,000,but he wasnt discouraged.He began to make speeches

and helped to raise moreand more money. Hisorganization, RyansWell.comeventually helped to raisenearly a million dollars.

Ryan says, I have learnedthat every child needs certainthings if they are going to behealthy and happy no matterwhere they live. Kids needclean water and sanitation,they need enough food to

eat, they need to be able togo to school, and they needa chance to play and havefun. That way they can helpout in the world too.

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CareFor EveryChild

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We can ensure that everychild has the best possiblestart in lifegood health,

proper nutrition, and a

safe environment.

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In India 47% of children under 5 are classified as underweight.

Half of all deaths from whooping cough, a third of all cases of polio and

a quarter of all deaths from measles occur in children under oneyear old.

More than half of child deaths are associated with malnutritionwhich weakens the body's resistance to illness

Diarrhea kills over 1 million children every year throughdehydration and malnutrition. About 1 in every 200 children who contract

diarrhea will die from it.

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RyanWorks forClean

Water inAfrica

If we dont stand up forchildren, then we dont

stand for much.

:: Marian Wright Edelman ::

Ottawa

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Medical knowledgehas advanced to the point that no childneeds to suffer or die from commonchildhood diseases. There is enough moneyand food on the planet to feed or providesupplements to every child. Yet every year, over10 million children under the age of five diefrom readily preventable and treatable illnessessuch as dehydration as a result of diarrhea, acuterespiratory infection, measles, and malaria.In half of the cases, illness is complicated by

malnutrition. Accidents kill or seriously injure largenumbers of children in both wealthy and poor nations.

Do your children,and otherchildren in your community,

have up-to-dateimmunizations?


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FightHIV/AIDS

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SouthAfrican Boy

InspiresOthers

We must protect children andtheir families from thedevastating impact of

HIV/AIDS.

People who live in wealthy nationsoften dont know about the horrifying impactthat HIV/AIDS is having throughout the world.The statistics listed here are only a small

indicationof the

worldwide effects of this scourge. Complicatedby misinformation and discrimination, AIDSimpacts children everywhere.

While there are now many drugs on the marketthat effectively control AIDS, few of these areavailable or affordable in poor countries. Africahas 70 percent of the adults, and 80 percentof the children in the world who are livingwith HIV/AIDS, but the disease is also out of

control in many other parts of the world.A UN report says Low visibility of thedisease is no guarantee that it i s notspreading.

Do the childrenin your life haveaccurate information on how AIDS istransmitted?

My friend with AIDSis still my friend.

:: Xolani Nkosi ::

Two million children live with AIDS and over 15 million havebeen orphaned by AIDS, most of them in sub-Sahran Africa.

One third of the 2 million children living with HIV were infected throughbreastfeeding.

Fourteen million children under the age of 15 have lost one or bothparents to AIDS. By 2010, this number is expected to exceed 25 million.

One in four people between 15 and 49 in Southern Africa isliving with HIV.

olani Nkosi was bornwith HIV in SouthAfrica, where morethan 70,000

children are born HIV-positiveevery year. Gail Johnson, avolunteer at an AIDS center,fell in love with the wide-eyedtwo year old Zulu boy. Shearranged to become hisfoster mother.

When Johnson tried to send

Nkosi to primary school,some parents opposed hisenrollment because he wasHIV-positive. Johnsoncomplained publicly andwon her case. Nkosi wentto school.

Nkosi fought against hisdisease and for otherchildren. He became anational figure in thecampaign to help people tounderstand AIDS. In July2000 Nkosi addresseddelegates at the internationalAIDS conference in Durban.Please help people withAIDS, he said. Supportthem, love them, care forthem.

Nkosi died on June 1, 2001.He was 12 years old, and anational hero.

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S O U T H A F R I C A

CapeTown

Pretoria

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StopHarming &ExploitingChildren

I M P E R A T I V E N U M B E R F I V E

5More than 1 million children worldwide are livingin detention as a result of being in conflict with the law.

246 million children work, with about 180 millionengaged in the worst forms of child labor.

Two million children are exploited throughprostitution and pornography

Forty million children below the age of 15 sufferfrom abuse and neglect.

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IqbalsStory

We are guilty of many errors and

many faults, but our worst crimeis abandoning our children...To them we cannot answer

Tomorrow. Their nameis Today.

:: Gabriel Mistral ::

hen Iqbal Masihwas four years oldhe went to work ina filthy carpet

factory in Pakistan. As hegrew older, he was chainedto a loom and worked twelvehours a day, six days a week.

In 1993, when Iqbal was tenyears old, he went to ameeting sponsored by theBonded Labor Liberation

Front. There he learned thatchildren had rights. He spokeabout his suffering, and hisspeech was printed in thelocal paper.

Iqbal went to school andbecame a leader. He traveledand made speeches. Hetaught other children abouttheir rights, and helped tofree many thousands ofchildren from bonded labor.

His dream was to grow upto become a lawyer. But hisactivities made him a targetof the carpet industry.In 1995, when he was

twelve years old, Iqbal wasassassinated while ridinghis bike.

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PA KI S T A N

Violence and abuse must bestopped now. The sexual and

economic exploitation ofchildren must end.

Islamabad

Multan

P A K I S T A N

Look forthe Rugmark label on rugs.It certifies that child labor was not used

in the manufacture of the carpet.

If you know or suspecta child has been abused,

neglected, or exploited,contact an appropriate

agency right away.

There are so many ways thatchildren are harmed and exploitedthroughout the world that it can seemoverwhelming. All around us children arebeing abused and neglected. Yet there isalways something that you can do to help,often in your own community. Even seeminglysmall thingsoffering child care for a stressed-outfriend or volunteering in a youth groupcan have big results.


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ListentoChildren

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Kenyan GirlSpeaks to

UNGeneral

Assembly

Respect the rights of children andyoung people to express themselves

and to participate in making thedecisions that affect them.

Todays children are the leadersand citizens of tomorrow. Yet childrensvoices are missing from most of thebodies that make decisions that affecttheir lives. It is critical that childrens viewsbe sought out and considered, from thehighest levels of government to the dailyfunctions of family life.

Listening is only one step; adultsshould also take action basedon childrens input.

Listening to children andencouraging their

participation in decision-making helps

to give them the experience they needto lead effectively and contributeresponsibly as adults.

Are therechildren on the governingcouncils of the schools, churches, and otherorganizations with which you are involved?

How muchdo children participatein your familys decisions, large and small?

The first duty of loveis to listen.

:: Paul Tillich ::

UNICEF supports 23 weekly programs on Radio Mozambique,in 12 local languages, all written and produced by 27 children. Program

topics range from childrens rights to HIV/AIDS.

In Madagascar in 2004, 90 school children presented an action plan to the

National Assembly. One student said that the experience made me forget

that I am poor becauseat least someone has listened to me.

In a 2001 UNICEF survey, adolescents said that they want to participate in

decision-making processes concerning their lives. 86.7% of adolescent boys

and 89.6% of adolescent girls want more say in family decisions.

ennifer Jadwero, a 14-year-old Kenyan girl,addressed the UNSpecial Session on

Children in 2002. She talkedabout the many differentkinds of discriminationagainst girl children.

Jennifer described how shestarted a club in her school.She asked both boys and girlsto work together against

violence. Jennifer said, Theproblem of gender-baseddiscrimination is not just amatter of a few bad boys andmen but is a problem ofour societys social make-up.

So to find a solution to theproblem, both girls and boys,women and men, must worktogether.

Jennifer said, If one child istold, and that child tellsanother child, the messagecan be spread rapidly.

Jennifer was invited to speakat a conference on violenceagainst women, and has now

helped to start clubs aroundthe world.

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Nairobi

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Every childall girls andboys must be allowed

to learn.

Children are born eager to learn. All too often they do not have

access to education. Today, more than 110 million school-age childrenworldwide, mostly girls, are not going to school and millions moreare receiving poor quality education.

A quality, basic education is every childs fundamental right. Childrenfrom families without money are entitled to an education. Girls areentitled to an education. So are children who must work, children

of ethnic minorities, children with disabilities, and children affectedby violence, conflict or HIV/AIDS.

More than 15 percent of poor girls between seven and 18 have

never been to school of any kind.

Infants born to mothers with no formal education are twiceas likely to die before their first birthday thanare babies born to mothers with post-primary school education.

One million children and adolescents aged 12 to 17 are still

unable to read and write. More than 121 million children neversee the inside of a classroom.

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MakkaGoes toSchool

Education is notfilling a bucket but

lighting a fire.

:: William Butler Yeats ::

EducateEveryChild

akka AdoumDaoud, is an 11-year-old girl. She and hermother escaped

from war in the Sudan, andnow live in a crowdedrefugee camp in Chad.More than 8,200 Sudaneserefugees, the majoritywomen and children, livehere in a hot desert.

But the children have

classroomsmade of woodframes and plastic sheets.They sit on the bare floorusing school supplies

donated by UNICEF. Nobodycomplainsthey are happyto be able to go to school.

For Makka, school is veryimportant. My mother didnot go to school, she says.She was going after thecattle. Now with theseterrible events, she has losther cattle and she hasnothing left. If she had beento school, she would not

have lost her knowledge.Thats why I want to go toschool and learn how to readand write.

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S U D A N

Do yousupport or

volunteer in your localschools? How are youhelping your school-agechildren to enjoy theirschool years and stay inschool?

Khartoum

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ProtectChildrenfrom War

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ZlatasDiary

Millions of children are witnesses,combatants, or victims of warfare every year.Hundreds of thousands lose parents or otherfamily members. Even when they are notdirectly involved, children suffer from theeffects of war.

After the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, a clinicalpsychologist said, Among the symptomsmanifested by children are nightmares, difficultyin concentrating, depression and a sense ofhopelessness about the future. Everywhere in theworld, children worry about war, conflict and violence.

Do youtalk to the children in your lifeabout their fears?

At any one time, 300,000 children under the age of 18 are

serving as child soldiers.

Since 1990, more than 2 million childrenhave been killed in wars, 6 million have beenseriously injured and more than 22 million have been driven

from their homes.

In Cambodia children account for up to 50% of landmine

casualties. In Somalia more than 55% of landminevictims are children.

Sixteen of the worlds 20 poorest countrieshave suffered a major civil war in the past 15 years.

lata Filipovic was 11years old when civilwar began in Bosnia.She kept a diary from

1991 to 1993.

Zlata wrote about her life ina city without food, electricityor water, and worst of all, thedeath of her best friend in abomb attack. One day shewrote, War has crossed outthe day and replaced it with

horror, and now horrors areunfolding instead of days.

It looks to me, she wrote,as though these politicsmean Serbs, Croats andMuslims. But they are allpeople. They are all thesame.

Zlata and her family escapedto safety in Paris in 1992. Herdiary has been published in20 languages. Zlata and herparents started a charity tohelp the victims of the

Bosnian war, especially thechildren of Sarajevo.

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B OS N I A & H ERZ EG OV I N A

Sarajevo

B O S N I A &

H E R Z E G O V I N A

No child shouldexperience the horrors

of armed conflict

When will ourconsciences grow so

tender that we will act toprevent human miseryrather than avenge it?

:: Eleanor Roosevelt ::


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Protect theEarth forChildren

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Nearly two million children every year die from water-borne diseases. Another two million die of acute respiratory infections

resulting from air pollution.

One-third of global disease can be attributed toenvironmental risk factors. Over 40% of diseases caused by

environmental factors affect children under five years of age.

In a UNICEF survey, 26% of children polled inEurope and Asia would like their country to be a place in whichthere is no pollution. Environmental issues such as poor lighting and

high levels of traffic were cited by 20 per cent of European and

Central Asian children who feel unsafe in their neighborhoods.

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Native

Youth isEnviron-

mentalActivist

hen VernerWilson, an AlaskaYupik Native, was15 years old he

attended a meetingsponsored by the National

Wildlife Fund. The meetinginspired him to become anenvironmental activist. He isalso determined to preservehis culture.

Verner is soft-spoken, but

passionate. He makesspeeches, writes newspapereditorials and letters, and hasstarted an environmental

youth group in hishometown, a small, coastalcommunity where fishing isa way of life. Verner caresdeeply about issues liketoxins in subsistence foods,pesticides, and farmed fish.He sees these issues asthreatening his Nativeway of life.

Verner was nominated for astatewide Spirit of Youth

award for his efforts.

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A L A S K A

Anchorage

Juneau

A L A S K A

Safeguard the environment atglobal, national and local levels.

We do notinherit the earth

from our ancestors,we borrow it

from our children.

:: Native American Proverb ::

Childrenare theprimary victims ofmany of the effects of

the deterioration of thenatural environment. They

will also have to deal with everyproblem that we do not solve.

Do youand your children recycle,conserve energy and water, use public

transportation, walk or ride yourbike? What other

earth-friendly thingscan you do?

Air and water pollution,overpopulation, global warming, thedisposal of hazardous waste, acid rain and thedestruction of the rain forest threaten us all.

There is no such thing as a local problemenvironmental issues affect everyone.Interconnections are evident in the natural world.

We must face environmentalissues and look forsolutions.


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anessa Burton is16 and a busyvolunteer in herhometown of

Atlanta, Georgia. Sheconducts church tutorials,teaches preschool childrenwith challenges, and servesfood at homeless shelters onSaturday mornings.

Vanessa had never been onan airplane before she and

her group, from CARE CorpsTeens, took off for a ruralvalley outside Lima, Peru.

Vanessa helped to harvest

artichokes, tried weaving ona wooden loom, and taughtchildren about hand washingand recycling. She and herfriends worked with shovelsand pickaxes to help villagersbring clean water to theirhomes.

It's given me a new respectfor hardworking people,

Vanessa said.

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American

Teens Work

with Children

in Peru

Invest in services that benefitthe poorest children and

their families.What shall I give my

children who are poor?Who are adjudged the

leastwise of the land

:: Gwendolyn Brooks ::

A child born today in the developing world has a 4 out of 10 chanceof living in extreme poverty.

Malnutrition in children under two causes permanentand irreversible damage on the body and mind. Babies who arepoor and malnourished are more likely to contract respiratory infections,

diarrhea, and measles.

Less than 50% of the population in 18 countries uses improved drinking

water sources. Children are particularly susceptible towater-born diseases.

FightPoverty:Invest

inChildren

Childrenare the chief victims ofpoverty all over the world. Even inwealthy countries poor children lackbasic health and educational resources.In some countries, many children liveon the streets, begging, sellinggoodsor themselves.

Investing in children pays largedividends.

Do you donatetime or moneyto a favorite charity that providesservices to poor children?

Can you influencepolicy infavor of poor children in yourcommunity?

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Talara

Lima

TrujilloP E R U


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Moving Futureinto

the

We will leada global movementfor children that creates an unstoppable

momentum for change...

:: Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1990 ::

It is the obligation of every person toinsure that all children are raised in what theUnited Nations has called the spirit of peace,dignity, tolerance, freedom, and equality.

When each of us takes responsibilityto create change, our effortsare like ripples in a pondthat can radiate out tothe whole world.

What can you do?

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