Tag: children

Giving Tuesday is about giving (surprise, surprise). After a weekend of eating (Thanksgiving in the US) and shopping (Black Friday and Cyber Monday) like crazy, today is a day to give back. Being grateful that you have enough food to eat and enough money to spend, now is the perfect time to donate to your favourite charity. It doesn’t have to be a huge amount of money, most organizations take any small amount that you have. What I always keep repeating is if everybody who can spare just $5 would give $5 from time to time, most of the world’s problems…

un-library: In 1954, the General Assembly recommended that all member states institute a Universal Children’s Day to promote the welfare of all children and advocate for understanding and solidarity between all children. 20 November marks the anniversary of the adoption of the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child and 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. Further Resources UNICEF’s annual State of the World’s Children report UNICEF’s Voices of Youth platform for young activitists United Nations CyberSchoolbus for teaching and learning Above image is credited to Sophia Paris and was retrieved from unmultimedia.org/photo

Nothing is more important than investing in a country’s children. A country that ignores or neglects its children destroys its own potential. A country that cares for and nurtures its children will definitely be strong. Ban Ki-moon (via kimzii)