World Children’s Day was established in1954. It is celebrated on 20 November.
Aim: Promote:
International togetherness
Awareness among children
Improvement of children’s welfare
1959: The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was adopted by UN Assembly.
1990: UN General Assembly adopted both the Declaration and the Convention on Children’s Rights.
Covid 19 has turned the world helter-skelter.. Children have been the worst sufferers. Illness, malnutrition, dwindling opportunities for education, increasing child labour due to spiralling poverty and lack of purchasing power of people, etc.
Children are a family’s joy. A nation’s future! The world’s citizens!
Let us love children. Respect their rights. Promote their welfare. Guide them into creativity. Discipline them with gentle hands and inspiring examples. Thus we shall see their horizon widening. Their future unfolding into the vista of sunshine!