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local Saturday 5 November 2022
Fundacion Telefon pa

Hubentud celebrating

International Day of

Children’s Rights

ORANJESTAD – Funda- bate.
cion Telefon pa Hubentud “This way we will give infor-
(Telephone for the Youth mation to the actor, which
in Papiamento) during a is the youth in our commu-
press conference informed nity, regarding children’s
the community regarding rights, rights that they also
activities that they are or- need to respect in other
ganizing to celebrate the children, and how they
International Day of Chil- can stand up for them-
dren’s Rights on the 20th of selves when a person has
November. bad intentions to violate
one of their rights”, Sneek
James Sneek, director of commented.
the foundation, explained veloping the topic of chil- children from first and sec- be sharing information for
that when children learn Shurman Milliard, social dren’s rights and Telefon ond grade will receive les- parents through the televi-
about rights, they learn that worker for Telefon pa pa Hubentud wants to pro- sons from Hunga Teca. sion program “Nos Mainta”
they have rights and other Hubentud, said that he vide assistance. On that Children from fourth, fifth on TeleAruba. For the sixth
people also have rights, is seeing a lot of inter- day they will have differ- and sixth grade from the In- consecutive year, this tele-
and that everyone needs est regarding children’s ent activities for the chil- ternational School of Aruba vision program together
to respect these. They also rights. “Children’s rights is dren as well as the group of will have cinema sessions to with Telefon pa Hubentud
learn when a person has something that Telefon pa teachers. He announced analyze children’s rights. reflects on children’s rights
bad intentions towards Hubentud has been pro- that they will be giving in- on the 20th of November.
them, how to stand for moting for 23 years, and formation to the children Afterwards, IBiSA will help in
themselves. currently we are even pro- regarding their rights, and the aspect of movement, They will bring together
moting these international- for them to also know what because they know that different foundations like
Fundacion Telefon pa ly. We want more children they are celebrating. There children playing and de- Heart-Centered Leadership
Hubentud this year will be to be aware of this, and the are 54 different children’s veloping in sport is also one Foundation, Futura and
celebrating its 23rd anni- first who can learn about rights, Milliard said, and the of their rights to develop Simia, to share together
versary on the 20th of No- this are the various founda- children will become more the mental and physical with Telefon pa Hubentud
vember. It was on this date tions, but also parents and familiar with these. aspect. the importance of the opin-
when for the first time a adults in general”, he said. ion as well as the health of
child in Aruba picked up The foundation is also To conclude the day, they children.
the phone and dialed 131 Milliard commented that speaking to primary school will have a musical with an
and received support and in the same way parties children. There will be dif- international group that Aside from help via tele-
help from the foundation. are held to celebrate oth- ferent opportunities de- goes deep in providing in- phone and e-mail that
er dates, like Halloween pending on their level for formation in a fun way for Telefon pa Hubentud gives
“Currently we are servic- and Carnaval, children’s them to understand what the children. to the children during the
ing not only Aruba, we also rights also need to be cel- their rights are. The smaller year, they also have differ-
provide our services to chil- ebrated with a party. This children will receive help Aside from activities for the ent projects like Chic Chat
dren and young people in is the reason why Telefon from the Fundacion Hunga kids, Telefon pa Hubentud where they approach the
the islands of Sint Eustatius pa Hubentud is organizing Teca, a foundation dedi- wants the entire commu- Center for Development of
and Saba”, Sneek said. these activities, and will be cated to children which nity to become familiar Women to take part in this
hosting a big party. focuses on play, and how with children’s rights dur- project. This involves differ-
This year is an important children develop tools in ing those days. For this ent episodes where they
year for the foundation On the 16th of November their mental and motor sys- reason, Kimberly de Cuba, observe conversations be-
and they will be celebrat- they will have activities at tem while they play. They social worker at the foun- tween female youths aged
ing the International Day of the Hilario Angela school. will join this with the theme dation, said that on the 14 to 17 years, where they
Children’s Rights by orga- The school has been de- of children’s rights, where 18th of November they will share the challenges they
nizing different activities re- are confronting at that
garding children’s rights di- age.
rected at children, youths,
parents and the entire fam- During the program they
ily. have professionals present
The first activity will take from Planned Parenthood
place on the 14th of No- and foundation against
vember at The Movies Glo- drugs FADA to answer
ria, where the International questions and doubts ex-
School of Aruba will be in pressed by the girls. They
one of the rooms and will also receive confessions
be watching different short from youths of Aruba anon-
movies together. After- ymously. This program be-
wards they will expand on gan on the 1st of Novem-
the messages of children’s ber and will be broadcast
rights, which they will ob- on November 8,10,15, 17,
serve in the movies, and 22 and 29, as well as de-
they will also hold a de- cember 6 and 13. q