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LOCAL Friday 20 November 2020

Children are a blessing

ORANJESTAD — Universal This year, the COVID-19 cri-
Children’s Day is important. sis has resulted in a child
Why? Because today is the rights crisis. The costs of the
day you look at your child pandemic for children are
and be aware of all other immediate and, if unad-
children in the world and dressed, may last a lifetime.
their life. This day you give It’s time for generations to
more importance to the come together to reimag-
rights of each child and the ine the type of world we
blessing this young person want to create. On 20 No-
is. United Nations estab- vember, kids will reimagine
lished Universal Children’s a better world. What will
Day in 1954 to improve you do?
children’s welfare, promote
togetherness and create Children are entitled to
awareness worldwide. have rights and therefore
November 20th is an im- dent of South Africa
portant date. It is the date
in 1959 when the UN Gen- Happy Children’s Dayq
eral Assembly adopted the
Declaration of the Rights of
the Child. It is also the date
in 1989 when the UN Gen-
eral assembly adopted the
Convention on the Rights
of the Child.

“There can be no keener
revelation of a society’s
soul than the way in which
it treats its children.” — Nel-
son Mandela, Former Presi-