Children

Now that you have managed to make it through the Thanksgiving holiday, fat and happy your mind has begun to drifted away from thoughts of turkey and stuffing, and not to mention pumpkin pie, to thoughts of holiday giving. This year most of our wallets are not as fat as they once were and charitable […]

When one mentions war ones first thought drifts to Iraq, and then one may think of the DRC thanks to recent media coverage, however the continual plague of war in many countries, including Afghanistan, continues. While attention has long since faded since the October 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the country remains engrossed in conflict, and […]

“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, – the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”  – Horace Mann (1796,1859) American educational reformer, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1827-1833) and Senate (1834-1837). Education is truly the key to equality, and with equality one will […]

Education is the one sure ticket out of poverty for millions of children around the world. Yet while we know that knowledge is power, there are still 72 million children globally who do not have access to quality schooling. However the power behind education is not just found in giving one access to an education, […]

Thankfully for the future and our global security children are increasingly being brought into the fight against climate change. Earlier this month, on 14 November, The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) enlisted the help of North American youth to help tackle climate change at a summit in Chicago. The educational campaign, "Kick the Carbon Habit", […]

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Gandhi Open the door for children, by working to see the change in the world that will enable them to have a future of hope and prosperity. Giving children hope along with the tools for the future will not only open the door […]

Today, November 20th, marks the day on which the United Nations Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989. Universal Children's Day. In a press release UNICEF USA issed an appeal to the public to get involved with the Presidential Initiative target […]

Many of the world have been suddenly been drawn together regardless of what side of the abortion issue they stand on.  What has united activists from all sides?  The sudden brake of the story of Arzigul Tursun, a Uyghur woman living near Ghulja in East Turkestan (also known as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the […]

What turns the "I will be's" of childhood into, the "I could be's"? Poverty, gender inequality, war, and disease all take the "will be" out of many children's future, but the true dark shadow that continues to plague millions of children every year is lack of access to adequate education. Education is the key to […]

 On the 20th of November we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and what better way to celebrate and bring attention to children's rights then to publish a children's version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We Are All Born Free is a picture book celebrating […]

The extreme toll that the fighting in the Congo has taken on children is only beginning to emerge. In all conflict children are the hardest hit, but the severity of the situation in the Congo highlights the country's ability to handle the capacity of those affected. Children who have either been orphaned or lost in […]

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." – Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), German Lutheran Pastor who participated in German Resistance movement against Nazism. The inheritance of our morality is truly that of a child's, it is not merely leaving children the ruins of war, for […]