OUR MISSIONS:
We'll need the help of grownups. Here are some ways that we think grownups can help:
1. Stop abusing children.
2. Give food to hungry kids.
3. Work for us-meet the basic needs of all kids.
4. Tell us things we should do and shouldn't. Give us an idea of good ways to live in this world.
5. Commit yourselves to children's futures and to the future of the world.
6. Listen to us kids and to one another. Take time to listen, not just go through the motions but hear.
7. Be more caring and careful.
8. Care less about money and more about people and the world.
9. Plant trees.
10. Help recycle.
11. Don't waste natural or human resources.
12. Work for better public transportation.
13. Ban ozone and harmful chemicals.
14. Help stop pollution.
15. Don't deal drugs.
16. Don't deal weapons or bombs.
17. Ratify and enforce the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
18. Guide children rather than govern them.
19. Spend time with kids. Listen to their problems.
20. Know when you have a drug or alcohol abuse problem and try to help yourself and your kids.
21. Work for changes in the world so that all people and kids get treated fairly.
22. Stop spending money for unnecessary things like long limousines, arms shipments and bombs. Spend money to take care of the "needs" of the kids and the "needs" of grownups.
23. Love us.
24. Educate us.
25. Respect us.
26. Understand us.
27. Govern with us in mind.
28. Model for us the way to live.
29. Discuss problems with one another. Work together to take action.
30. Work with us to change things.
31. What can governments do? World leaders can help kids. Why don't they? We ask all of you to help us.
32. Really listen to the children in your country.
33. Talk with kids about kids' problems.
34. Ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
35. Work together so that no kid in the world has to be hungry or stay out of school or die in a war or because there wasn't enough good health care.
Make a world where no kids have to live on the streets or work long hours in factories because their families don't have enough money to live.
Help make a world where every kid can be loved.
36.Make peace with other people, and good international laws.
Stick to those laws.
37. There are lots of ways to help kids and families.
Working together, people of all different countries can share good ideas and provide help for people-for parents who abuse their kids, for families that are having a hard time or for kids when they are in trouble.
We believe it is very important for kids and grownups to begin to work together from countries all over the world.
When we met at the International Children's Congresses-from almost every country-we were surprised to see how much more alike we were than different, and how quickly we could begin to talk and work.
Many of us are especially worried about war and the preparations for war.
Money should not be spent for bombs and weapons, but for good things.
We all have the right to a safe world so we need to stop fighting and threatening one another.
We want adults to listen to us and think about what is happening.
We want them to stop people from sending children into war.
We want them to understand how children feel about this.
We need to help each other and we need to start talking.
We want to work to be sure that no kids ever have to participate in wars.
No kids of 18 or under. And no grownups either.
We want no war period.
We believe that it is possible to make a much better world but we will need to work very hard and we will need to work together.
First, we need to stop even thinking about war
. Then, we need to take the world's resources and use them wisely.
To feed, and clothe and house and take good care of the world's people.
All the people.
Right now we are starting with the world's children.
We are glad that kids and grownups are working together today in such an important effort to help the world's children.
We ask our government's leaders to ratify and enforce the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Work to feed and care for all kids everywhere.
Make a fair and peaceful world where we can grow and take good care of one another.
We, the kids of the world, promise that we will help you.
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