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     The United Nations General Assembly passed a 
     
     Igsolution in l9h6 establishing the UN International 
     
     mfildren's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). The agency was 
     
     Charged then with the responsibility of raising a fund 
     
     0 provide relief for the suffering children in war— 
     
     devastated Europe: In 1953 the UN General Assembly 
     
     Oted to continue the fund indefinitely and also to 
     
     iden the scope of UNICEF'S activities to inClude 
     
     rogrammes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America as 
     
    

    
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     In 1959 the UN General Assembly adopted what it 
     
    

    
     alled The Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 
     
     mating that "Mankind owes the child the best it has 
     
    

    
     0 give....All children without any exception whatever, 
     
     Jmll be entitled to these rights, without distinction 
     
     fl~discrimination". UNICEF was then given the 
     
     esponsibility to implement children's rights. 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
            
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
          
     
    
   
   
    
     At the UNICEF Executive Board meeting in Manila in. 
     
     9T3 the year 1979 was declared as The International 
     
     ear of the Child. The goals set out then were for 
     
     1w national evaluatiOn of children's needs and 
     
     ervices, and the programming of more extended and 
     
     imtained services for children. The board 
     
     nphasiZed the need for every country to launch 
     
     .fiicial and popular action on the national plane, 
     
     ad for UNICEF to help this to become the starting 
     
     Oint for lasting action. ' 
     
    

    
     Here in Canada, the Canadian UNICEF Committee and 
     
    
   
   
    
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     "the Canadian Red cross Society worked jointly to 
     
    
   
   
    
     produce a programme for the International Year of 
     
     the Child. The programme was aimed at fostering 
     
     healthy attitudes in Canadian youths towards the 
     
     people of other worlds. The Canadian International 
     
     Development Agency and others funded the programme 
     
     whose activities included Teacher Training Workshops,. 
     
     the availability of learning materials with ideas about 
     
     the International Year of the Child, a series of 
     
     television and radio programs, and the dedication of 
     
     the United Nations Day, October 2h, to a look at how 
     
     children around the world relate to Canada and its 
     
     Young people. ' 
     
    

    
     An interesting highlight of the program on October 
     
     2h was the enlightening of four schools on PEI as 
     
     undertaken by some international students from UPEI. 
     
     Anybody who had the opportunity to visit one of these 
     
     schools would Surely know by the display of the 
     
     children that they did a lot of research with the help 
     
     of their teachers. This obviously must have helped 
     
     both the children and their teachers to understand 
     
     some basic facts of life about the countries they 
     
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     The visits were far reaching and informative. The 
     
     few students who were able to go round to these schools 
     
     Were able to clear many myths that existed in the minds 
     
     of our young ones. From the questions these students had I 
     
     to answer it was obvious that there was a lack of 
     
     understanding of some basic facts of life about other 
     
     countries. Questions like: do you sleep with tigers 
     
     'in your country?, do you eat dogs?, do you have 
     
     nfamilies?, are questions that would not have arisen 
     
     «if there was a basic understanding that all human 
     
     Iraces have some basic things in common. 
     
    

    
     However, the intelligence and eagerness 
     
     to learn as displayed by these youth are 
     
     ‘a pointer to the fact that somebody somewhere 
     
     has to do something in educating not only the 
     
     youths, but the elders too, in international 
     
     affairs. Some of the UPEI students were really 
     
     amazed to find some 10 year old kids asking 
     
     them some intriguing questions about the politics 
     
     and ecomomics of their countries. I believe that 
     
     in most of the areas visited the teachers and 
     
     Parents must have spent the rest of the 
     
     day either listening to the children relate 
     
     their experience with the foreign students. 
     
     This must mean, therefore, that the children 
     
     shared their knowledge with the elders. 
     
    

    
     This kind of activity is really what is 
     
     required quite regularly here on PEI, not 
     
     only for children, but for elders too. I 
     
     would like to see UNICEF and the Red—Cross 
     
     working together with the International 
     
     Students Association in order to promote 
     
     a regular program of tours and lectures to 
     
     students, clubs and communities on the 
     
     Island. This way children, parents, and 
     
     teachers will all get to have some basic 
     
     understanding of what life is like outside 
     
     Canada. 
     
    

    
     As the International Year of the Child 
     
     ‘ winds up, it is hoped that its spirit will 
     
    

    
     be blown up so that, as UNICEF puts it, these 
     
     Would be "more extended and sustained 
     
    
   
   
    
     services", not only for the children, but 
     
     for their elders too. 
     
    
   
   
    
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