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Ambition:occupant of the first office
labelled ‘child friendly’at the European Parliament
Rapporteur of the Ward Reporton Intercultural Dialogue
“Give children a voicein decision making”
Member of EuropeanParliamentBrussels / Strasbourg
Grade 8 of the Witte Olifant Schoolin Amsterdam
Julie Ward meetsthe class of Marjo
van Wittmarschen
On video...
... and hopefully soonin real life, on the
Children’s Rights Day, November 2016!
I want to knowall about children’s
needs...
... and to givechildren a voice
in decisionMaking!
We startedthe Children’sInternationalPress Centre!
Our local Child Press CentreOffice is located at the Witte
Olifant School... Right next-doorto the Offices of the Dutch EUPresidency, January-June 2016
Children’s rightsand well-being
are very importantTo me!
So I ask youThis question:
What can MEPsdo to make adifference in
your life?
We are pleased to hearthat you are open to
listening to us!
We workedtogether
intensely!
And we read differentreports and newspapers
and interviewed adultsaround us.
We all agree thatno child should be left out
in society in any way!
We dividedthe class intofive groups.
Seven of us checked out
our neighbourhood
Six of us looked
for local professionalcaregivers around us.
Four of us interviewedour parents ;-)
Six of us investigatednational politics
And another six of us examined international
politicians.
And another five of us examined international
politicians.
The international groupattended the press release of a survey
of children’s health behaviorsupported by the WHO
We worked around 5 themes which we
gave priority
1. Maltreatment of childrenand the elderly
2. RefugeesWe would like to meet
one refugee each
3. Who thinks aboutthe soldiers...?
4. Protect us from the guyon the scooter who tries
to sell us drugs
5. Use the latest knowledgeabout learning to update
our education
Again:We do not want to let any child around us
down
So we each‘tried’ tocontact with one
adult for apersonal dialogue
We will present these adultson the front page of a glossy
about them
All those glossieswil be collected in aspecial catalogue
We will now presentall our topics to you.
You can click on everychild to see who he
or she found
Our Mayor described his personal crusade against child
abuse in a video, so we asked for an appointment and we got one!
He’s really great, does a lot and told us about the taskforce against
child abuse which extends to all 342 Dutch mayors
We told him about our fantastic teacher who
builds trust in our class for every kid.
We think this is super important so that children
under pressure will feel that they can trust her and
all of us in class
The mayor invited us to presentour work to his colleagues from the taskforce. And our teacher
got a personal letter full of compliments!
So our answer to your huge question is:
Support and trust our hard working teachers like our
mayor tries to do!
Teachers can help us to develop trust.
Trust each other and in the adults around us.
The Mayor’s taskforce will highlightInternational Children’s Day
a week in advance (14-20 november)
Do join us!We hope to meet you then!
We’d like to help promotethe Ward Report, because it will
support each of us in befriendingrefugee children
We hope you have enough colleagues in
the European Parliament who support you enough!
Let’s see what we can do together. We stand strong!
How can we support you? Maybe one day we’ll all meet you...