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Children are our future
This is a post by Sue Avison, Communications Intern at UNICEF NZ.
UNICEF and Enviro-Challenge worked with five young Kiwis to get them to the UNICEF Children’s Climate Forum in Copenhagen, which ended last week. The Kiwi teens were among 160 other delegates from 44 countries.
The Forum took place in the lead-up up to the intergovernmental negotiations on climate change that started this week. Because the decision taken by the COP 15 will affect children and young people’s lives today and shape their world of tomorrow, UNICEF and the city of Copenhagen arranged the forum to give children and young people of the world a chance to be heard in the debate. UNICEF believes that children should help shape the future they will inherit.
As I follow the progress of these five remarkable young people and learn about the serious impacts of climate change, it is inspiring to see that our young people do care and are willing to step up and make a difference. Their parents must be enormously proud of them. As a mother myself, I know I would be!
I am encouraged by the calibre of our future leaders, because leaders are what they already are, and I hope, will continue to be. Already in their short lives they have achieved more than many would in a lifetime. You might be interested to see how they got on so take a look at their blogs below this one.
UNICEF works closely with children and communities to help them adapt to the consequences of climate change. This is through supporting preparedness for natural disasters through emergency relief, water and sanitation, education, and combating disease. Just as important is the inclusion of education about climate adaptation into relevant programmes and the running of Community Based Disaster Preparedness Projects.
We hear about so many tragic events taking place in the world; famine, disaster, war and poverty. Sometimes it is very easy to be overwhelmed by it all. Yet organisations like UNICEF are making a real difference. Lives are being changed; communities empowered and ‘hope’ for a better future is being restored.