Take a manifesto in defense of children
- “Children and adolescents are active subjects and their needs, feelings, opinions and points of view must be taken into account, especially if the types of loss and vulnerability generated by the state of alarm are to be avoided”, notes the manifesto launched by the network of popular educators. They have also called for an appointment for next Sunday, in which a applause and a party has been prepared to pay tribute to the little ones. Over 400 people at the individual level and 30 actors at the individual level have supported the initiative.
On 26 April, at 12:00 a.m., a new day has been called to reclaim and value childhood. The manifesto contains eight main ideas:
Child visibility. “It is unacceptable that since we closed schools and locked children in their homes, no institutional body makes the slightest reference,” they have denounced.
Build on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child for the Protection of Children, the Protection of Their Rights, Their Social Participation, the Importance of Play in the Center…
To claim that childhood and adolescence are not only the future, but also the present.
To emphasize that, like all human beings, children also have the necessary nature, “to strengthen the defenses, to observe the world, to dirty their hands, to jump in the wells, to hide in the depths of the old trees…”.
Listen to the word of the children and give the floor to the children, ensuring participation.
Let children take the streets of towns and cities. “Children have been confined to parks before being confined to houses. We need to change our vision of cities, transform cities, prioritize our health, rather than prioritize economy and profitability.”
To put an inclusive focus on the center to address many situations that children experience.
It should also be noted that after-school children (family, friends, free games and free time, network of citizen relations and community participation) play a fundamental role in our development from an early age, “because we are surprised that every time we talk about children we have incorporated schools into this equation”.
In this link you can read the full manifesto. And in this other one, you can join the manifesto.
How do you feel?
As the manifesto itself says, the network of educators and educators Oinherri has wanted to hear the words of children and adolescents and have collected those of some in a beautiful video. There, some have confessed that they are tired, that they miss their grandmother and grandfather, that they also want to play with their friends in the street… and that they want to end the coronavirus once and for all.
First of all, a municipal activity in Euskera, a dozen children from two to three years playing in the park, around the parents, has approached me one of the children by my side, zast!, has cut my breath the bracelet that takes in the corner: the Ertzaintza. Blue Lives Matter... [+]