World Children’s Day- Keep the Child Alive in You

20^th November celebrates the Universal Children’s Day every year on the global level. For the first time in 1954, World Children’s Day was inaugurated to mark this as a special day for children, promote togetherness and work on child welfare. In 1959, United Nations’ General assembly adopted the declaration of children’s rights and in 1989, UN adopted declaration of children’s rights. The rights such as the rights to be protected from violence and discrimination and the rights to life, health and education. UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, promotes and coordinates this special day, which also works towards improving children's welfare.

What significance does Universal Children’s Day Hold?

The importance of Universal Children’s day is to work on child welfare all over the world, celebrate and create awareness of the children’s rights and promote togetherness amongst all children. Also, it will help in promoting international togetherness.  

How Universal Children’s Day has helped?

In the last 30, transformations that can be seen in children’s lives …

·       More than 50% reduction in deaths of children under 5 since 1990

·       Almost halved the proportion of undernourished children since 1990

·       2.6 billion more people have cleaner drinking water today than in 1990

Further Actions are needed…

·       262 million children and youth are out of school.

·       650 million girls and women were married before their 18th birthday.

·       1 in 4 children will live in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040.

Children are the future stars!!!

     It is so rightly said that children are the building blocks of the future. This is a fact that the young minds will help in creating a better world and will become the tomorrow’s scientists, politicians, doctors and teachers. Kids are pure at heart and grasp whatever the world has managed to offer them. It is the children of today that will be charged to face the upcoming challenges and take the hardest decisions of life. Gift them the best today to get the best in return tomorrow.

    Help them to shine brighter and become the future stars.

    “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.”  

    This special day is dedicated to every child in the world to live this carefree phase of life and become strong enough and ready to experience the awaiting responsibilities.