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Schoolpage Challenge 2 - Comenius College Hilversum

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The right to education and protection against child labour.

 

Movie about child labour made by Caro, Lucy and Iris:
 


 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDzwaXItEwE&feature=youtu.be

 


Topic 1 A:

 

Michaël Polling, Maurice Schopping:

Question 5 + 6

 

5. Every child has the right to go to school. What do you think? Do all the children go to school in your country? What about your own city or town? If some children in your city/town/country don’t go to school, what prevents them from doing so? How can these challenges be changed?

 

We think that every child has the right to go to school. In our country everybody has to go to school. Our country has a law that’s called compulsary education. We have to go to school for at least 5 days per week and a minimum time of 27 hour in those 5 days (approximately) also we have to make homework and study at home. If you don’t go to school without a good reasen, it’s called playing truant. If you do that you still have to have to catch up with the hours you didn’t attend at school, but double the time. So when you play truant one hour, you have to stay two hours extra the next day. If you play truant a lot, you will have an attendance officer on your doorstep. Your parents might get a fine because you have played truant a couple of days. But in our country not everybody goes to school, not because the just can’t come because they don’t have money, but because they just don’t want. When someone is being bullied he might play truant or when somebody is having a conflict with somebody else, he might stay home the next day.

 

6. What would the world be like if kids could choose for themselves the right to school or the right to go work?

 

We think that if children could choose for themselves whether they work or go to school that children from western countries would like to work more. In the west they see school a bit as compulsory. We don’t think western children would stop with school but they will attend school less and start working because in the west they think school in this way is too much for them and children just want to earn money for a pair of cool shoes or something like that. But in the poor and eastern countries we think that all the children want to go to school because in a lot of countries children already started working very young to earn money for their family. Also in those countries the parents don’t have money for school but the children want it very bad. So if they had to choose for themselves I think they would definitely choose for school.

 

 


Topic 1 B: Gaetano, Kim, Dewi, Koen, Britt

 


 

 


Topic 2 A:

 

The winner of the Children’s rights award 2014 was Neha Gupta. She is the founder of Empower Orphans, which she started when she was nine years old. Empower Orphans is a non-profit organization which addresses the problems associated  with orphans, abandoned children and children born in families living in poverty. The organization’s goal is to help create self-sufficiency by supplying children with the tools to gain a basic education, and technical skills to enable a sustainable life. In addition to education Empower Orphans provides food, clothing, health-care and medical supplies to establish an effective learning environment.

Empower Orphans also aims to motivate individuals like us to change our empathy into action, by providing orphaned children the opportunity to help themselves and be treated with the equality they deserve.

 

The children’s right that speaks to us the most is:

The right to survival and development” which continues in:
underscores the vital importance of ensuring access to basic services and to equality of opportunity for children to achieve their full development. For example, a child with a disability should have effective access to education and health care to achieve their full potential.

This right speaks to us the most because we think all children should be able to develop themselves, and a lot of children, even more children with a disability, are rejected by their families and environment, and do not really get the chance to develop themselves.

 

 

Laura, Lois, Eva P., Rahsaan en Jolien 


Topic 2 B:

 


 

 

Comments (2)

Eliane Metni said

at 2:16 pm on Apr 26, 2015

I echo Natasha's world and want to express my appreciation of your movie and its message.

Natasha Cherednichenko said

at 8:26 am on Apr 16, 2015

Dear students,
thank you for the Child's Labour movie. It touchs the problem from inside and has very deep social meaning.

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