Children’s assembly planned for October

“Keeping the Promise” is what the United Nations International Children’s Fund wants young people to chant at its upcoming children’s forum. UNICEF and its Children’s Advisory Committee is ready to push issues one step further in light of the progress made at the 1998 Children’s elections and 1999’s Forum on Child Abuse. The event, targeting the views of fifteen to eighteen year olds, will be held on October third at the National Assembly building in Belmopan. Though politicians may not be legislating that day, they are advised to listen in, as the discussion will highlight what the leaders of the country have or have not been doing to keep the promises made to Belizean children, based on the conventions of the rights of the Child and the World Summit for Children’s goals. It is expected that students from all high schools in the country will be represented either as panelists or observers. So as not to exclude those who can’t make it, the occasion will be transmitted via radio into the nation’s classrooms, so all students and teachers can tune in, and also call in to express their views.