 Gaza schoolchildren
The project, launched yesterday, is organized by the United Kingdom-based non-governmental organization (NGO), Hoping Foundation, together with the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main body caring for some 4 million Palestinian refugees.
The "Hopes and Dreams" project encapsulates the youngsters" aspirations, bringing together on-line a community divided and scattered by decades of statelessness and exile.
Each student is recording a 30-second message. These will form the basis of a living network for the future, to be added to each year. The yearbook has been endorsed by Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, who is marking the Convention"s anniversary at an event at UN Headquarters in New York.
The segments show the youngsters outlining their hopes in various situations " in the classroom or library, sitting by the roadside, kicking a soccer ball.
"Twenty years on, what difference has it made in the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestine refugee children?" UNRWA asked in a news release on the anniversary of the Convention.
Source: UN News
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