millennium children

Millennium Children – “They Care About Us” (4) The Future is now

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Millennium Children – This is not a nightmare, but part of our 21st-century. I used to be a journalist at an international help organization. Once I asked a friend photograph which was the most frightening situation he had to face in his lifetime? His answer was: “to stand in front of a child, who has a gun in his hand, a child soldier”. These are only some examples of what many children have to face on a daily basis. These children are all dreaming of a good education. They have the power to learn something bigger than themselves, for they know about cell phones, Internet, robots and machines. They want a work that matters, that makes a difference.

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Millennium Children -“They Care About Us” (3) Voiceless

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Millennium Children – You are now in another country. You are eleven-years old and live in a village ten kilometres away from school. There is no bus, but you have the chance to have an old bicycle. Today you ride your bike very fast. Why are you so fast? It was not the case six months ago… before some bad guys stopped you, touched you, and finally raped you… you had no chance to flee. They were too many, and you are too small. And as they left you behind you were so ashamed, and so scared to meet these bad guys again that you told nobody what happened to little you.

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Millennium Children – “They Care About Us” – Part 2 – Anti-Personnel Mines

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Imagine now being eight years old in a small village in Egypt or Afghanistan. You would love to play football with your friends, but your baba said it is forbidden. One day, a friend didn’t listen to his baba and went out to play. Now he has no legs. Another of your friends has only one arm. Your Mama said it is the result of these things called anti-personnel mines. You cannot see them, they say, because they are below the ground. You think you have seen one shining in the sun, and wanted to touch it to know what it is, but your baba came and stopped you from doing it…

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Millennium Children – “They Care About Us” (1) One Room Shelter

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Millennium Children are today in the year of 2018 over 18 years old. Most of Millennium Children were not born in the so called Western world. They were born in Asia or Africa. On the African continent for example, the median age of the whole population today is 19 years old. Thus let us imagine how it can be: To walk in the shoes of one of those Millennium Children, who had not any chance to grow up in a great surrounds like me in Paris and see how it feels like.
Imagine you are one Millennium Children. You are four years old. You live in the suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Kinshasa or Mogadishu at your parents house. Your house is a one-room shelter. You share it with your parents and many of your brothers and sisters. You all sleep. You all wake up. You all eat in this same tiny one room. When it is dark: You all go to sleep. Because there is no light any more. And it is not easy to find clear water to drink. You like to sit and play in front of the house. You play with some strange objects. You don’t see the garbage and dirt around you. Because this is your world! But most of the time, you cannot sit and play. Because you have to help your family earn for a living. Claude Piel speaks about Millennium Children at the gala 2018 of the Diplomatic Council (UN org).

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