“The first time I went into battle I was afraid. But after two or three days they forced us to start using cocaine, and then I lost my fear. When I was taking drugs, I never felt bad on the front. Human blood was the first thing I would have every morning. It was my coffee in the morning… every morning.”
-Ibrahim, 16, Lord’s Resistance Army
Those are the true words of a child soldier fighting in the Lord’s Resistance Army in Sierra Leone and Uganda in Africa. These children are just a small group of children exploited to do dangerous or overly laborious work all around the world, especially in third-world countries such as Africa or India. The other biggest areas classified under ‘Children’ that the United Nations Association (UN) are trying to improve are lack of healthcare, lack of welfare, child labour, child trafficking, poverty and of course the above-mentioned child soldiers.
Modern children living here in Singapore do not understand nor experience the pain and torment children in third- world countries feel, and therefore, the UNAS (United Nations Association of Singapore has organised a number of events and activities for upper-primary children here, mainly using SCGS (Singapore Chinese Girl’s School) as a base. The most recent activity is the SCGS Model United Nations Conference, but before that was the “Open little Eyes” symposium organised within SCGS. Global International Indian School (GIIS), SCGS, Nanyang Primary School (NYPS), CHIJ Kellock were among the schools that attended the symposium.
The symposium comprised of four sessions on every Saturday from February 7th to February 28th. Its aim was to empower the pupils by creating significant learning experiences through problem solving and empathy (developing communication skills) to the sufferings, hardships and differences among the children around the world. It also enabled the students to be more aware of and care about the world to a greater degree than they did before the workshop, or in a different way (enhancing the right values in life and preparing the pupils to impact the world). Students learn campaigning skills (speech, art, poetry, short stories and music), and between their school groups they presented their prepared presentations to the other schools.
The event will also provide the participating primary schools with synergistic benefits to learn from one another's National Education programme and benchmark best practices. Mr Alexander Charles Louis, Secretary General, Chairperson Humanitarian Affairs, UNAS, was also present as Guest-of honour.
Review done by Teo Weilong 6K
-Ibrahim, 16, Lord’s Resistance Army
Those are the true words of a child soldier fighting in the Lord’s Resistance Army in Sierra Leone and Uganda in Africa. These children are just a small group of children exploited to do dangerous or overly laborious work all around the world, especially in third-world countries such as Africa or India. The other biggest areas classified under ‘Children’ that the United Nations Association (UN) are trying to improve are lack of healthcare, lack of welfare, child labour, child trafficking, poverty and of course the above-mentioned child soldiers.
Modern children living here in Singapore do not understand nor experience the pain and torment children in third- world countries feel, and therefore, the UNAS (United Nations Association of Singapore has organised a number of events and activities for upper-primary children here, mainly using SCGS (Singapore Chinese Girl’s School) as a base. The most recent activity is the SCGS Model United Nations Conference, but before that was the “Open little Eyes” symposium organised within SCGS. Global International Indian School (GIIS), SCGS, Nanyang Primary School (NYPS), CHIJ Kellock were among the schools that attended the symposium.
The symposium comprised of four sessions on every Saturday from February 7th to February 28th. Its aim was to empower the pupils by creating significant learning experiences through problem solving and empathy (developing communication skills) to the sufferings, hardships and differences among the children around the world. It also enabled the students to be more aware of and care about the world to a greater degree than they did before the workshop, or in a different way (enhancing the right values in life and preparing the pupils to impact the world). Students learn campaigning skills (speech, art, poetry, short stories and music), and between their school groups they presented their prepared presentations to the other schools.
The event will also provide the participating primary schools with synergistic benefits to learn from one another's National Education programme and benchmark best practices. Mr Alexander Charles Louis, Secretary General, Chairperson Humanitarian Affairs, UNAS, was also present as Guest-of honour.
Review done by Teo Weilong 6K
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