Ethiopia: Child Delegates Call for Children to Help Efforts On Right for Children
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The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
10 October 2008
Posted to the web 10 October 2008
Our Staff Writer
Addis Ababa
Child Delegates who attended the 4th Regional Inter-Agency Task Team (RIATT) held in Tanzania 29 September to 2nd October, 2008, on Wednesday called on fellow children to take part in the continued efforts to universal access for children.
With the theme "Getting it Right for Children", the regional task team brought together delegates from 19 countries from East and Southern Africa to come up with recommendations to reaffirm commitments to the universal access.
Ethiopia was one of 9 countries in the region to include children in their official country delegation.
"I met so many interesting children who are doing so much to help children in their countries," said Hana Girma, a 16-year-old 12th grade student from Dire Dawa. "Being selected by my peers to represent Ethiopia and to help come up with recommendations to help children affected by HIV and AIDS was a great honor for me," added Getahun Wuletaw, a 15-year-old from Hawassa.
"We must now work with adults - policymakers, NGOs and the community members - to ensure that these commitments - and previous promises to children are kept," continued Getahun.
For the first time since the United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) committed to work towards universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support for children by 2010 - children were included in the review process.
Hana and Getahun were among 28 children from all over Ethiopia who participated in the National Children's Consultation Workshop on September 15 and 16 in Debra Zeit.
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Organized by Save the Children in partnership with TAMASHA - a pan-African organization responsible for organizing children's participation in Tanzania and eight other African countries - and with support from UNICEF, USAID, the Ministry of Women's Affairs and President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) the child participants came up with recommendations on behalf of their peers, coordinated six regional meetings with more children, and then selected two delegates to represent Ethiopian children.
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