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Worksheet: Text from For Every Child, by Caroline Castle
Whoever we are, wherever we live, these rights belong to all children
under the sun and the moon and the stars, whether we live in cities
or towns or villages, or in mountains or valleys or deserts or forests
or jungles. Anywhere and everywhere in the big, wide world, these
are the rights of every child.
Understand that all children are precious. Pick us up if we fall
down and if we are lost lend us your hand. Give us the things we
need to make us happy and strong, and always do your best for us
whenever we are in your care.
All children should be allowed to live and to grow … and grow
… and grow … until we are grown up and can decide things
for ourselves.
Max, Zahra, Betty, Juan, Suyin, Reza, Paolo, Yair, Yoko, Mohammed
… Every one of us shall have a name and a land to call our
own.
Keep our families together, and if we have no family, look after
us and love us just the same.
Allow us to tell you what we are thinking or feeling. Whether our
voices are big or small, whether we whisper or shout it, or paint,
draw, mime or sign it - listen to us and hear what we say.
No one on Earth has the right to hurt us, not even our mums and
dads. Protect us always from anyone who would be cruel.
If we are disabled, either in body or in mind, treasure us especially
and give us the care we need to live happily in the world.
Watch over us. Wrap us up against the cold and rain, and give us
shade from the hot sun. Make sure we have enough to eat and drink
and if we are sick, nurse and comfort us.
Teach us all to read and write and teach us well so we grow up
to be the best we can at whatever we wish to do. Take care of our
Earth - the flowers, the trees, the rivers, the seas - and teach
us how to care for it in our turn.
All children will have time to play and time to rest when we are
tired.
In times of war do not make us part of any battle, but shelter
us and protect us from all harm.
Allow us to say our own prayers in our own words, whether in churches
or temples, synagogues or mosques, chapels or shrines or any other
place a prayer may be said to our own God. And let us sing and dance
and dress in the ways of our own people.
Do your best to let everyone know that, whoever we are, wherever
we live, these are the rights of every child.
Lesson plan: Expanded paragraphs
From the Children's rights online resource
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