Access to Humanitarian Assistance and Development Initiative (AHDI) is proud to associate itself with the United Nations (UN) in celebrating the Universal Children’s Day, established in 1954.
The annual universal children’s day is a day set aside to create awareness on the rights of children and promote togetherness among them. The UN’s convention on the ‘rights of the child’ shows that children have civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights. These rights should be promoted and observed by member countries.
The date 20 November marks the day on which the UN’s General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989.
In Nigeria today, many children are faced with numerous challenges such as violence, abuse, child labour, neglect, exploitation, poor living conditions, inadequate access to quality education among others and most of these children are unaware of their rights. Children have also been affected and displaced as aftermaths of conflicts and civil unrest in many parts of Nigeria especially in the North Eastern and North Central parts of Nigeria.
According to a survey conducted by the National Population Commission, UNICEF and the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 6 out of 10 Nigerian children experienced at least one form of violence before they reach 18.
AHDI believes that the children of today are the leaders of tomorrow and the hope of a better nation. Children are the bedrock of any nation, educate a child today and be sure to have a prosperous and united nation tomorrow.
Each of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in many ways affect a child’s life and aims to promote their rights and causes, hence it is of utmost importance that every community, institution and nation subscribe and invest resources that is needed to achieve these global strategic goals.
AHID’s active child-focused programmes includes the School Infrastructure Improvement Programme (SIIP), Stay In School Initiative (SISI) and Media Initiative 4 Children (MI4C)
What are you also doing for the child today? We have the collective responsibility of making the life of a child better.
We can join hands NOW and provide succour and life of dignity to every child in our community and nation.
AHDI is already taking the bold step, you can collaborate with us to scale up any of our current programmes.