Cape Verde The São Tiago free charters from children Charter 1: We, the children, want the Government to do the following: • Provide improved and clean environment • Put in jail all people who don’t respect the law • Improve the hospitals and offer better training for doctors • Improve learning conditions in our schools
We think the following should be in the new Millennium Goals: • End poverty and hunger • Fight against diseases • Improve maternal health • Quality of life and respect for the environment • Fight violence against children and exploitation of children So, this is what we wanted the Government leaders to do July 16th, 2014
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Put an end to hunger and poverty. Because there are a lot of countries in the world that still suffer from hunger and poverty.
Charter 2: We, the children of Cape Verde are asking the Government leaders to continue to fight for the first MDG, regarding ending hunger and poverty in the world, because if we manage to make them disappear, basic education will be of better quality, so will quality of life and maternal health; child mortality will be decreased; and joint work for the world development will continue, as will the respect for the environment and the fight against AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
disappear and not have descendants to talk to about the wonderful history of human life, and we want to fight deforestation. Finally, we are asking the Government to take seriously into consideration these requests. Despite the number of years and the efforts it will require, we want everything to be acted upon, especially regarding protection of children and the environment, so that in the coming years we have the possibility to continue to create new and different challenges.
We also ask Heads of State to face new challenges such as introducing a new goal regarding the need to prioritize and ensure the protection of innocent children as citizens.
With best wishes, for a confident and objective fight. We, the children of Cape Verde, are all together.
We want a clean and safe environment, where our planet is a priority (reduce global warming to zero, combat climate change, etc.), if we don’t want to quickly
July 17th, 2014
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