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Meena’s blog
- CRC Week
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October 5, 2009.
Today my teacher told us about children’s rights because this week, it’s the Child Rights Week. She showed us a book with nice images and she explained that all children should be able to go to the doctor when they are sick. This is the right to health. All children should also be able to go to school. This is the right to education. All children should be protected from violence, this is the right to protection.
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- There is a document called the “Convention on the Rights of the Child’ that says all the rights that children should enjoy. It is the first time I hear about this.
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- Then she asked us what we think about the situation of children in our country and what we would like to change. I said that no more children should be hungry. I know that in some families, children only eat once in a day. They are very thin and weak because they get so little food. I hope, one day, all children will have enough to eat.
- An injection for Rani
3 January 2009
The health worker arrived in our village early this morning. She put up a cloth banner next to our school to remind everyone to bring all babies and small children to get immunized. The banner is bright yellow and has a picture of a baby on it. There are lots of black arrows around the baby. The arrows remind me of injections.
Mother brought my little sister Rani to the centre to get vaccinated. When the nurse put the needle in her arm, Rani didn’t even cry! Maybe she knows the vaccination will stop her from getting measles and other diseases.
It is good that I have already had all my vaccines. They really sting at first, but I know they stop me from getting sick.
Today is National Immunization Day. 3 January 2009.
- Happy New Year!
14 April 2009
Today is April 14: Bangla New Year.
April 14 is my favourite day of the year in Bangladesh. Everyone wears new clothes in red and white colours. We say “Shuvo Nubo Borsho” to all our neighbours and friends. It means: “Happy New Year!”
Bangla New Year is a lucky day to open a new business. Father and Mother decided that today was a good day to start selling milk from Lali, our cow. Mother bought Lali and her calf with a loan that the bank only gives to women.
I’m glad there will be extra money in the house from selling the milk.
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