Say Yes, Summer 2007: In This Issue

Measuring progress

During her recent visit to Turkey, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman took part in a series of high level meetings and talked to a number of women and children. She found that Turkey has been making steady progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but also highlighted some of the remaining challenges, including disparities of geography and gender.

Parents with know–how

While in Istanbul, Executive Director Ann M. Veneman visited an education centre in the Bakırköy district. Here she learned what parents have been learning on My Family training courses — and saw the difference it has been making to their lives and the lives of their children.

Adding classrooms

One of the biggest obstacles which the Girls’ Education campaign Haydi Kızlar Okula! has had to overcome is a shortage of schools and classrooms. Among the initiatives which have been taken to solve the problem is the addition of prefabricated classrooms to existing schools. Meet the girls who are most affected, listen to what the experts have to say, and read the inside story of the star–studded UNICEF–NTV telethon which raised funds for over a hundred more classrooms on April 23.

The next step

UNICEF’s work on child poverty in Turkey bore fruit on May 23 when Minister of Labour and Social Security Murat Başesgioğlu formally announced at a press conference in Ankara that Turkey is to develop a strategy to reduce and eventually eliminate the phenomenon. Poor children become poor parents of poor families, but intervention on behalf of children has the potential to break down this continuous cycle of poverty.

A clean slate please

Members of the provincial child rights committees, sponsored by ice–cream manufacturer Algida, have called for an end to global warming. The children went public with their 40–article declaration at a press conference on Istanbul’s Fener Pier on June 4 — the eve of World Environment Day. So what are they recommending?

Child labour falls

The first statistics on child labour for seven years point to a continuing decline, reflecting the fall in agricultural employment and longer years of schooling. But in urban areas, child labour is declining less rapidly.

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