Child Participation

The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Save the Children bring children and decision-makers together in “My Voice Matters Too” national event

The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Save the Children have organised “My Voice Matters Too” seminar in Beirut on 31 October 2017.

A group of youth who completed a research on challenges facing young people in Lebanon have said their job is far from done.

Taking to the consultation roundtable of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, the youngsters called for an action to be taken to deliver on a set of recommendations that they made.

There are 14 kilometres separating the two villages. One, Majdal Anjar, sits right next to the Syrian border. The other, Qab Elias, lies at the foot of sloping mountains on the edge of the western plateau of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.

Though geographically split, social challenges and predicaments unite the two towns.

They have voices, but are they being heard?

This is the question that represents the essence of Save the Children’s Child Rights Governance programme, to translate children’s words into demands, their rights into duties and whims into realities.

From one side of the world to the other, letters travelled. The senders have never met the receivers, but they certainly have a lot to speak about.