The World’s Children’s Prize Program empowers children to become changemakers, advocating for the rights of the child, with a special focus on girls’ equal rights. You can easily adapt its process and activities to your local circumstances and needs.
In brief, you will be:
- Learning and talking about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Exploring children's rights, especially girls' equal rights, where you live.
- Organizing changemaker activities.
So far, nearly 50 million children worldwide have participated in the WCP Program. Here, Child Rights Ambassadors help organize the program in their school in rural Zimbabwe.
More information available
Once you have completed this online course, you will be guided to more information on the WCP website that helps you to organize the WCP Program. This will include:
- Stories about Child Rights Heroes and the children they fight for.
- Stories about Child Rights Ambassadors.
- Child Rights Facts on issues and countries.
- How to organize a democratic vote.
- Workshop and lesson plans
- For download: The Globe and pedagogical guides.
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The WCP Program, step by step
Below, find more details about what happens in the WCP Program.
Start by learning all about the Rights of the Child. How does it work where you live, in your country and even the world. Learn especially about girls’ equal rights. Are children's rights in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child respected in your family, your village or town, school and country?
Through real stories, children get to know Child Rights Heroes and the children they fight for. They also learn and are inspired by stories about Child Rights Ambassadors who are changemakers in their families and villages or towns.
You and your friends are now ready to discuss the changes you want to see in the respect for children's rights, particularly the equal rights of girls, within your family and village or town. How will you inform your families, friends, and neighbours? How do you plan to reach out to local leaders and others in your community? Perhaps this involves creating placards and banners with your messages for rights and change. In this way, you also prepare for your own Changemaker Day.
You can pick any date for your school’s annual Changemaker Day. On this day children make their voices heard about the rights of the child and the changes they want to see. You will learn more about how to organize Changemaker day and about the different activities in the next part of this step.
Similar to Child Rights Ambassadors, all children who take part in the WCP Program can act as changemakers in their daily lives, at school and at home. By sharing their newfound knowledge and ideas with parents and siblings, grandparents and neighbours, they strengthen the respect for children’s rights, including girls’ equal rights. You will learn more about Changemaker Mission later in this course
