Universal Children’s Day

20 NOVEMBER is the United Nation’s Universal Children's Day. It is celebrated worldwide annually to mark the day on which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989.
Today we think of all the children who needs protection, like Guna, from India. She lost her father and brothers in the black wave of a tsunami and had to grow up in a children’s home run by Peace Trust and WCP Laureates Paul and Mercy Baskar.

Guna says: ”I am happy to be around other children who understand me, and want to move forward, but it has not been easy. Getting better takes time and a brave heart,” says Guna. She wants to fight for other children’s rights in the future, especially the right to an education. ”And I want to become a doctor”, she says.

We will continue to promote children’s rights every day of the year, through the World’s Children’s Prize Program, not least through the support of our partners, including Svenska PostkodLotteriet, Global Wings and The Body Shop, Survé Family Foundation and ECPAT Sweden.

Learn more about Peace Trust and work here:
http://worldschildrensprize.org/paul-mercy-baskar