LEARN FOR CHANGE Child Rights Heroes & changemakers

Be inspired by three brave Child Rights Heroes, nominated for the World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child.

The three Child Rights Heroes become role models as the students learn about their childhoods, how they created their organizations and about the children they fight for. Later, they will vote for their favourite Child Rights Hero in the Global Vote.

Action brings hope

Through the life stories of the Child Rights Heroes, learners will gain knowledge about child rights issues and possible solutions to problems and violations of children’s rights. The stories describe the Child Rights Heroes’ organizations: how they support children directly but also how they bring about long-term change in their communities and countries. Learning about the Child Rights Heroes’ ideas for change can spark ideas for how your students can make a difference in their own lives, villages and towns.

Explore the challenges

The Child Rights Heroes deal with many issues, including children who:

• are orphans or live in care;

• belong to Indigenous groups that face discrimination and abuse;

• are denied proper health care;

• can’t go to school or receive low quality education;

• are harmed by extreme weather and natural disasters, made worse by climate change;

• are forcibly separated from their families;

• are mistreated because they are differently abled.

Learning activities

Find more information and activities on p. 13–17. Use them to help the students understand the reasons for and effects of problems, and possible solutions.

Resources

✲ Stories about the candidates and the children they fight for on the website and on p. 28–89 in The Globe.

✲ Video about the candidates at wcp.global/video