Questions from the children to their mayors
by Charlotte Aminoff

Tillbaks | Back

1. What social facilities have you put in place to ensure that children and youth have a chance to use their leisure time well?
A place for leisure, amusement park for the children. Benches for leaders and sometimes people from the government are there to answer questions. We need more “toys”.

2. What are you doing to prevent children become street children?
We try to take them of the street by providing education for the children and thereby keep them of the street. It’s essential that the parents understand that education is important.
It was said two years ago that all education is free so now even the poor can get an education.
Poverty and welfare for children and youths. Children need homes, take them to a orphanage and give them job, education and trying to make them undependable. We get wives for them.

3. What are you doing about equal distribution of resources especially on education?
It’s right that all have the same opportunities in life regardless of who you are. Girls have received an extra resource to prevent them from staying home and clean. This has also been given to children with special needs. No child is left behind.

4. What are you doing to ensure that every child is enjoying the benefits of children’s rights?
In year 2000 there was a law that you hade to ensure children’s rights. It’s supplemented in all questions.
Inform about their rights and responsibilities. Parents abuse because they do not know. Mothers are targets for the information and so are schools. Teachers must know the rights of the children.
Create youth councils, student councils etc. Let it influence every school.
Laws of children’s rights. We have an officer who makes it happen.

5. What can you do to make a better life for the people with disabilities?
Disabled people in the government, so that they can talk about the needs. It needs more than just removing stairs.
Presentation in parliament. Free education.

6. What can you do to ensure that all children can afford to go to school?
Schools are without fees now. Because of this the government force the parents to send their children to school. All schools including higher levels are free, first and second level in school.
The school is compulsory and it’s criminal if they do not go to school. The children who are clever can continue for free and as for the University you will be able to borrow money.

7. What are you doing about the unemployment of the young people?
Unemployment is hard. We are trying to invite them to start their own private companies to reduce unemployment. But still education is important. Also they can work after school.
Those who are serious, no problems. You just have to tell them to do something about their unemployment, otherwise they are just lazy.
Start training centres to learn skills.
Five hundred thousand new jobs and mature people will receive jobs.

8. What are you doing to prevent AIDS/HIV?
We have to change our behaviour. Social life keeps you away from making romance. Plain sex. Do not go to the ghettos.
If you do not educate women this problem will not have a solution. Some families might have AIDS; we give them a home and help them out.
A B C, Awareness
Do not have sex before your married and avoid adultery

9. How far have you gone to involve children and youth in decision-making?
Children take part in all the decisions that take place in every question. We are trying to improve.
Local councils and children meetings, to make it possible for the youth to take part.
Children can say what the want at our meetings.

10. What can you do to reduce the gap between the poor and the rich?
We adopt a “Robin Hood” economy; tax the rich more and the pore less.
Pay taxes so we can reduce the gap
Education, avoid group influence.
A lot has been done. “Micro finance”, if you put money in the bank and ask somebody to certify what you want to do and then you can borrow money. Start your own business.
The leaders are very engaged in this question but the needs are very big so it will take time.