18th Session of the United Nations Commission
on Human Settlements
Nairobi, Kenya February 2001
Tillbaks | Back
Globetree was invited by the United Nations Habitat to lead the Opening Ceremony of the 18th Session of the Commission on Human Settlements. 200 children and youth from all walks of life participated in the Opening Ceremony and created a Future Vessel at the entrance of the United Nations, Nairobi. Our Uniting Water was handed over the President of Kenya and the children’s program inspired the United Nations of Nairobi (UNON) to create the first Children’s Meeting Place of the world. The program was also the beginning of an extensive exchange between cities and municipalities in the Lake Victoria Region and the Sweden which is since ongoing. Another result of the event is partnership and twinning between cities in the two regions.
Children living and working on the streets, blind and deaf children, children from slum areas of Nairobi, children with HIV/aids, middle class children and children from private schools prepared the Future Vessel and the theme was The City Soul. All expressions of art were combined in the Opening Ceremony and the Future Vessel and the children’s messages shared their concern about pollution, reality of living in the slums, problems to get clean water, how can we survive when our parents die in Aids. The children’s messages reached the heart of the invited ministers of the world and all others in the audience.
Tillbaks | Back
