Ambition:occupant of the first office

labelled ‘child friendly’at the European Parliament

Rapporteur of the Ward Reporton Intercultural Dialogue

“Give children a voicein decision making”

Member of EuropeanParliamentBrussels / Strasbourg

Grade 8 of the Witte Olifant Schoolin Amsterdam

Julie Ward meetsthe class of Marjo

van Wittmarschen

On video...

... and hopefully soonin real life, on the

Children’s Rights Day, November 2016!

I want to knowall about children’s

needs...

... and to givechildren a voice

in decisionMaking!

We startedthe Children’sInternationalPress Centre!

Our local Child Press CentreOffice is located at the Witte

Olifant School... Right next-doorto the Offices of the Dutch EUPresidency, January-June 2016

Children’s rightsand well-being

are very importantTo me!

So I ask youThis question:

What can MEPsdo to make adifference in

your life?

We are pleased to hearthat you are open to

listening to us!

We workedtogether

intensely!

And we read differentreports and newspapers

and interviewed adultsaround us.

We all agree thatno child should be left out

in society in any way!

We dividedthe class intofive groups.

Seven of us checked out

our neighbourhood

Six of us looked

for local professionalcaregivers around us.

Four of us interviewedour parents ;-)

Six of us investigatednational politics

And another six of us examined international

politicians.

And another five of us examined international

politicians.

The international groupattended the press release of a survey

of children’s health behaviorsupported by the WHO

We worked around 5 themes which we

gave priority

1. Maltreatment of childrenand the elderly

2. RefugeesWe would like to meet

one refugee each

3. Who thinks aboutthe soldiers...?

4. Protect us from the guyon the scooter who tries

to sell us drugs

5. Use the latest knowledgeabout learning to update

our education

Again:We do not want to let any child around us

down

So we each‘tried’ tocontact with one

adult for apersonal dialogue

We will present these adultson the front page of a glossy

about them

All those glossieswil be collected in aspecial catalogue

We will now presentall our topics to you.

You can click on everychild to see who he

or she found

Our Mayor described his personal crusade against child

abuse in a video, so we asked for an appointment and we got one!

He’s really great, does a lot and told us about the taskforce against

child abuse which extends to all 342 Dutch mayors

We told him about our fantastic teacher who

builds trust in our class for every kid.

We think this is super important so that children

under pressure will feel that they can trust her and

all of us in class

The mayor invited us to presentour work to his colleagues from the taskforce. And our teacher

got a personal letter full of compliments!

So our answer to your huge question is:

Support and trust our hard working teachers like our

mayor tries to do!

Teachers can help us to develop trust.

Trust each other and in the adults around us.

The Mayor’s taskforce will highlightInternational Children’s Day

a week in advance (14-20 november)

Do join us!We hope to meet you then!

We’d like to help promotethe Ward Report, because it will

support each of us in befriendingrefugee children

We hope you have enough colleagues in

the European Parliament who support you enough!

Let’s see what we can do together. We stand strong!

How can we support you? Maybe one day we’ll all meet you...

Thanks for your inspiring question!