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Seamus, 16 (Northern Ireland) On behalf of other children, I call for solidarity for immediate end of war in our country, so it provides the grounds for next generations’ education. We wish other countries could helping us restore peace, in our country.
What does solidarity mean to you? Your answer to this question will be a part of our new exhibition, under the headline "Towards a Culture of Solidarity" with answers from all over the world. The exhibition will be seen in several of ENYA's upcoming events, including the mass protest during the upcoming World Bank/IMF meeting here in Prague in September. We will also be posting as many of your comments as possible on our site. We invite you to send us your contribution, along with a picture if possible. Contributions for the exhibition mural could be around 10-12 lines, and we would also be interestd in receiving either contributions (peoms, pictures, stories, photos), in the hope that this will deepen our ecumenical discussions -- on what it really means to be in solidarity with each other.

You can send your contribution to "ENYA - Culture of Solidarity" at enya_solidarity@email.com . You can also post contributions to ENYA , U Nas 9, CZ - 147 00 Prague 4, Czech Republic.


Matai Kirumbi, 24, (Tanzania)
It is a bond between individuals with the same goals or certain perspectives, which benefit them. It may be born of an agreement or of mob psychology.

ENYA endeavors through all our programmes to manifest solidarity and respect across divisions of race, religion, nationality, sex and age. We read of the great commitment within the ecumenical movement to solidarity actions some tweny years ago, but within our generation in our current times people are not intersted in being in solidarity with others -- there is not profit -- in fact quite the opposite. How can we rebuild or work towards an all embracing -- Culture of Solidarity in the context of globalisation and the global markets that so many are suffereing under. How can we influence the dominant life-destroying dominant values that shape our worls at the beginning of this new century.

Solidarity is working for greater access to and equity in wealth, ideas and opportunities -amongst individuals and nations, and it means sharing both economic and non-economic resources and ideas not only between rich and poor countries but also within all societies. It is the empowerment of the poor and marginalized in an environment of mutual trust and respect, caring and sharing. Join us in this struggle for a world of justice, as opposed to a world governed by oppressive and exploitative hierarchies.


Phenyo Motlhagodi,15 (Botswana/ Zimbabwe)
"To me SOLIDARITY means to fully sympathise with someone to help them et through a problem. A typical example of people going on solidarity with one another is through our SADC. For example he time when Tanzannia helped Uganda defeat Idi Amin (Ugandan president), when the country lacked democracy. In a way solidarity could simply mean nations uniting to get some form of peace."




In Africa in 1999
200,000 killed by war
2,200,000 killed by AIDS

Worldwide
13 million orphans
6 young people infected by HIV every minute

Around the world today, children are increasingly not only war's victims, but also its combatants.An estimated 300,000 children under the age of eighteen are currently participating in armed conflicts in more than thirty different countries on nearly every continent. While most child soldiers are in their teens, some are as young as seven years old.



Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers

Mines kill and mutilate 8 000 to 10 000 children each year.

Children form 25 percent of those treated for landmine injuries in Red Cross units in the Afghan and Cambodian conflicts, and 75 percent of the mine-related injuries in a hospital in northern Somalia

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International Campaign to Ban Landmines

A child who survives a mine blast is likely to be seriously injured and permanently disabled. They may lose one or both legs or arms and suffer horrific injuries to their abdomen and genitals. Shrapnel may cause blindness and disfigure their face.




Children are often under-represented in hospitals that treat landmine injuries -- many simply do not survive a landmine blast because of their size. Some are killed outright or die of sheer agony. They may not survive the huge losses of blood which result from landmine injuries.





Sign
The Hunger Site Petition.

Currently, 24,000 people die each day of hunger or hunger-related causes –
75% of these people are children under five. (www.Hungersite.com)


Half the world -- nearly three billion people --
live on less than two dollars a day.

The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations
(i.e. a quarter of the world's countries)
is less than the wealth of the world's three richest people combined.
(Le Monde Diplomatique)


The developing world now spends $13 on debt
repayment for every $1 it receives in grants.
(www.Globalissues.org)


During each second
that you took to read this -- almost two acreas
of rainforest
disappeared.

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