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INTRODUCTION
OBJECTIVES
THE VERBANIA
DECLARATION
SPEAKERS
SPONSORS
& PATRONS
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A message to
the XIII World Congress of the
International Association of Educators for World Peace
Dear friends,
It is our great pleasure to send congratulations and greetings to the
organizers and participants of the 13th World Congress of International
Association of Educators for World Peace and we would like to express
our regret that we can not participate directly. But although we are not
physically present, the First Children's Embassy in the World - Megjashi
is there with you through its activities in involvement of all children
in the education, services like informal education of poor children,
support of the inner diverse families, development of the volunteerism,
the spirit and the practice of the non-violence, support of the children
in crises...
The fact that today 125 million children are out of the schools, proves
the enormous weigh of the problem about which IAEWP is focusing in this
Congress. According UN, there are 862 millions of illiterate people in
the whole world. Two thirds of them are females. According the latest
statistics from Macedonia, the number of illiterate people is 87.749,
which is more than 4 % of the whole population! 67.254 are women, 748
are girls between 10 to 14 years of age and 1079 are between 15 to 19
years of age.
What to do? It is obvious that the voice of the increasing number of
peaceful activists of the whole world do not reach the people in the
governments to whom everything is more important than peace,
non-violence, love, knowledge, honesty, correct behaving and the other
universal human values. It seems that there is a lot of work to be done
ahead of us on the local level. It is a big, difficult, but pleasant
challenge. On the other hand, the connection and focusing of the similar
organizations on a world level increases the energetic potential by
giving the message WE ARE NOT ALONE and that EVERYONE HAS A POWER FOR
POSITIVE CHANGES IN THE PLACE OF LIVING AND EVEN WIDER.
It is one of the many reasons we wait the conclusions of the 13th IAEWP
Congress impatiently and that is why we are on the side of IAEWP, as the
previous 10 years. We wish you a successful Congress!
Sincerely yours,
Dragi Zmijanac - Executive Director
and the whole team of the FCEW Megjashi |
