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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Nurturing the Next Generation |
| 2005-03-06 |
| (3rd item) The "Children's Parliament" in Missan introduced the basic concepts of democracy to Iraqi Kids. Sponsored by "Friends of Democracy", the "Iraqi novel association" with cooperation with the "orphans cultural club" and the "children's health committee" held a seminar and an open discussion about democracy as part of the "children parliament" project that was adopted since august 2004. At the beginning of the seminar, novelist Mohammed Rasheed who's the manager of the Iraqi novel association and the father of the "parliament" idea made a short speech in which he described the idea of the "parliament" and welcomed the audience among which there were-in addition to the girls and boys from pre high schools-several journalists and intellectuals from the city. After the opening speech, came a bunch of activities represented by poems, short stories and speeches prepared by the young students. These activities were followed by an open discussion that was preceded with explaining basic definitions like freedom, democracy, respecting others' opinion in a simplified way. After that came the student's turn to voice their understanding of those terms and they expressed their interest in becoming the active nucleus in this project. They (the students) listed their requirements for the project by the following:
By the end of the activities, gifts and prizes were distributed among the participating students. |
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