2024-09-10 22:46:35
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The awareness-raising and reflection session for young girls and vulnerable people on the future pact was launched by the Ministry for the Promotion of Women, Children and Vulnerable People (MPFEPV) accompanied by UNICEF, on Tuesday, September 3
At the end of this meeting at the headquarters of the Ministry of the MPFEPV, in Landréah, the children are imbued with the content of the pact for the future which will be adopted during the summit of the future in New York at the headquarters of the United Nations on September 22 and 23, 2024, where the leaders will discuss the future and development.
Minister Charlotte Daffé welcomed this commitment from UNICEF before encouraging children to get more involved.
The representative of UNICEF in Guinea, Félix Ackebo, did not hesitate to reveal his attachment to the causes of children, health, peace, but also education among others.
On these words, the economist of the United Nations System Coordination Office in Guinea, Omar Ismael Abdurrahman revealed: “it is an awareness session on the pact of the future that will be adopted during the summit of the future that will be organized in New York at the United Nations headquarters on September 22 and 23, 2024, where all heads of government and state will meet to adopt this pact. So this pact is a way first, in the first instance, to reaffirm the commitment.
The commitment to support multilateralism and the United Nations system, so that countries can accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Second point, it is to be able to take into account the new challenges that, as you know, the SDGs or the 2030 agenda was adopted in 2015. Since then, we have had a number of new challenges, such as for example for health issues, food insecurity issues, conflict issues that must be taken into account in the pact for the future, “they spread out in general.
For the specific case of young girls, involvement through amendments is highlighted.
“Today’s session was to raise awareness among young girls about what the pact brings them. Because there are a number of areas that are concerned, and what particularly concerns the young girls who are gathered here today is that there is a part that is aimed at young people and future generations.
So, it was important that they be made aware, that we could gather their opinions, their views, their priorities in relation to this process but also allow through the United Nations system that representatives of young girls’ associations
can participate in the summit in New York. Within the group of young girls themselves, we have identified a certain number of participants who will play the role of rapporteurs, who will make recommendations, I hope, as quickly as possible so that during the Guinean delegation that will be in New York, they can take these recommendations into account, so that the head of government or the minister who will be the head of the delegation can include it in his statement,” he reassured.
Many amendments were made to this effect. Mariame Diallo, the president of the Children’s Parliament of Guinea, emphasized: “We first thank the authorities for involving us, the children, the young people, to take part in this activity because our ideas count and we are really going to show them what we are capable of. First, we should remember that everything that is done for children, without the children, is against us, the children. So, we asked different questions. For example, we asked for children who have not been to school, what should be done for these children? We asked questions about health, the environment, education. About deaf-mute and visually impaired children. All this because we note first in Guinea that there are schools for the deaf-mute in Boulbinet, the problem is that the cycle only stops in the 6th grade.
And once they get there, they don’t have the chance to go to middle school and high school. So, we ask the authorities to build a lot of schools for deaf-mute and visually impaired children. Because they should also finish their studies.”
Based on these requests, many children and vulnerable people will benefit from assistance for a more fulfilling living environment.
May Cissé