{"id":16343,"date":"2011-12-06T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetree.site\/?p=16343"},"modified":"2020-05-07T08:24:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T06:24:18","slug":"barnens-motesplats-pa-fn-firar-10ar-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetree.site\/en\/barnens-motesplats-pa-fn-firar-10ar-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Children's Meeting Place 10 year celebration UN Nairobi 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Children's Meeting Place at the UN \n10 year Celebration 2011<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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An astronaut is Guest of Honor!<\/h3>
During three days 18 \u2013 20 November we celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the Children\u2019s Meeting Place \u2013 the Mother Tree at the United Nations, Nairobi, Kenya.\nThe children\u2019s special Guest of Honor Astronaut Loren Acton came all the way from Montana in USA together with his wife Evelyn. H.W. Mayor of Nairobi welcomed all guests of Honor to the Mayor\u2019s Parlor at Nairobi City Hall; The High Commissioner of Uganda, City Commissioner of Kuala Lumpur (Uganda) and many mayors from the Lake Victoria Region. The Mayors drafted a Promise to the children and the future. At the same time children and youth had workshops at the National Museums of Kenya. They shared their concerns for the future \u2013 to be presented to the official guests.\nThe Second Day was the Big Day at the The Children\u2019s Meeting Place \u2013 The Mother Tree at the United Nations. Speakers at the Official Opening were children, youth, the Director of UNICEF, the head of Children and Youth departments of UNEP and UN-HABITAT, representative of the Swedish Embassy, H.W. Mayor of Nairobi and Astronaut Loren Acton.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\u00a0Officials from six nations came together; Kenya, Malaysia, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda and USA. Messages were sent to the celebration from the God Mother, also the Patron of the Celebration, Ms Inga Bjork-Klevby (former Sweden\u2019s Ambassador to Kenya and former Deputy Executive Director of UN-HABITAT) and the Swedish and Norwegian Children\u2019s Ombudsman. All reminded of the importance to make the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child reality \u2013 as a way forward for children of the world. The drama My Life was performed by six children and youth from Dandora and inspired the seven seminars which followed the official opening. In a special ceremony, children united water and soil from places they care for.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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It was a moving honor of Children\u2019s Meeting Place \u2013 The Mother Tree and also honoring the 20 Children\u2019s Meeting Places which have been inaugurated during these ten years around the world. In the end, all participants and Guests of Honor were given a Gold Medal reminding everyone: When we work together we are all winners!\nThe third day H.W. Mayor of Nairobi officially presented the Cypress Tree next to the City Hall to be the Children\u2019s Meeting Place of Nairobi. The Cypress Tree is also the Nairobi Christmas Tree \u2013 known to most people. The Closing Ceremony of the celebration was a tree planting in Uhuru Park in memory of two friends of the Globetree \u2013 the Nobel Laureate Prof. Wangari Mathai and the Globetree advisor Mr. B\u00f6rje Berglund, who both passed away short before the 10 Year Anniversary.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Barnens m\u00f6tesplats p\u00e5 FN Firar 10\u00e5r 2011 Barnens Hedersg\u00e4st \u00e4r en astronaut! Under tre dagar, 10 \u2013 12 november, firar vi att Children\u2019s Meeting Place \u2013 The Mother Tree p\u00e5 FN i Nairobi \u00e4r 10 \u00e5r! Barnens speciella hedersg\u00e4st var Astronaut Loren Acton som kom fr\u00e5n Montana i USA tillsammans med sin fru Evelyn. Mayor\/Borgm\u00e4staren …<\/p>\n
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