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Under the German motto “Türen öffnen für Kinder!” (in English: “Open doors for children!”) the Federal Association is pursuing the goal of calling for and implementing the rights of children and teenagers on a local level more effectively.
The Federal Association for local children’s lobbies wants, as a network, to intensify cooperative exchanges and the mutual advice, to offer qualifications, to develop standards and tools, maintain collective public relations, deliver professional statements and support the work of their members in the local authorities effectively.
In many local authorities and counties children’s and youth representatives, children’s commissions, platforms for children’s politics, children’s and youth agencies or similar agencies campaign for the interests of boys and girls. “We are seismographs for children’s worlds and their potential dangers. We are the link between children and teenagers, administration, politics and publicity. The participation of children and teenagers is a basic principle of our work,” describes Jana Frädrich, Children’s Representative of the State capital Munich, and founder member, the work of the Federal Foundation members.
About 30 local children’s lobbies and representatives support the foundation. The Federal Association is open to new members who support the common goals and actively want to assist in the implementation. The work in the Federal Association local lobbies should benefit the boys and girls on site in the long run.
The UN-Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as the results of the “National Action Plan for a child-oriented Germany 2005-2010” (in German: NAP) served as important basic principles for the Federal Association. The foundation of the Federal Association for local children’s lobbies took place before the final NAP Congress in Berlin, to which participants from all over Germany were expected.
(Children’s Representative of the State capital, Munich, Jana Frädrich – 7 December 2010)
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