Student Reflection in U-Class Session: Save These Children—Save the World

Students from grade 5D participated in U-class, an international platform wherein schools from all over the world participate in discussions on current issues. This was a part of the UOI topic: Government.

Here is a student reflection:

Children—our future. Innocent, happy, carefree, secure. This is how all children should be. However this is not so for many. The civil war in Syria has taken away much more than the childhood of thousands of children, leaving them scarred and terrorised.

We as citizens of a humanitarian world need to act now. We need to raise our voices, our helping hands. We need to wake—now.

The children of Syria have faced atrocities of Bashar Al Assad who has been insanely and aggressively accumulating power. Chemical weapons and dangerous gas were used on children, which the civil world has promised to ban. Wars are for soldiers, not for children. All games have rules. The world needs to speak on this method of fighting. The world needs to make the rules work.

We plead and urge the powerful nations to intervene. Not with force, not with military action, but only with love, with compassion, and with positive rehabilitation. We request the leaders of all affluent countries to set up functional schools for all the children of Syria. Send trained educationalists to teach them and guide them. Provide all needed books and stationery. 

Also set up recreational centres where the affected children can play sports and games, learn art, craft and music and lastly an excellent move would be to provide these children with homes and parents who are willing to adopt them.

Let us together save all children, nurture them, and create what is meant to be—a happy world.

 By                                                                                                                  

Daanyal Vali 5D