This was my favorite picture from the community walk because I was glad to see that the community gave tribute to the Philadelphia Negro League because a lot of black people do not recieve a lot of credit and for them to have a whole memorial deicated to the Philadelphia Baseball Negro League its a step up from not reconizing black people at all.

Today in class i read a piece. I read a article on youth rights. It was saying that youth need to get known more and adults need to pay more attetion to their youth. For example they said that children need more rec centers and organizations like that. There was a couple of things that i didnt under stand one thing was that it was talking about migration and youth and didnt under stand it. Also I didnt understand that the age part of the article.

Basically the article is telling me about the difference between men and women to be migrants but focuses on the women. It is also describing how hard it is for the migrant women to find good jobs to take care of their families on the income they receive. Next the article goes into the help that the women overseas get from our government it’s not much but it keeps the children clothed and educated. Also it explains the difference from the 1990’s and now. Basically now our government helps migrants here in the U.S.

In Ghana, West Africa a little over $180 was handed over to the mother of a child and the deal was sealed a child of 3 had just been pawned by his parents to a local fisherman to be used as a diver in the Volta river to arrange fishing nets to facilitate heavy catches. It is estimated that until the practice came to light and exposed, at least 10 children were sold each day by poor parents to fishermen or anybody who was interested in buying them. These children, including some who were only three years old were sold into virtual slave labour for as much as US $180 and as little as $5 in extreme cases. the children was given out by their parents to work virtually as slaves for others in order for their parents to earn money. Ernest Taylor, the project coordinator, said the 1,203 children being reunited with their families represented a small fraction of the Ghanaian children sold by their parents into virtual slavery. Most are boys aged between 3 and 14 who are forced to work long hours casting and drawing nets. They are poorly fed and never paid. Sometimes, they drown in their attempts to retrieve nets caught on tree stumps at the bottom of the lake. The children that have not been sold into slavery to be used by other but have been forced by the economic situations at home to make a livelihood along the coast where they help mend nets and pull catches to the shore.

They said in an AP news report last year reported that some 15,000 Benin children work in Nigerian granite pits cracking stones. 116 have been returned to their homes, some unfortunately have died there.
An analysis into the background of the children show that they come from very poor backgrounds and were sold off when their parents could not afford keeping them around. This crude form of adoption was, perhaps to the parents, the only means by which they-parents and other sibling and the children involved could.
They also said In our part of the world, where the rule is, “survival by all means necessary’, the abuse of the rights of the child is a simple issue of survival. Faced with the harsh realities of poverty parents, institutions and governments have virtually thrown overboard almost all the rights of the African child outlined in the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.

The summary i read was about migration. It was about how immigrants went to different countries to find work, food, etc. The money the immmigrants earned went to fill hungry bellies, clothe poor children and educate the uneducated.As work, migrant women, they toiled the households of more wealthy fa milies, they soothed the sick and also helped the elderly. They also contributed their technical,professional expertise pay takes and try to make those important whose live s has been taken for granted.

As i read thi article I wondered:

1. How come some countries had money and the others didnt?

2. How come some parts of the migrated countries have money and the othewrs dont?

3. Why didn't the people inwhich the immigrants cleaned their homes, why didn't they pay the immigrants a little extra?

The article's topic was based on xenophobia and discrimination. The article was talking about how a man named Simon attented a christmas party that was organized by the manager from work. The people who also attented were some of his friends. Simon stayed in a small group of people that consisted of students, engineers, IT specialist, lawyers, and laboures. They were all having a good discussion until it became political. A man named Phil introduced his thoughts of manners. He stated that he can't believe those bastards killed our children in Bali. Kick them, send them back to where they belong. They can't fit in with our, the Australian. Simon stated his opinion about what Phil said and Simon asked Phil you are trying to say that we should deport, kick out, detain every single Muslim and person who doesn't fit into of society? You are telling me that al Muslims are terrorist and all of them hate us? Phil said yes. Simon felt as though that was vey ignorant and discrminating because he felt like all Muslims aren't terroist and everyone should be treated equally. He also thought that people discriminating other people was over and thar was over a hundred yeas ago.

Do you think what Phil said was worng?

Do you think other people think that all Muslims are terrorsits?

Are their more people like Phil still out there?

Does discrimination still exist agianst other races?

What can we do to prevent it?

Immagration is important to me because some of my family are immagrents and it would affect me if they had to leave out of the country. It would make me highly upset if i had to leave relatives. They are immagrants from Mexico, Africa and somewhere elese. They are not close relatives but family is family.

If immigration effect you?
I think immigration does effect you I believe it effect everybody. You don't have to move to a different country you could just move into a different area of your city. So, yes i do believe migration do effect me and everyone else and it is very important.

What I thought about today was that I think that we weren’t as prepared as we could have been because I really didn’t comprehend a lot of what they were talking about as far the lady answering the other student’s questions. It wasn’t really a big issue as far as us being prepared because the students from the other school actually take a class that deals with human rights and migration.
Our school went to the UN day to learn other information the migration and the other 5 topics. When we broke up into our small group discussions I was in the group concerning children’s rights. I thought my group was interesting and I learn a lot about children’s rights. There was a girl named Jenifer in my group and she went to Delaware Valley Friends. I not sure what grade she was in but she knew a lot about children’s rights. My Facilitator named was Sara Kitchen and she told us that she started to want to be involved in children’s rights when she was a teenager and she worked as a waitress at a dinner in Massachusetts she overheard two guards that worked at a school a mile away from her home would talk about how they would torture the young men that went to the school. That situation made her want to go into the fields of children’s rights so she studied law and decided after a while to go from law to the classroom and now she is a professor at Chestnut Hill College.
Some of the things I learned The Convention on the Rights of the child is part of education and core curriculums around the world, parents leave their homes to migrate and sometime they take their children with them or they leave them with family members Children migrate to the U.S. so that they can get a better education to receive better jobs some become citizens of the United States others go back to their country, if a child were migrating to come to a Quaker school they could do community service to receive a green card or they can go back to their country, also if they are in a quarter school they would learn the religion if they are a Quaker, and they can easily be abused. This was a good opportunity because I learned a lot about children’s rights and that’s something I wouldn’t mind studying in the future I can’t wait to learn more when everybody come on Dec.1.

1. Why did you attend the UN conference?
I attended the UN conference because i wanted to learn more about children who migrate and their rights.
2. What is your interest in learning about human rights/migration?
My intrest is to learn about children's right and migration because i think it is importatnt for all people and children to be free from anything that may harm them and anyone should have the right to choose where they want to live.
3.What do you already know about human rights/migration?
i know some of the human rights and i know that when you migrate you have to get a green card and when it expires you can either go back to your country or get your green card renewed.
4. What did you learn at the conference?
At the conference i learned about children's rights and that The Convention on the Rights of the child is part of education and core curriculums around the world,parents leave their homes to migrate and sometime they take their children with them or they leave them with family members,
children migrate to the U.S. so that they can get a better education to receive better jobs some become citizens of the United States others go back to their country,If a child were migrating to come to a Quaker school they could do community service to receive a green card or they can go back to their country,also if they are in a quarter school they would learn the religion if they are a Quaker,and they can easily be abused.
5. What aspects are you interested in learning more about?
The aspects i am intrested in learning in are children's right/youth.
6. Do you know what the Millennium Development Goals are? If so, what do you know about them? No i do not know about the Millennium Development Goals.

My reflection is i was in school and the principal said everybody go home and i didn't know why but when i got home and i watched the news i was kind of scared because my grandmom lives in New York and i thought she was going to get hurt.It impacted me alot because a few of my cousins died and thats how it impacted me.

Stop the violence and racisim
I don't understand why people refer to African-Americans as Blacks. I also don't understand why people only think that African-Americans are the main problem. I would like some answers and soon. But another concern is the the increasing violence. I think that the citizens should have more marches against violence and I also think that there should be more gun laws and I honestly think that a weapon and ammunition should cost more so people will stop buying them.

What can we do to minimize this violence?
To minimize violecne we could starting having neighborhood recration centers have disscussion or diffeent activites for the s=children so that we can get them off the corners and the streets. So that they are occupied with something else other than drugs and hanging on the corner half the night. We also could have more police out at night on the corners getting the children in the house safe so that the violence doesn't increase.
How can we bring about change?
We can bring about change by getting unlisenced guns off the streets, making sure children under 18 aren't outside half the night, and more security around the neighborhoods and schools areas.
How does it affect our identity?
It affects our identity by how we abuse it. We abuse it by using unlisenced guns to kill each other and young children are out here working on corners and using violence such as guns and fighting. I think if we didn't abuse the issuse that there are unlisenced guns out there that people could get to use that we would be safer because if its a lisenced gun they should use it for self defense not to kill people. We would be more safer if we would stop the violence and increase the peace

What inspires you?
Tracy McGrady because he does his best in basketball and i try to do my best in life and school.

Tell us about an issue that matters to you and how you became aware and involved.
Violence because it goes on alot in my neighborhood and i gotta be in the house because drug dealers be having gun wars at night.I became involved because i try to keep my family in the house at a certain time.

Share your perspectives on what makes a good leader.
I good leader is a person who doesn't follow followers.A good leaders goes his own way and not with the crowd.

Do you think TakingITGlobal can help you achieve some of your goals? Have we already? Please tell us how.
It probably can because i wanna know how people live in China and on TakingITGlobal i can.

I think this is an important issue that i am glad that is being addressed. i know that this march goes on every year. Stoping the violence march is something that effects poeple who have had people in their lives die from violenece, and they come out to supposrt to hope trhat this issue sinks into the minds of people who own a weapon that can kill. Its not only weapons its poeple too. Violence can be fighting and it needs to stop. If this march goes on every year why do we continue to have so many people dying in Philadelphia? People need to really come out and listen to the message that we are trying to get across because having more than a thousand people dying is unexceptable. They need more cops to get these drug dealers off the street, the guns off the street and our kids need to stay safe. I hope the message that we present helps people to understand that this matter in hand needs to be handled because we need to stop the violence and increase the peace.