An Audience with Lauren

On 8th March, 2010, Lauren Child, MBE - UNESCO Artist for Peace - attended the Colloquium, Reaching the Marginalised in the Institute of Education, London. The event was jointly organised by UK National Commission for UNESCO, UKFIET and the Institute of Education, University of London. In attendance was HE Matthew Sudders, UKs Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO.
Lauren, as UNESCO Artist for Peace, wished to share her goals and aspirations for a world without marginalisation, how together we can make a difference and that there is much more to education than simply buildings.
British author and illustrator, Lauren Child is UNESCO's latest Artist for Peace and was formally inducted in a ceremony at UNESCO headquarters on December 12. Lauren follows in the footsteps of Lord Yehudi Menuhin, who was a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Lord Yehudi, promoted a culture of peace through his music, as Lauren does with her incredible stories and illustrations. She has won numerous awards for her best-selling children's books featuring now well-known characters such as Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean, and That Pesky Rat.

The award of UNESCO Artist for Peace, is a recognition of Laurens work with UNESCO's Programme for the Education of Children in Need, which is a program that works to provide education to vulnerable children. This programme, created in 1992, has raised over $33 million that has been fully given to over 332 projects in 92 countries.

Lauren has also shown her dedication to helping deprived and disadvantaged children in numerous ways. One way has been through a three-year agreement that all royalties and publisher profits of Child's book That Pesky Rat will be donated to UNESCO and will finance various projects for children in need.

Another result of Laurens and UNESCO's partnership is a project called "My Life as a Story." In this campaign, Lauren seeks to document stories from children around the world. This project was motivated in part by a 2007 trip to Fondation Renacimiento, which is a center for street children in Mexico City. She found, "One of the things [the children] said to me there was that they would really like to be connected to children in other places.
At the colloquium, Laurens enthusiasm was infectious, and will have inspired many to aim in the path for her guiding light. A new star shines brightly.
The music When a Child is Born is from A Ray of Hopes album, and the second item is the very accomplished choir from the School for Art and Music, Mozyr, Belarus.

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[janovicsilona]

Thank You!******** LONA

[UNESCO123]

@janovicsilona Thank you Lona

[Weltenbummler1949]

Nice video and song

Happy Easter

Peace & Love

Helmut

[UNESCO123]

@Weltenbummler1949 Thank you Don

[qualqui]

Beautiful Song, great images,....the world needs more people like sweet Lauren,...sendin' ya 5* UNESCO123 and thankin' YThemertY for sharin'!

[UNESCO123]

Thank you for your kind comment

Every best wish

Don

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[lobdet]

Indeed my friend... together we can make a difference.....

[YThemertY]

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[TheToltec]

Good:)