When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information, using schools and other sites; more protection for girls, orphaned children and young women;and more partnerships with people with HIV and AIDS.

Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.