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Title: We Are The Future - Asmara
Location:
Global
Categories: Peace & Conflict
Status:
Completed
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
Eighteen years after Quincy Jones initiated the world famous “We are the World” campaign, the Glocal Forum, in strategic partnership with the World Bank and the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, launches a new campaign called “We are the Future” designed to secure a better future for children in conflict areas around the world.
The objective of the We are the Future (WAF) program is to set up child centers for children living in conflict areas and across the developing world, while building global city-to-city networks to support these centers. The We are the Future Child Centers will provide opportunities and services for children in the areas of education, health, nutrition, ICT, sports and the arts.
Six pilot WAF Centers are being established in:
• Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Asmara, Eritrea
• Freetown, Sierra Leone
• Kabul, Afghanistan
• Kigali, Rwanda
• Nablus, Palestine
Objectives:
The municipality of Asmara is in the process of identifying a building, in cooperation with the GYP and the Youth associations.
Children in Eritrea
• 17.000 children under the age of 5 die
every year in Eritrea;
• Infant mortality rate: 39/1000 live births;
• Child mortality rate: 60/1000 live births.
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