The community of Saint-Martin organizes each year in November, a week dedicated to children, in partnership with Sint-Maarten, as part of World Day for the Rights of the Child. This year, when hurricane IRMA prevented this annual meeting, the vice-president Annick Pétrus, president of the Solidarity and Families Pole wished to mark this event by a press release recalling the rights of the child.
Defending the rights of the child is an everyday mission for the administrative services and more generally for everyone. This is why in 1996, the French Parliament decided to make November 20 the "World Day for the Defense and Promotion of the Rights of the Child" (Law 96/296 of April 9, 1996).
This day dedicated to children is a special moment whose objective is to raise awareness of the respect for children's rights and the many injustices that still persist. This day also highlights the international convention on the rights of the child adopted by the United Nations on November 20, 1989. It is made up of 54 articles and has been ratified by 191 countries out of 193 (only the United States and Somalia have refused to commit).
Thus, the convention recalls that the child is a fragile being that must be protected. Children have rights such as the right to be protected, educated, cared for, wherever in the world they are born. He must be able to live a child's life with all that that entails rights and duties.
Some eloquent figures:
One million poor children worldwide
19.000 abused children
76.000 are in danger in a degraded family context and which threatens their educational and / or material development
Some 240.000 children placed or cared for
150 girls and boys leave the school system every year with no prospects
15% of children arriving at college do not understand what they are reading ...
As Ms. Pétrus reminds us, the Solidarity and Families Pole - Childhood and Families Directorate - of the community of Saint-Martin acts daily in favor of children in difficulty thanks to its support missions.
Maternal Child Protection (PMI) is another free public service in the community, open to pregnant women and mothers. The PMI exercises its missions within the Houses of Solidarity and Families of the community of Saint-Martin (dispensaries). Its goal: to support you in the best possible way before and after the baby is born.
Solidarity and Family Houses:
Concordia:
10, rue Mont Carmel: 0590 87 93 22
Sandy Ground: 104,
Sandy Ground Road: 0590 87 07 52.
Orleans district:
11, rue de Coralita: 0590 87 37 21.
Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 8 a.m. to 16 p.m.,
and Wednesday and Friday from 8 a.m. to 13:30 p.m.
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