Children’s Day Of Broadcasting: Children’s hopes to go on air on March 3

ISLAMABAD: Broadcasters around the country will provide children and adolescents the opportunity to share their hopes, dreams and aspirations about their future in a better world to contribute to the United Nations debate on the post-2015 development agenda.

Unicef and leading broadcasters in Pakistan will celebrate this year’s International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) on March 3 by involving young people in discussing priorities for the future through specially produced ICDB programmes.

This year’s theme is ‘Our World, Our Future,’ said a news release on Saturday.

In his message on the day, Unicef’s Representative in Pakistan Dan Rohrmann, said, “I am so impressed by the vision and confidence of children and adolescents in Pakistan and I am confident they will have a great many ideas and opinions that will contribute to the global debate on the future development agenda.”

Published in The Express Tribune, March 3^rd, 2013.