Environment and Children's Wellbeing with Terence Hamilton of UNICEF Canada

Kyla is joined by Terence Hamilton, domestic policy specialist focusing on child rights, health equality, and social justice with UNICEF Canada, or the United Nations Children’s Fund. UNICEF was established after world war 2 and works for child rights and well being. UNICEF helps children through natural disasters and humanitarian crises, and works to build global health and welfare systems that provide essential services, education, and safe environments for children and their families. Terence tells Kyla about the Innocenti Report Card 17, which focuses on the following questions: How do environmental factors affect children’s well-being? How are many of the world’s richest countries faring in terms of providing a healthy environment in which children can live, develop and thrive? What actions can these countries take to improve the environments in which children live? There’s a focus on Canada’s place in the report card, though Kyla urges everyone to read the general report as well.

Other links from this episode:
Join the Halloween Walk-a-thon
Canadian Youth taking Federal Government to court for climate justice
Check out the beautiful animations on UNICEF’s Places and Spaces page
C-210 has been proposed to lower the voting age from 18 to 16.

Terence’s call to action: Talk to the young people in your lives about these issues and really listen to what they have to say.