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Local children to meet Dalai Lama
12.04.11
by Eamonn McDermott, Inishowen Independent
CHILDREN from Scoil Eoghan in Moville are facing the
“exciting but daunting” task of opening a major
conference on social justice tomorrow and meeting
the Dalai Lama.
The children from fifth class are travelling to
Dublin for the conference entitled 'Possibilities’
to be held in Citywest Hotel on April 13.
Teacher Rose Kelly explained: “The children put on a
performance in a project we were doing in
conjunction with the Family Resource Centre.
“Their performance was noticed and they were put in
for this conference in Dublin and have been selected
to perform at the opening.”
She added: “This is a major conference on social
justice organised by Children in Crossfire and an
organisation called AFRi and will be looking at
social justice and injustice. |
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Children from fifth class at Scoil
Eoghan, Moville, who will perform at a conference in
Dublin chaired by the Dalai Lama. |
“The conference will be
chaired by the Dalai Lama and the speakers will
include Richard Moore and Mary Robinson.
“Afterwards the children will act as a guard of
honour for the Dalai Lama and then get to meet him.”
Ms Kelly said it was a "great honour" for the
children.
“All in all some 36 children were involved in this
project but not all of them are going to Dublin.
“The piece they did is called ‘Close your Eyes’ and
it looked at social justice and inequalities.
“As part of it, the children had to research and get
figures on the Gorta Mór (The Great Famine) and then
look at how resources are used and indeed wasted.”
She added: “As well as the thrill of performing at
this conference the children also learned quite a
lot from this experience.
“You could see that they were very conscious that
they are not only performing a piece of street
theatre but that they are speaking for children who
have no voice.” |
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