Children demand more funds and attention [Archives:2007/1059/Front Page]

By: Saddam Al-Ashmouri
SANA'A, June 13 – Organized collaboratively by the Democratic School (the General Secretariat of Children Parliament) and UNCIF organization, hundreds of children staged a sit-in before the Cabinet building after marching from Al-Tahrir Square. The sit-in aims at increasing the allowances allocated for children within the state's budget as well as international community organizations' aids.

Raising slogans that call for free education and health services, the children demanded clean water, increased number of schools and protection against fatal diseases. They also declared the interests paid in debt services are restrictions on children's future, especially when these debts are spent on meaningless things.

“We ask the government to raise the financial allocations for handicaps