It's Your Right: Sorcha (11) on Children's Rights

Sorcha, aged 11 from Educate Together National School in Navan, Co. Meath, talks about every child's right to care and to a family, and how there are some children in the world who still don't have that right. Below is a text transcript of what Sorcha had to say.

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Sorcha: I’m Sorcha, I go to Navan Educate Together National School and I’m age 11.

Question: What right is important to you?

Sorcha: Eh, the right to be with your family or those who care for you best is important to me because you need it in your life. Like, to be able to be loved, like, have a house, be fed. Because, like, on the news or whatever you’d see, the amount of children that they’re just living on the street and they have to find there own food. They don’t have parents that they know and they don’t have money, they don’t have shelter, they don’t have clothes. And it’s very sad to just watch it.

Question: How would you feel if that right was taken away from you?

Sorcha: If that right was taken away from me I’d feel very upset, I’d feel very lonely and very sad.

Question: And what do you think children need?

Sorcha: Well, they need to have their rights met, they need to have a proper lifestyle, they need somebody to care for them.

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