Genevieve Whitaker, a legislative coordinator for Amnesty International, speaks @ Shorecrest Prepara

(St. Petersburg, Florida, 2007)

~Third Graders Learn about Children's Rights Genevieve Whitaker, a legislative coordinator for Amnesty International, spoke to Mrs. Drexler's third grade class on Thursday. The class learned about the 1990 Convention on the Rights of the Child and the effort to protect children in war-torn countries. Ms. Whitaker gave the example of children in Uganda who are kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to work or fight. http://ebytes.shorecrest.org/Jan06-Jun08/program070330.html