World Children's Day messages

Govt. accomplished many tasks towards betterment of children - President

In every country the children constitute its posterity. Any effort to improve their lot will in turn help make the country's future more meaningful, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa issuing a message to mark the World Children's Day.

It said: To guarantee a better future for our children, our Government has accomplished many a task which no other Government has ever attempted. A separate Child Development and Women Empowerment Ministry was set up and the security of the children has been assured. The year 2006 had been declared the National Children's Year. Since then the present Government has done its utmost to ensure the security and development of the child.

However, in a social, economic and cultural environment which is often in change and flux, the children have to face challenging situations in the family, school and society at large. Consequently, the parents, teachers and adults owe a greater responsibility to make their lives more secure.

It is therefore incumbent on them to listen to the child and understand him so that the world of the children as well as the future world would be peaceful and beautiful.

I wish the World Children's Day which we commemorate under the theme, "Let us listen to the children and make the world more beautiful," be a strength to make the children's well-being and security, a success.