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- The Republic of Childhood was started 2 years ago
- Started from his love of children
- Embarking on intensive writing workshops
- includes coding, fiction, poetry, graphic novels, etc.
- Children's concerns and culture tends to not be on the political map
- Education tends to be huge bureaucracies
- If we put children at every step of the way, we'd have a better safer world/community
- They work in public school system, social housing, public library
- Based on the UN declaration of the rights of the child (children have the same rights as adults) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child)
- Landon Pearson (child advocate) at Carleton University. The name came from a book she wrote.
- Have adopted 5 schools and library,
- program is 2 hours (after school hours) twice a week for 5 weeks
- the kids are able to find a voice, one that isn't just a right/wrong answer
- looking to start a children's history month
- They want to give Children an equal playing field