RANDOMKID'S

KID DELEGATED "UNITED NATIONS"

Nuts and Bolts Presentation

Talia Leman

RandomKid's CEO & Co-Founder

This is a serious opportunity to develop an international YOUTH VOICE.

1. The kids will all be 10-17 years old.  

2. We will have one delegate from every country, and possibly one from each U.S. state.

3. Every country will have one vote. The kids from the U.S. will have one vote for the U.S., and we will vote based on how the majority of us vote. 

4. We will issue official statements about world news and events. This means that when something is going on in the world, I will send you a summarized story about it, and you will answer 3 questions, around 3 anyway, with your opinions. I will take the most common opinion that is written well and clear and I will make it into our official statement. Randomkid will issue our opinions to the media.  

5. We will pass resolutions. The UN passes resolutions and it does not always mean that anything happens, but they pass resolutions anyway, saying what is right as a fact. We will decide what is right sometimes, and vote on and pass resolutions.  

6. We will not be able to send in peace-keeping troops like the UN does, but when there is no peace, and we want to do soemthing, we can send peace-keeping letters. We have to talk about this, but I am thinking that we can cut out paper dove outlines, and everyone will write on them something like: "My name is Jose, I am 12 years-old, and I come from Mexico, I am a representative of a youth delegated United Nations, and I am sending wishes for peace to your country." I will give you the address for the government and we will all send them. They will get them from all over the world.  

7. We will decide world policy. Now this is a hard one to explain because I learned this from the man in Cambodia who is building a school we (Randomkid) funded. He said that when we give money to places like Cambodia Schools or AIDS, we are deciding world policy. This is so hard to understand but I will try to explain. Our government gives money to people and they decide who to give to because of their policy. If they think that education is the most important thing in America, they give a big percent of our taxes to education, and how much they give is because of their policy. Foreign policy is what they decide about other countries. If they want to help with stopping terrorism, then they pay for more military people to go to the Middle East, and they give money to organizations that help with peace. When we give money to Cambodia, or Africa, or whatever, we are doing world policy. Our policy is that children have a right to education. So we funded it. I think we should do only one fundraiser a year, and it won't matter how much we raise, but it will be our world policy. We will choose projects that are our world policy, and are what we think it right and make a statement.  

8. If a delegate does not send their opinion on the news, or vote on a resolution, or send their peace dove or whatever we decide we should be doing, they will have to give up there spot for someone who really wants to be a VOICE. This won't be too much work. We will limit it to maybe three statements a year, one resolution, and one peace keeping effort. Any one can lead this. I can start, and if any one wants to try, they can do it.   

9. We can also learn about each other, of course, and help each other out sometimes.  

Even though I am writing this like it's fact, we will decide all of this, all of the final things, together.

Who's in?