"Children help children": this is the slogan of the First National Day of Prayer for the Children, which, promoted by the National Body of Missionary Children, is celebrated in Ireland today to "teach children explain the organisers to sympathetically share in with their peers who live in the mission countries". "By praying, we express our hope in a fairer and more peaceful world, in which children may touch our hearts with their testimony" of "innocence, goodness and hope in the future", said the archbishop of Dublin, mgr. Diarmuid Martin. He added: "we have to join forces parents, teachers and children to give all the children hope in a dignified future". The materials developed for the "Day" show situations and statistics to which the event will pay special attention. In India, one child out of five dies of intestinal diseases, while in Liberia 20% of the forces fighting in the civil war were made up of children. Every day, in the world, 16 thousand children die of starvation: 1 child every five seconds. Finally, in Latin America, 70% of girls aged five to 14 go to work instead of attending school.
