Ann Veneman Children Quotations

With wintry conditions arriving in the higher elevations, children are facing a potentially deadly combination of cold, malnutrition, and disease,

So it's very important that we have an education program for families about how to protect children if they have sick birds around their homes.

Meeting the Millennium Development Goals depends on reaching vulnerable children throughout the developing world.

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

It is important to protect children from being recruited and used in armed conflict.

It is critical that the world unite for children and unite against AIDS. The size of the problem is staggering, but the scale of the response has been inadequate.

Most housing has been destroyed in the hardest-hit areas, so the survival of thousands of young children is now at stake.

We know that children under 18 are about half of the population in the affected areas. And therefore we think that about half of the victims, either injured or the dead, have been children.

To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

We must be prepared for a worsening drought. Children are especially vulnerable to malnutrition and disease and the burden on already over-stretched health, nutrition and water services will be even greater.

Almost one in three children in Zimbabwe, 1,6-million, are now orphaned, having lost at least one parent, and this number is growing. HIV and Aids have dramatically increased children's vulnerability in recent years.

Children are forced into prostitution, begging and soliciting, labor on plantations and in mines, markets, factories and domestic work.

I certainly, with no hesitation, would say that every mother can feel confident that they can feed their children beef in this country,