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The Paralimni municipality council has created a new initiative to promote social awareness and involve young children into social and cultural aspects of the town. This is relevant with the theme of the month.According to the new scheme, young children who are still in primary school will be given the chance to provide their own opinions and suggestions in the running of the municipality council. This will be done regularly via a new committee. The new committee, called ‘Primary School Children’s Council’ has already had its first meeting a few days ago, with the mayor of Paralimni, Mr Andreas Evangelou. According to the mayor, ‘it has been a great experience for me. Our aim to improve the running of our town using the suggestions of the young children. I was surprised with their maturity and their constructive feedback’.
Let’s hope that more municipalities will do the same and get the young people involved. After-all these are the future citizens of Cyprus!
1 Response to Primary school students become council advisors in Paralimni
this is citizenship education and if it is done in an open and sincere manner, and the opinions of young citizens are really taken into consideration then this cannot but strengthen democratic process and community building.
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