We Came Together at the Children’s Rights Festival!

As the Refugees Association, we talked about children’s rights with various workshops at the Children’s Rights Festival organized on November 20 for World Children’s Rights Day. In the activities that took place with the participation of about 125 children from 5 different schools, the children had fun and learned their rights in the workshops they attended.


Children’s Rights are for all children. It doesn’t matter where they were born, no matter what language they speak. No child is discriminated against because of the beliefs or opinions of his elders.


World Children’s Rights Day is celebrated annually on November 20 as the anniversary of the recognition of the fundamental rights of children. The right to non-discrimination priority, the protection of the child’s interests, the right to life and development and participation are among the most basic rights of the child. We celebrated this meaningful day together with the children in Sultanbeyli. On November 22, 2021, we organized a Children’s Rights Festival with the participation of students studying at primary schools in Sultanbeyli at the Sultanbeyli Gymnasium. The children participating in the festival settled down at the tables with workshops such as rhythm, wood painting, science, exercise and puppet workshop and had fun and received information about children’s rights.

We started with an exercise workshop to remind children who closed their homes during the pandemic and turned to digital media for games about the importance of sports. At the rights workshop, children’s rights were talked about. They chose one or more of their rights, put them on paper, wrote freely, painted, decorated them… And the ones who stood out among all of the works were about the education, health, housing rights. They revived their favorite memories by drawing them in the frame workshop, took them to their homes to keep. They painted their spinners in the colors they wanted, turned them over when they dried. They realized their entertainment rights with a box game. They had fun as a group. In the rhythm workshop, they made sounds from the tray, table and various instruments from the tools at their hands. They organized together, made music. Finally, they experienced making toys from waste materials in the recycling workshop. The rest is plenty of fun and dancing…