Advocate to end child exploitation

You can help end child exploitation by urging your local lawmakers to support these two important pieces of legislation!

Over 250,000 children around the world are being forced to sacrifice their childhoods and risk their lives as soldiers in armed groups.

Join Plan and YUGA in the fight to end the use of child soldiers by printing The Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007, getting your classmates to sign it, and urging your congressperson to cosponsor the act, which calls for the end of US military assistance to governments using child soldiers.

You can also help support the rights of children everywhere by urging your local Senator to support the U.S. ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), an international law designed to protect and promote the rights of children. The United States and Somalia are the only two countries in the UN who have not yet ratified the CRC. Use our form or create a letter of your own to advocate on behalf of this important piece of legislation.

Make sure you fill in the date, correct name and title of your senator or representative.

You can also get your classmates involved by using the talking points on the last page of this petition and creating your own specialized letter to your congressperson.

To find your congressperson go to:
Senators — http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Representatives — http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Get as many signatures as you can and mail them to:

Sarah Bouchard
155 Plan Way
Warwick, RI 02886

We will collect and sort all the letters and send them in for you!

“I don’t know about other offices, but we really pay attention to the constituent campaigns. Getting multiple packets of letters from middle and high school classrooms is really what did the trick.”
— US Senator on co-sponsoring the Child Soldier Prevention Act in June 2007

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