On Emirati Children's Day ... Tweeters remember "Zayed" ... "The child is the pleasure of the liver and the light of the eye."

The UAE Child Day hashtag tops the list of the most popular hashtags on Twitter in the UAE, and the tag witnessed wide interaction by the tweeters who praised this national event that the state celebrates on March 15 of each year in conjunction with the adoption of the “Wadima” law for the child, which came as confirmation. On the state’s vision and its keenness to educate future generations. 

The tweeters recalled, God willing, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, may God rest his soul, who paid great attention to children and childhood based on his insightful vision that the child is the basis of nation building, and they circulated the saying of the forgiven in which he said: “The child is the pleasure of the liver and the light of the eye ... His smile illuminates the world on us ... and his misery is grief, pain and despondency.

The tweeters praised the state’s achievements in the field of child care, protection and promotion of childhood rights, in a way that contributes to the upbringing of this group, stressing that the allocation of a day to celebrate the Emirati child reflects the interest of our wise leadership in the child and its emphasis on the importance of this age stage in human formation and building future generations. The future, with their arms, builds the future of the nation.

The slogan “Emirati Children's Day 2021” bears the slogan “The right of the child to play,” which is in line with the UAE government's explicit commitment to preserving the rights of the child, as the Child Rights Law “Wadima” stipulates in Article (30) that “the state shall form councils and associations. Children's clubs and centers, which specialize in the cultural, artistic, scientific and physical development of children, as well as other aspects of development, ”according to what the official website of the“ Emirati Children's Day ”mentions.

Emirati Children's Day came as an initiative of Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, President of the General Women's Union, Chair of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairperson of the Family Development Foundation, as part of the National Strategy for Motherhood and Childhood 2017-2020, with the aim of educating all groups of Emirati society about the rights of the child and its importance in the field of family and society. And by stimulating governmental institutions, private institutions, civil society institutions and individuals, to enhance their role in achieving development and implementing national plans and programs.

Coinciding with the occasion, and under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, President of the General Women's Union, Chair of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation "Mother of the Emirates", the Emirati Parliament for Children held its first inaugural session of the first legislative term, hosted by the Federal National Council virtually.

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