In the recent poster and writing competition organised by the Human Rights Commission, DeAndre Simmons placed first in the seven -to-nine-years-of-age category.

By DeAndre Simmons, Primary 3, Northlands Primary School

One world means to me that we are one family living with each other. Since we are living together we are one people.

This is how my family operates.

If we help each other, protect each other from danger, love each other, play with each other, we pray together, say nice things to each other, then we get to grow up better.

We become more loving and everything runs smoothly.

If we be selfish, hurt each other, ignore each other, hate each other, say rude things to each other, disrespect each other, then we grow slower, we learn slower, we become fighters and everything runs bad.

That's how the world is. If the world does not run smoothly like a family then we have fighting, we have people starving, people are getting sick and dying.

We have lots of problems because we don't live like one world and one people.

As one world and one people we should learn how to take care of each other and to learn how to get along with each other.