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Students to be honoured

Students who have demonstrated ?outstanding humanitarian qualities? will be honoured tomorrow as part of the Universal Day of the Child celebrations.

The Ministry of Health and Family Services will host a lunch to present ?Young Citizenship Awards? to the students who have been nominated by their schools for demonstrating outstanding humanitarian qualities over the last year.

The Children?s Bill of Rights, which seeks to define the rights to which every child should be entitled, will also be circulated for the first time on the Island.

A number of other events were also scheduled:

l Dr. Earle Suttle, a motivational speaker for the young, was in Bermuda until yesterday to address middle and high school students as part of the National Drug Commission?s Multi-Addictions Conference.

The Child Development Programme, in collaboration with the Happy Valley Child Care Centre, hosted a film festival at the Anglican Cathedral Hall. Six videos were shown to help parents with young children.

The Bermuda Youth Library will begin an eight-week programme on Saturday entitled designed to help children start early with books.

The first session is at 9.30 a.m.