World Children’s Day today

City Desk  :
With commencement of Children Rights Week, the World Children’s Day-2023 will be observed in the country today.

Bangladesh celebrates the World Children’s Day every year on the first Monday of October, reports BSS.

At the same time, the Children Rights Week will be observed from October 2 to 8.

The theme of this year’s day is ‘Investing in our future means investing in our children’.

President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today greeted the children on the occasion of the World Children’s Day and Children Right Week-2023, saying that today’s children will lead to build developed- prosperous ‘Smart Bangladesh’ in 2041.

The President, in his message, said children are the backbone of building a nation as well as the architect of establishing a beautiful future so there is no alternative to ensuring health, nutrition, education, safety and healthy recreation for the mental and cultural development of children.

“If today’s children grow up with knowledge and progressive thinking, we will have a beautiful and peaceful world in the days to come,” the head of the state added.

In her message, the Prime Minister said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formulated the ‘Children Act’ in the country in 1974 in order to ensure children’s rights.