"Roping Hope for Children" project

The "Roping Hope for Children" project is a campaign to raise awareness on the right of all children to quality education, which was run from May to November 2008 by Enfants du Monde. Hundreds of pupils in Switzerland, as well as from children from our projects in countries of the South made pieces of string with the material of their choice and attached a message in response to the question "in your opinion, what makes a good school?".

On the International Day of the Child, held on 20th November 2008, a long, multi-coloured rope at least 4 km long, made up of all those pieces of string, was displayed temporarily in Geneva in a public location, to allow our organisation's commitment to quality education for all the world's children, to be all the more visible to the greatest possible number of people.

The different kinds of thread, yarn or string, as well as the various techniques used to make them, will reflect the participation of children from different countries and cultures. The long "rope" made up of those pieces of string thus symbolise the link between the children of the North and the South, the respect for diversity and the equal rights of all children to quality education.

First public presentation of our "Roping Hope for Children" project