Friday, January 11, 2008

Kids: THINK and then write about tolerance

Did you know that there is a UN agency that helps the mail you send from one country get to its destination in another?

The Universal Postal Union (UPU) is committed to promoting communication among people by helping national postal services be better at delivering the mail AND creating mechanisms for the free flow of international mail.

Each year the UPU sponsors a letter writting contest for children around the world. The idea is to get children to think about an imporant issue facing our world and practice their writen communication skills. This year the contest asks children to write a letter explaining why the world needs tolerance.

Check out the contest website!

Email the US Postal Service to encourage them to participate (or if they do, to say so somewhere on their website)