Dear President Obama--: The Concern Worldwide 2009 Writing Competition
- ISBN-10
- 1905785690
- ISBN-13
- 9781905785698
- Category
- Child labor
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Author
- Michael Doorly
Description
While the President of the United States is a busy man, the children of the world have not given up on reaching him. This is why Concern Worldwide, the international humanitarian organization, has launched its second annual essay competition, to write an essay addressed to President Obama on one of the following issues: Child Labor, Climate Change and the Developing World, or World Hunger. This book is a collection of the ten best essays in each of the three age categories. Concern Worldwide is an international humanitarian organization dedicated to reducing suffering and ending extreme poverty.
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