Cameroon
"My
dream for the future would be to have a happy home, to be
a translator, to succeed in whatever I may do and that God
should be my helper."
Burundi
"I
want to ask the president why he can't do something for
street children in this country who have nothing? Can't
he build a home for them where they can have a good life,
where they are taken care of and where they could be educated
and get a job?"
"I
want to be a doctor and a musician. I could use music to
entertain my patients because I see that in hospitals there
is no entertainment."
Kenya
"I
want to be a teacher when I grow up so that I can help children
to read. It is their right to be educated."
"I
would like to be a policeman, so that I can kill all the
bad armed robbers. If I don't kill them they will kill me."
Rwanda
"I would like to help people, to give them water and
electricity because we haven't got any of these. As for
children, I would give them books and pens for nothing,
all school stationery."
"I
live in a refugee camp in Kenya. You can't compare my life
here to living in my home country Somalia. I will never
go back home until there's peace there because I can't continue
my education in Somalia."
Jordan
"I dream that children can live their childhood. This
is my only dream, that all of us live our childhood and
that we are not forced to do anything we don't want to do,
not forced to work."
"I
think every child's dream is to live in peace. We don't
want anything to do with grown ups' problems and conflicts."
Lebanon
"I
don't want children to feel lonely and upset."
Algeria
"My dream for the future is to become a doctor. I wish
Algeria was like other countries: everyone would have a
computer, everyone would have a car, there wouldn't be so
many poor people. Here there are many booby-trapped cars,
so when you enter your car and turn the ignition key, you
wonder if it will explode."
