UN General Assembly
2009

number of children, but we prefer that problem to not having children in school. This means that there is an urgent need to build more than 14,400 classrooms over the next 14 months, but we prefer that to having children on the streets or working. The international cooperation that we have received in this effort is important, and we would like to recognize here the support of the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, which have helped us with our efforts to build social cohesion and to support the indigenous people who constitute our population. I wish to sincerely express our total conviction with regard to the change that we all must make. It is a change of attitude, a change of will, as President Lula said yesterday. It is important that we see the birth of this new international order, this new order of justice and equity. The drought in Guatemala exacerbated abject poverty, but a solution to drought will not resolve the