Ask students to infer what the situation in Colombia must be like based on these differences. I dream that one day I will wake up and my father will go to work and I will not have the fear that he will be shot. This is the dream I am trying to build, that we are all trying to build. 17 Children have a special gift for convincing people about the truth of what is happening. People never used to care about the war unless they were directly affected by it, but when children talk about pain and sorrow we make adults feel the pain as if it were their own.
Children are the seeds of the new Colombia.
We are the seeds that will stop the war. The adults are making this war but the young generation are the main victims. Young people are the ones who must make the adults see that they have to stop. In other countries, if someone is murdered there is an outcry, but in Colombia a whole family can be killed, even the children, and nothing happens. Nobody does anything.