millennium kids

Millennium Kids Conference 2002

Millennium Kids is a non-profit, non-government organisation. It is run by young people and was established in response to their demand for a greater say about their environment and their world.

..history

In 1995, eight young Australians from Western Australia won the right to attend the first United Nations International Children's Environmental Conference in the UK. (This all sprang from the 1992 United Nations meeting of world governments in Rio de Janeiro. In Rio it was agreed that governments should listen more to the opinions and concerns of young people.) The children returned to Australia determined to tell their story, only to find little interest in the environmental charter they had helped develop for National Governments around the world.

Undeterred, the four Western Australians met and came up with the concept of introducing an environmental children's conference to be held in Perth. The four children planned the agenda and managed all aspects of preparation.

A Special Kids Agenda Conference: Since 1996 delegates have come from all over Australia and beyond, to participate in a range of environmental experiences and activities at the annual Kids Helping Kids Environmental Conference. Delegates create a series of Youth Challenges on the Environment that become the forthcoming year's agenda. The Challenges are also tabled in the Western Australian parliament.

..Martin Meader and Millennium Kids

Martin has also worked for Millennium Kids (www.millenniumkids.com.au), an Australian children's environmental organisation. In 2003, Millennium Kids commissioned Martin to write a children's theatre piece about greenhouse gas entitled, The Horses Who Saved the World. This play is touring schools in Australia. In July 2003, Martin travelled to Indonesia with Millennium Kids to make Surabaya Dreaming, a television documentary trailer about children and the environment.

For more information on Millennium Kids, visit their website at: www.millenniumkids.com.au

Lauren Chapman-Millennium Kids
President meets David Suzuki at the
'Maturity Matters Conference', Perth 2002

The Horses Who Saved The World