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	Around the World A television series and teaching materials about a world full of strong children fighting for their rights and sharing dreams about a good life. The children have received help to help themselves via Save the Children Denmark's projects. Carlos is behind a demonstration for better conditions for children in Guatemala. In the meantime, Julius is kicking loose as a stand-up comedian on a stage in Copenhagen. Even though there is a world apart between the lives of Carlos and Julius, they share at least one thing in common – the right to express their own opinion. This is the message in one of the eight programs making up the television series Around the World, which was televised on a Danish television network, TV2, in the spring of 2003. This was a non-traditional way of providing young viewers with the insight that the UN children's rights hold good for all children, regardless of whether they live in the northern or southern hemispheres. Teaching materials consisting of a textbook for pupils, a teaching guide, a website and a cd-rom with computer games about children's rights have been produced to accompany the eight television programs, as well as texts, photophraphs and a song entitled "Children are right/have rights" (Børn har ret) by a Danish pop singer, Maria Montell. The teaching materials are entitled "Children and rights – the hunt for a good life." Like the television series, the television series is about the children from Guatemala, Bangladesh, Kirgisistan, Uganda, Ethiopia and Denmark. They are children with special abilities who are often fighting for the rights of other children. The foreign children who are presented have received help to help themselves in the form of schooling, knowledge about the rights of children etc. in Save the Children Denmark's projects. Children are not portrayed as victims Viewers of the eight television programs are guided through the world by the 24-year-old host Jacob Riising (formerly host of a Danish children's radio program). Jacob meets the children at their own level, engaging them in serious conversations about child labour, handicaps etc., as well as using humour and irony to touch upon the lighter sides of life among children at home and abroad. Save the Children Denmark is using Around the World to demonstrate that children in the impoverished part of the world have abilities, ambitions and dreams, just like Danish children. The children from abroad are not regarded as victims, but as active, dynamic people who are trying to create a better future for themselves. Save the Children Denmark hopes that the teaching materials will provide school pupils with the awareness that rights must be fought for and protected, and that children in developing countries are engaged in a bitter fight to have their rights respected. These materials have been developed in co-operation between Save the Children Denmark, Easy Film and Alinea, and it has been produced with support from Danida and Lego Company. Please see more at www.redbarnet.dk/aroundtheworld.