Observance to Focus on Child Health Care
Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman hopes this year’s National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths will draw attention in religious communities to child health care.
“Children are the apple of God’s eye,” said Edelman, who will address a conference next Saturday in Pasadena. “We hope that it will be a catalyst for continuing action.”
“Seeking Shalom: Healthy Children, Healthy Nation” is the theme for this year’s Children’s Sabbaths. The annual observance, from today through Monday, is sponsored by the Children’s Defense Fund, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that addresses children’s issues.
Religious groups--including Protestants, Roman Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus--across the nation are hosting weekend activities to focus on child health care, including special worship services, immunizations and educational programs.
“The idea is to leave no child behind in health care,” Edelman said. “Every child should have a healthy start.”
Those will be the themes of her talk next Saturday at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena. Edelman and her husband Peter, a Georgetown University law professor and former assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are featured speakers at a conference sponsored by the Claremont-based Mobilization for the Human Family.
Marian Edelman also will speak Oct. 26 at the Pasadena Hilton Hotel at a fund-raising dinner for the Coalition for a Non-Violent City.
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