The Commissioner for Children, Ms. Carmen Zammit, visited 3 to 5 year olds at St. Elmo Primary C in Valletta, as part of her work to increase awareness of children's rights amongst children of all ages. The aim of the visit was to re-launch a Children's Rights game, which will continue to be distributed by the Office of the Commissioner for Children in the coming months.

This game was initially launched in 2005 by the previous Commissioner for Children Mrs. Sonia Camilleri, and was made possible through the sponsorship of Plasmon. This project has again been made possible by Plasmon, who also believe in the importance of a society which recognizes the rights of children. 'Guginu l-Iljuncinu', the new official mascot of the Commissioner for Children, was also present at the launch, visiting classrooms with the Commissioner and communicating with the children present.

The game, which is a floor puzzle, is primarily aimed at 3-5 year olds and consists of 12 different flash cards showing sad characters when rights are not respected, and the same characters clearly happy when their rights are respected. The children have to pair the flash cards. The game is particularly useful for teachers and parents as an educational resource, in teaching human rights education to children of a very young age. Each flash card includes the particular children's right in both Maltese and English.

The six rights depicted in the floor puzzle are:

I have a right to have fun with my friends (Ghandi dritt li nifrah ma shabi)

I have a right to learn (Ghandi dritt nitghallem)

I have a right to play (Ghandi dritt nilghab)

I have a right to be cared for (Ghandi dritt li jiehdu hsiebi)

I have a right to a clean environment (Ghandi dritt li nghix f'arja nadifa)

I have rights like everybody else (Ghandi dritt bhal kullhadd)

This floor puzzle was designed by Analiza Vella, who is a primary teacher by profession and who studied art at the University of Malta. Stef Camilleri, who is a trained Montessouri teacher, was consulted at the planning stage on aspects of pedagogy.