Sunday Stamps #168 theme: of children and for children. Lucky chance I have acquired this International Year Of The Child FDC from 1979 last month at a market in Lisbon, with colourful children's drawings. There were many covers from Portugal and its former colonies, and I really had to exercise some serious abstinence!
UNESCO proclaimed 1979 as the International Year of the Child. The proclamation was signed on January 1, 1979 by United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. A follow-up to the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the proclamation was intended to draw attention to problems that affected children throughout the world, including malnutrition and lack of access to education. Many of these efforts resulted in the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.
Cute cover. How wonderful to browse stamps in Lisbon. Portuguese post use such large envelopes for their FDCs no wonder they have no problem fitting stamps on them. I'm usually trying to restrain myself from getting the complete Portugues/Maderia/Azores triple issues that they are fond of.
ReplyDeleteThese are just wonderful!! A fantastic find.
ReplyDeleteGreat stamps - what a find. I have only seen one stamp from Mozambique before.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't aware of the International Year of the Child. It is interesting to see how all the different countries interpreted it. I just looked up the U.S. version: http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&mode=1&tid=2034931
ReplyDeleteA delightful set. Just right for the them this week. thank you for participating!
ReplyDeleteGreat cover, sounds like an interesting market to browse in.
ReplyDeleteReally Great Cover!
ReplyDeleteNice set. And interesting to see stamps from a less common country.
ReplyDeleteSo nice to see the different and colourful drawings by children, great of the Mozambique post to choose to show the theme this way.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Heleen in loving stamps drawn by children. I have never received a stamp from Mozambique... :(
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