Young and innocent

Updated: 2012-06-03 08:03

(China Daily)

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Appreciate the beautiful faces of children on this page as China Daily Sunday edition remembers them in a very special way.

China, like many other countries, celebrated International Children's Day on June 1, which was a holiday for school children. Various activities were held across the country ranging from toy fairs to drawing contests and camping. The occasion is celebrated on various days in different countries. It is observed not only as a day of celebrations, but also as a day devoted to promoting the welfare of children throughout the world. Even in the most desperate corners, people have shown astonishing determination and nurtured high aspirations for children.

China Daily

Young and innocent

A woman from the Turkana tribe carries a baby on her back at the Lake Turkana Festival in Loiyangalani, Northern Kenya. Carl De Souza / Agence France-Presse

Young and innocent

A boy drinks from a water tap in a 'new town' in Koidu, which suffered some of the worst ravages of Sierra Leone's war in the 1990s. Issouf Sanogo / Agence France-Presse

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