Aim:

1. To celebrate the International Year of Older Persons

2. To focus on the warmth of relationships between children and their grandfriends.

3. To show children and their grandfriends enjoying the natural wonders of the world together

4. To share cultural heritage with grandfriends - music, traditional costumes, food, artefacts, language, dance, drama, worship

5. To provide an opportunity to any grandfriend who would like to publish a short message of wisdom or hope for the children who are inheriting this world. Spoken or written messages are welcome.

1. Primarily photographs - no family names, some given names

2. Children's drawings, drawings by grandfriends.

3. Minimum text - in more than one language wherever possible.
Just enough language to explain the picture if words are needed.
English translation if words are used.

4. Some sounds - sounds of nature with pictures, music, voices in various languages (both old and young but especially the voices of the older people), with written words of the people and English words to translate what is said.

I am a grandmother myself and greatly value the relationship I have with my grandchildren. This project aims to highlight the importance of grandfriends to children all around the world. A grandfriend can be any older person who is special in the life of a child and shares with that child the joy and wonder of life in this beautiful world.