"If last year I was honored to appoint your name (to the Pastoral of the Child), I am doing it once again, and this time with renewed intensity, since the "Pastoral da Criança" - an organization that counts on near 155 thousand agents and volunteers from the community, and assists more than one million families and one million and a half poor kids - has only grown and grown. Acting in Brazil for 18 years in behalf of the children and the families, the "Pastoral da Criança " has successfully adapt and expanded its experience in the country and other countries of Africa and Latin America. (...)

          I believe that it is more than time to acknowledge all over the world the merits of this initiative by such a relevant award as the Nobel Peace Prize. An initiative that gathers the efforts of the society to accomplish the most wanted goal by all peoples: the peace. The peace that must be understood and searched for in its broader dimension and which translates into fully promoting and living human dignity by all individuals."