The ANC has built a caring culture based on the principles of Batho Pele over the past 25 years. As tata Mandela once said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children". That is why one of the first international agreements we signed was the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in June 1994. In so doing, we established the principle that our children must have the first call on our resources.