Svenska PostkodStiftelsen

World’s Children's Prize

  • Location: International
  • Period: 2009-2010
  • Organization: The World’s Children's Prize Foundation
  • Contribution: The Swedish Post Code Lottery
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Children all over the world vote to nominate a children's rights hero

Within this project, children all over the world will learn about their rights and how to strengthen their self-esteem. All children also participate in the annual global vote were they vote for their child rights hero. The winner 2008 was a woman from Cambodia, who herself had been a sex slave as a child, and now works to protect as many children as possible in Cambodia from being forced into sex slavery. The winner 2009 was South Africas former president, Nelson Mandela.

See a movie about The World's Children's Prize here.

Read more at www.worldschildrensprize.org/.