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World Children’s Award 2015
At their world festival, the children presented the Olympiad winners presented the “World Children’s
“World Children’s Award 2015” to The Swatch Group Award 2015” to the educators they admired the most:
(Switzerland) and Akira Foundation (Japan). Ms. Shona Hammond Boys (founder of the New
Zealand Children’s Art House Foundation), Mr. Fato
Frank Furlan, President of the Swatch Group (USA), Wheremongar (founder, ChildArt Liberia), and Mr.
accepted the award for The Swatch Group. “We Ssembiro Mike (ICAF representative in Uganda).
are honored to have received The World’s Children’s
Award 2015 as a tribute to companies and organiza- The WCF logo and the World Children’s Award
tions that recognize creativity and promotion of art The WCF logo resulted from a design competition
for art’s sake by children,” he said. among 19 countries at the Cannes Lions in Cannes,
France. The winner was a German team from Kolle
Hirofumi Yokoi, President, Akira Foundation, trav- Rebbe in Hamburg. The award itself was designed by
elled from Tokyo to accept the award. “We are truly Sergey Eylanbekov, who is the sculptor for the Dwight
honored and humbled to accept the World Children’s D. Eisenhower Memorial to be built in Washington,
Award,” he said. D.C. under the creative direction of Frank Gehry.
At the World Children’s Awards Banquet, the Arts
On the left,
Ms. Shona Hammond Boys.
On the right, Mr. Furlan, on the right, Mr. Yokoi, kneeling down on the floor.
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