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Shape the Planet’s Future & Win the Jackpot for Young EnvironmentalistsUnited Nations Environment Programme UNEP’s Children’s Painting Competition and the Children’s Conference in Malaysia Promise to Feed the Young Environmentalist’s Passion and More! UNEP is inviting children all over the world to participate in a wide range of exciting environmental activities in 2006. Beyond the environmental and cultural value of these activities, the Children and Youth programme promises prizes worth more than US$3000 in total and travel to exotic locations to promote the environment. Celebrate 2006 With UNEP’S Prizes for Children’s Paintings This year, seven lucky children will receive a fully sponsored trip to the main World Environment Day celebrations in Algiers, Algeria on 5 June 2006. In addition to the trip, the winners will receive a cash prize of US$ 2,000 (as the global winner) and US$ 1,000 (as one of 6 regional winners). There will also be a wide range of other prizes available for runners-up. The International Children’s Painting Competition on the Environment is organized annually by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Japan-based Foundation for Global Peace and Environment (FGPE) Bayer AG and Nikon Corporation. It has been held since 1990 and has received over 160,000 entries from children in over 100 countries. On its fifteenth anniversary this year, the competition will focus on the theme of Deserts and Desertification. Children - who will be between the age of 6 and 14 years on World Environment Day 2006 ( 5 June 2006) - are being invited to express their hopes and fears about the future of the world's deserts and the issue of desertification in general in this year's International Painting Competition on the Environment. The global competition as well as regional competitions will be organized in cooperation with partners in the regions. Preliminary selection will be done by UNEP Regional Offices and their partners while the final selection will be done by UNEP, the Foundation for Global Peace and Environment (FGPE Japan), Bayer AG and Nikon Corporation... Entries must reach the relevant UNEP regional offices by 20th January 2006 at the latest. Join 250 Children at the UNEP Children’s Conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia in August 2006. Child delegates from the world over will represent their countries at the UNEP International Children’s Conference on the Environment in Putrajaya, Malaysia from 26 to 30 August 2005. All Children are invited to submit their applications. Approximately 250 delegates (10-14 years old) from around the world are expected to participate. The Conference will enable the children learn about the environment through plenary sessions and hands-on workshops and fieldtrips. The children will share their views and concerns about the environment and will prepare individual commitments and a petition to world leaders expressing their concerns and vision. The themes for this year’s conference are: Conservation, Forest and Biodiversity, Healthy Communities and Recycling. Sponsorship may be available for participants (accompanied by a chaperone) from developing countries. Children are encouraged to apply immediately as the deadline for application is 31 January 2006 and only a few places are still available. You can apply online at http://hq.unep.org/Tunza/Children/Events/YouthCon06/tunzaform.asp; Or write to: children.youth@unep.org to get an e-mail copy of the application. |
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