Thursday 7 December 2017

Children's Peace Prize 2017

Children's Peace Prize 2017


A teenage Syrian refugee won a prestigious international prize   for building a school and providing an education to hundreds of children who fled to Lebanon to escape the conflict.

    Al Jounde, a refugee of the Syrian civil war, set up a school together with his family in a Lebanese refugee camp that currently provides 200 children with eduction.

The International Children’s Peace Prize is awarded annually to a child who has made a significant contribution to advocating children's rights and improving the situation of vulnerable children

The first Children's Peace Prize was launched in November 2005 during the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome, an annual meeting of Nobel Peace Prize winners and international organisations such as UNICEF and Amnesty International. 

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