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UN international art competition for children: We Can End Poverty (26/04/07)

Good morning everyone:

Here's a message about an art competition from the UN that might be of interest to you or your colleagues. The deadline for submission is 30th June - please reply directly to Renata Kaczmarska (contact details below).

Best wishes, Sandra Hails, Ramsar Secretariat
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ART COMPETITION FOR CHILDREN TO DESIGN A UN STAMP ON THE THEME

"WE CAN END POVERTY"

Dear NGO Representative,

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) will mark the 2007 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, 17 October, with an art competition for children to design a UN stamp on the theme “We can end poverty’. DESA would like to request the nongovernmental organizations around the world to spread the word about the art competition.

The competition is being organized by DESA in collaboration with the Department of Public Information and the UN Postal Administration, and aims at raising awareness about poverty and inequality in the world, in particular among children.

The best designs will be presented during the commemoration of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October 2007, and will be issued as United Nations stamps in 2008.

We hope that the NGOs can advertise the art competition among their respective constituencies and encourage educators to teach children about the existence of poverty around the world and the ways we can all fight against it. Of course, you are free to decide whether to participate or not in this initiative.

The flyers containing the rules of the competition in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic language can be downloaded from the following website: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/poverty/poverty.htm. In this web site you can also learn more about the poverty issues at the UN. It has also been posted on the Cyberschoolbus website http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus . We encourage advertising the competition in schools.

Please feel free to contact me for any additional information,

With best regards,

Renata Kaczmarska
Associate Social Affairs Officer Division for Social Policy and Development
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
2 UN Plaza DC2-1360
New York, NY 10017
Tel: (212) 963-4596
Fax: (212) 963-0111
kaczmarska@un.org

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Sandra Hails, CEPA Programme Officer
Ramsar Convention Secretariat
Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 999 0176; Fax: +41 22 999 0169
E-mail: hails@ramsar.org
Web Site: http://ramsar.org
CEPA mini-Web site: http://ramsar.org/outreach_index.htm

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