Americas : Dr. Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd, Regional
Health Education Advisor for the Pan American Health Organization,
has disseminated information on the contest to all the
school health focal points in the Americas. |
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Argentina : Marisa Labayen, a teacher, asked for information
in Spanish on the contest so that her students can take
part in it. |
Argentina
: Maria Silvina Rodriguez, art teacher in a public school,
is interessed in participating in the contest with her
pupils. Because of the actual economic situation in the
country it would be impossible for them or for the school
to pay the price to send the art works by post. She asked
us if there were another way to send them, at a lower
cost.
In such a case, we suggest to send the drawings and the
registration form to the national commission of the concerned
country, specifying that it has to be transmited to our
address.
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Argentina
: Flavia Giustino, representative of a group of
educators living in Buenos Aires asked information about
other participants in Argentina, in order to contact
them.
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Argentina
: Mabel Nora Coppini, director of a school in Buenos Aires,
mentioned their intention to participate in the contest. |
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Australia
: Cora Jafari requested information about the contest.
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Bangladesh
: Minarul Islam wanted to verify that there was no pre-registration
to send drawings. Indeed, participants should just send
the art works along with the completed registration form.
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Bangladesh
: Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury, from Dhaka, expressed the
desire of his daughter Sharika to join the contest and
asked a registration number for participating.
As we explained that the objective of the contest is to
realize a collective work and not to compete alone, M.Chowdhury
decided to inform Sharika's art teacher at "Studio of
Creative Art", Dhaka, and ask him to organize a team.
As the deadline has been extended to the end of September
2002, "it's an adequate time to achieve some good
works by them", he said. |
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Belarus
: the gymnasium (school) n°10 of the city of Minsk
is ready to participate in the contest. |
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Brazil
: Teachers of the Elvira Brandão School were wondering
what size for the drawings.
Each drawing has to be in a A3 paper, and the final
work will be componed of 6 A3 sheets... (and not 6 drawings
joined on a same A3 sheet). |
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Brazil
: The Association of Assistance to Minors of Olinda, Pernanbuco,
sent its first pictures from children participating in
the contest. Eliane Rangel, Coordinator for this area
reports: "The children who drew these are from the super-needy
communities of Olinda; if they were not at the AMO school
they would all be in the street. They are children from
a neighbourhood with a highly violent atmosphere and are
considered to be at high risk. Thanks to Living Values,
they have become more aware of peace and started changing
acts of violence into acts of peace. These drawings are
from their own creativity, because they believe in Peace.
The children are now making a conscientious effort to
work with their families." A selection of the drawings
can be viewed on the LVEP
website. |
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Brazil : UNESCO's
Office in Brasilia disseminated information
about the contest in Brazil through various communication
means and established a link to our pages on its web
site.
A few weeks later, Alessandra
Schneider informed us that the Ministry of Education
decided to take part in the contest, which seemed to
them highly interesting and timely. They expect an active
participation of schools and teachers...
They also translated the contest presentation materials
into
Portugese.
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Brazil
: Juliana Campos, teacher at the "Colegio Magno"
of São Paulo, asked for information about the
contest, before launching the work with her pupils.
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Canada
: Alison Lipp, a teacher from Mississauga, Ontario,
and her class are interested in entering the contest.
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Chile : Edith Soto, from
a missionary group asked for more information about the
contest and bless us for such a nice work (sic...) |
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Chile
: María Elena Binimelis Espinoza works with World
Vision, which supports spaces for formal education,
libraries and centers for learning. She wanted to know
if the contest will take place with schools only, or
if it will be possible to participate for such spaces
and centers.
Of course yes ! The contest "Draw me Peace"
is aimed at every group of child of 4 to 7 years, as
far as they are in situation to realise a collective
work !
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Colombia
: the Network of Ludotecas in Cundinamarca, composed
by 65 ludotecas, has worked from the month of April
in the contest. They have around 300 drawings to participate
in the contest that come from 60 municipalities of low
resources. But the postmail would be too expensive.
They wanted to know if it would be possible to scan
the drawings and to send them via email.
It would be better to send the art works themselves.
Like for their colleagues from Argentina, we suggested
them to send or to deposit the drawings (with their
inscription forms) to the UNESCO's national commission,
charging them to transmit us.
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Democratic
Republic of Congo : Véronique
Mapey, coordinator of the Children’s League for Peace
in Africa (LIEPA), sent us the drawings made by Salodie,
Aristote and Billy. |
Denmark : Anne Alanin, of the Danish IT-Centre for
Research and Education under the Ministry of Education,
has announced the " Draw me Peace " contest on the EMU
website (an electronic meetingplace for the educatinal
institutions) |
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Denmark : Rikke Smed Poulsen, a teacher, has informed
us that her students would participate in the contest.
She wanted to know if her class would be disqualified
because two of the students were 8 years old.
Of course not!!! They are most welcome to take part in
the contest! |
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Dominican Republic : Josefina
Fernández de García has sent us the drawings of pupils
from the "Ergos" school in Santo Domingo. |
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El
Salvador / Canada : Teresa Chávez Suárez, Director
of the Children's Art Institute in Toronto asked us about
the final date for sending the children's art work. She
was on her way to "San Vincent of Paul Orphanage" in San
Salvador City, to make several workshops with the orphan
children victims of the devastating earthquake in El Salvador
and was very interested in submitting their work to UNESCO.
She will finally have till the end of september to work
quietly with this young Salvadorians and to send us their
interesting productions. |
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El
Salvador : Felipa Ortez and the street educators of
"Calle de Fe y Alegría", in La Chacra zone,
in San Salvador, asked us information in order to participate
to the contest. |
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Finland :Titta Smedberg
forwarded the call for taking part to the painting contest
in her region, included to art schools, which are welcome. |
France :
- Claude Marcel, manager of the pedagogical website of
the Académie
de Grenoble announces the contest;
- Yannick Blin, webmaster of the Académie
d'Orléans-Tours, has put information about the
contest online on their website. |
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France : the NGO "La Voix de l'Enfant" disseminated
information on the contest to the members of its federation. |
France : Marie-Hélène Teytaud, preschool teacher in
Niort, asks for the documents and registration forms for
the contest. |
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France : Mrs Oriol Vaudable, teacher in Saint Médard
en Forez, asked us for materials about the contest in
order to participate with her class. |
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France : Ms Pawlak, head of the Centre de Loisirs
(day camp) of Planfoy in the Loire department, asked for
a registration file for the contest. During the Spring
school holidays, she will have the children attending
the day camp work on the topic of peoples and customs
of the world, and become more aware on the issues of lack
of respect and violence between people. |
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France : Sylvie Relave,
special education teacher at the "Grande Fontaine" school
of Saint-Paul en Jarez (Loire), requested a set of registration
forms to have her class of autistic children take part
in the contest. . |
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France
: Monique Pozzi, President of "Savoirs et Partages",
in Saint-Zacharie (83), informed us that her association
is willing to participate in the contest, in partnership
with a local school. |
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France
: Marik Cain, mother and webmaster, announced the contest
in the Parent's pages of her information and leasure
website dedicated to the Provence - Alpes - Côte
d'Azur region, mag-momes.
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France
- Nouvelle-Calédonie : The teacher and CP
(first grade) children of the catholic primary school
of Nathalo Lifou tell us they are happy to take part
in the contest. Although we live in a quiet island,
we cannot stay indifferent and not react to the injustices
and abuses many people in the world face. This is why
we want to take part in this contest to say STOP to
war, racism and poverty. It is also a way for us to
show our solidarity with people who suffer.
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France
: Annie Léculée, Chairman of "Feu vert", a
Fondation that coordinates teams of specialized social
workers in "difficult" poor neighbourhoods
of Paris, informed us of her her team of educators desire
to have the children they work whith take part in the
contest.
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Guatemala : Carlos Gerardo
Salazar, teacher, wants information so that his students
can participate in the contest. |
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Hungary : Sophie Fried, Living Values Educational
Program coordinator in Hungary, has translated the contest
documents into Hungarian, and is disseminating information
on it through her own networks. |
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India
: Christelle Guerne, who is currently doing some research
on the subscastes of the Nilgiris (South India), has spoken
about the contest to several teachers there. They are
most interested in taking part in the contest. |
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Indonesia : Cecilia Barbieri, from the UNESCO office
of Jakarta, is sending out the information on the contest
to all their networks in the cluster countries (Indonesia,
Philippines, Malaysia and East Timor). |
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Indonesia : Hasnah Gasim, National ASP-net Coordinator
for Indonesia, requested additional information on the
contest. |
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Jamaica
: the UNESCO office for the Caribbean (Kingston) supports
this initiative and will encourage teachers and children
in the region to participate.
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Nueva Zelanda : Elena Simonov,
una madre argentina viviendo en Nueva Zelanda, encontró
información sobre el concurso en internet, en una
pagina de Argentina. Ella y su marido, ruso, sacaron copias
de los documentos de presentación del concurso
y las entregaron a las maestras y al director de la escuela
de su hijo mayor, en una reunion de padres. Esperán
que la escuela se decida a participar y van entregar una
copia al jardin de infantes que concurrio su hijo el año
pasado. |
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Pakistan : Sadaf Sultana
wanted to know if her three children could as a team participate
under her supervision as their school was now closed for
summer vacations.As the objective is to realize a collective
work, three children seems to be a very small group. So,
we suggested that she get a few of her children's friends
to join them in doing this.
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Pakistan
: Ingeborg Breines & Farhat Gul (UNESCO - Pakistan) are
busy trying to get Pakistan actively take part in the
contest, organizing an inter-agency cooperation on this
initiative. They realised a translation into Urdu of the
contest documents for wider dissemination among schools
in Pakistan. |
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Paraguay
: Eva Quevedo de Bajac, director of the Educativ Center
"Los Laureles" in Asuncion, asked us for precisions
about the contest's rules, before informing other associated
schools of Paraguay. |
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Portugal : The teams
of the portuguese web sites www.educacao.te.pt
(for teachers, students or parents) and www.junior.te.pt
(intended for younger audiences) decided to announce our
initiative, on the "Teacher's Lounge" section of the site
www.educacao.te.pt, and to its Newsletter subscribers,
and on the News section of the site www.junior.te.pt,
and using banners on both their web sites ... They hope
that the way they've chosen to announce the contest meets
with our approval. Of course yes ! |
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Russia
: Alexandra Balukova, from Art School, asked us what was
the deadline to send drawings. The deadline was the end
of June 2002... But, in order to let participants time
to be informes and to work quietly with their pupils,
we postponed this deadline to the end of September 2002. |
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Russia
: Nikitasenko Svetlana N., associate director of "gimnasium
6" (school) of Perm, informed us that his school
will participate. |
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Singapore
: Ms Manjula Govin, preschool teacher will get her class
of 40 students to participate in the Contest. She will
make this competion as an event for the June school holiday
programme. |
South
Africa : Zanele Ntantiso, a child of Kraaifontein,
expressed his desire to get involved. He wrote : "I
want to make people see, infact our parents, that we,
as children, can do anything without being instructed,
things that will make them proud of us. If I were to be
given chance I would draw a picture that explain our feelings
as childrens and to show exactly, tell people who we are.
Our father, uncles, brothers take us for granted they
don't care about us, they must stop to abuse us, they
must know that we do have feelings too." |
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Spain : The Don Bosco
University Centre has sent information about the contest
to 40 Salesian University Institutions worldwide, so they
will let other schools related to them know about it.
It has also informed its students, who can take advantage
of their practical placements to let their respective
schools know.
The contest is presented on the Don
Bosco University Centre's website
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Spain : The
contest is announced and presented on the website of the
World Association of Early Childhood Educators (Waece).
Waece has sent a special newsbulletin to its 13,500 suscribers
and edited a special brochure to be sent to all of the
schools in Spain.
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Spain : Eduardo Reyes, Programmes Coordinator, WAECE,
has told us that Oxford University Press Spain had liked
the idea of the contest and was telling Oxford University
Press Britain about it. |
Spain :
The Spanish magazine "Escuela Infantil en Acción" has
agreed to support the art contest with a special edition
in April 2002. It plans to include articles on peace education,
information about the contest and an interview of Bernard
Combes, of UNESCO's early childhood section.
They will also include a short feature in their newspaper
"Magisterio español". |
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United Kingdom : Information on the contest was
shared among the members of Save the Children UK.
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USA : Renford Reese,
a political science professor and director/founder of
the Colorful
Flags Program in Los Angeles, described
"Draw me Peace" as an "absolutely" superb concept and
project. He decided to help us spread the word and is
linking our website to his. |
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USA : Donna Clary Williams, freelance journalist,
offered to mention the contest in the articles and news
briefs she publishes in various US publications for parents |
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Zambia
: UNESCO's national commission in Zambia requested many
copies of the materials presenting the contest to circulate
them to schools. |
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On
the web - Primera Escuela / First School : The website
"Primera
Escuela / First School"
features the "Draw me Peace" contest right on their
main menu. |
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On
the web - European Schoolnet
: Leonor Barroso, member of Virtual School - Special Needs
Education Department, an Europeam Schoolnet project, decided
to promote the contest on their
webpages. She assumed that we'll be glad with
this... We are !
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On
the web - Magic Zelius :
- Pascale Legout, responsible for partnerships, has announced
the contest in a newsbrief on the zelius.com
website
- Virginie Langlois , editor, does the same on the magicmaman.com
website. |
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On the web - Vivendi Universal
: Sandrine ANDREWS editor of the pages for parents on
the education.com
site, congratulates us on "this beautiful initiative
", talks about it in her news section, and passes on the
information to her German and British teams. In May, she
plans to make a link to the "Early Childhood and Family
Education " website to show the drawings selected for
a possible prize. |
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On the web - UNESCO : the contest is announced on
the "Culture
of Peace" website. |
