WFP Children’s Design Competition 2015

Dreaming of a world without hunger

The World Food Programme provides school meals to more than 18 million children in 65 countries. Whether it’s a cup of porridge, a cooked meal or take-home snack, they give the most vulnerable households an incentive to send boys and girls to school and pursue their education so one day they may break the cycle of hunger and poverty.

Ethiopia, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Jordan, Ecuador

At the Joy Springs Education Centre in Kibera, Kenya, children receive nourishing school meals.

SHARING A VISION FOR THE FUTURE

Every year WFP invites children who benefit from our school meals programmes to participate in the annual Children’s Design Competition. Thousands of children from 23 countries took part in this year’s contest. Entitled, Zero Hunger: Infinite Possibilities, it asked the artists to imagine a world without hunger.

Children from almost 9,600 schools, supported by WFP’s school meals programme in Bangladesh, participated in this year’s design competition.

BRILLIANT COLOURS CELEBRATE NEW POSSIBILITIES

The competition begins in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Colombia, Ecuador, India

More than 200,000 vulnerable students benefit from school feeding in DRC and meals are provided at over 550 schools.

FROM LUSH GARDENS TO RIVERS FULL OF FISH

Every student has a different vision of a world of plenty — from bountiful harvests and trees laden with fruit, to rivers full of fish. Many of the children dream about becoming doctors, teachers and lawyers one day, but for now they talk about sharing whatever food they have with others and using their designs to depict that.

(Below) Eleven-year old Oumar Karembe from Mali hopes to be a school principal one day. “My drawing represents a hungry person who transforms himself into a bird, and flies away to find food. To end hunger in Mali, we should work the land together!”

Oumar Karembe, 11, Mali

Philippines, Jordan, Algeria

JUDGING THE DESIGNS

Selecting the best artists is no easy task. Every WFP country office chooses the top five designs and sends them to WFP headquarters in Rome for final judging. This year 115 finalists aged from 7 to 14 were selected from an outstanding collection and submitted to a panel which had to choose only 20 winners.

THE WINNERS

For every child it is a thrill to win and it’s an honour for their school. This was the first time that children from India took part in the competition and 11-year-old Sibananda Sethy, from Budhibil UP School, was among the 20 winners.

Each winner receives a cash prize and their school also receives a cash prize to spend on school supplies. The winning designs are then reproduced on WFP merchandise including calendars, greeting cards, desk diaries and coffee mugs.

Phoung Channa from Cambodia wants to be an agronomist. He dreams of seeing his village filled with fruit trees and vegetables

Sibananda Sethy, 11, from India proudly displays his award winning drawing

Zhenya Movsisyan, 9, from Armenia

Winner Samie Joseph Kipimbye, 12, goes to Kashengeneke primary school in Pweto in Katanga.

Eimy Domínguez Robles, 7, from Cuba

Zelalem Tusha with her certificate

Zelalem Tusha, 13, shows the people of Ethiopia working for change. She draws a ray of light around her country to symbolize hope.

Liedson das Neves Tavares Braga, 11, from Sao Tome and Principe

Ruth Elizabeth Márquez Rivas, 12, from Honduras

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