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 Mrs. Inderjit
Khurana, Secretary of Ruchika Social Service Organisation, was
awarded the World Children’s Honourary Award, one of the ‘The Worlds
Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC)-2007’, on April
16, 2007.
The prize, otherwise known as ‘Children’s Nobel Prize’, was received by Mrs. Khurana from HM Queen Silva of Sweden. |
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She was one of the three finalists who have contributed to achieve the rights of underprivileged children. A sum of $35,000, equal to Rs.15,00,000/- was given to Mrs. Khurana as the prize money, which she has committed to the cause of marginalized children. |
Inderjit Khurana, joined on stage by Rameswari Prasad Dwivedy and Bijay Kumar, received the World’s Children’s Honorary Award from HM Queen Silvia. |
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WCPRC founded by the Swedish organization Children’s World, is a Swedish National Millennium Project. It empowers children and young people all over the world so that they can make their voices heard and demand respect for their rights in accordance with the UN Child Convention. The WCPRC has quickly grown into the world’s largest annual educational initiative for children on rights and democracy. As part of this process, the children's award has become the world’s most respected prize for outstanding contributions to the rights of the child. That makes this award closer to heart, because it shows that all the work that has been done over the past 22 years by RSSO, has been appreciated and well received by those for whom it is meant – the children. Eleven million students at 20,000 schools in 82 countries participate in the WCPRC. It is supported by 300 organizations all over the world and also collaborates with many Departments of Education and youth media projects worldwide. To know more about the prize magazine, please visit: www.childrensworld.org
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