ADDIS ABABA: The International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) Global Region 2 (Regional Director Seoyeon Lee) announced on Thursday that it held the 6th International Loving Peace Art Competition at Sunnyside Secondary School in Ethiopia on the 22nd.
The International Loving Peace Art Competition provides children and youth with the opportunity to imagine and draw a world of peace every year as part of spreading the culture of peace. The drawing contest is held every year in major cities around the world to spread the need for an end to global war, the value of a culture of peace, and to deliver a message of peace.
Sunnyside Secondary School, which has 368 students, selected about 40 middle and high school students to participate in the competition. Participants drew pictures with the theme ‘Sending a heart of peace to friends suffering from war’.
In addition, an exhibition of the finalists of the 5th International Loving Peace Art Competition was held.
The principal of Sunnyside Secondary School said, “It is truly an honour for our youth to have the opportunity to participate in an international competition with the theme of peace,” adding, “We will hold this drawing competition together with IWPG every year.”
One participant said, “It breaks my heart to think that I can’t play as much as I want or go to school because of the war,” and added, “I hope that our hearts of peace will spread widely and that all wars in the world will disappear as soon as possible.” .
Preliminary works go through strict screening to advance to the finals. The final awards ceremony is scheduled to be held in November.
IWPG is a special consultative status NGO of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and a women’s peace organisation registered with the Department of Global Communications (DGC). IWPG’s vision is to protect precious lives from war and pass on peace as a legacy to future generations with a motherly heart. It is headquartered in Seoul, Korea, and actively works in solidarity with about 110 branches and 660 partner organisations around the world.
