Child Rights Hero Spés Nihangaza, Burundi. World’s Children’s Prize

Описание: When Spès Nihangaza and her sister Caritas were growing up they were taught to help the sick and the weak. Now, she has worked for over 25 years to help Burundi’s orphaned and most vulnerable children.

One in five children, around 700,000, in Burundi, the world’s third poorest country,are orphans. Four in ten children were never registered at birth, which makes it difficult for them to access health care, go to school or inherit property. When, in 1992, Spés and her sister began looking after children who had lost their parents to AIDS, they set up the organization FVS, which is now called FVS Amade. The mass murder during the long civil war that started in 1993 led to many children being orphaned. Spès and FVS have worked to find these children new homes. Spès received the World’s Children’s Honorary Award 2019.

The World’s Children’s Prize (WCP) Program is the world’s largest annual program educating and empowering children to become humane changemakers who stand up for the equal value of all people, the rights of the child, human rights, democracy, and sustainable development. Patrons of the World’s Children’s Prize include H.M. Queen Silvia of Sweden, Malala Yousafzai, the late Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, Xanana Gusmão, Desmond Tutu and Sweden’s Prime Minister. Since the year 2000, close to 50 million children have participated in the annual WCP Program. Learn more at http://worldschildrensprize.org