The VI edition of the Mapendo children's drawing prize has already been called. As on previous occasions, the Roger Torné Foundation proposes to children reflect on important aspects for your health. The thematic axis around which the activities of the entity revolve for its 30th anniversary is “the city”, and that is what the kids are asked for.
How would you like your city to be? Your children have to imagine that they could have a “voice” in decisions about urban planning and development, what would they give us?
Well, that is what the prize intends: Stimulate children's imagination to show that their opinion and criteria would be perfectly valid (Why not?) If required. Because, with the exception of some initiatives such as the “Child Friendly Cities” (UNICEF), children's gaze is not taken into account when planning urban environments.
And in front of those who think that children have no capacity, many of us believe that their proposals would turn cities into kinder and healthier places. Children from five to 12 years old can participate in the contest, adjusting to the bases of the call. The deadline for receipt of work ends on November 18, and both winner and finalists will be announced six days later.
Also this year the Fundació Roger Torné has added an incentive: knowing that the family is the most influential social nucleus in children's habits, a exceptional prize of Photography for Fathers and Mothers. This time it is about showing children in urban environments, through images that reflect values such as collaboration, empathy, equality, respect for nature ... stay tuned for the news of the entity (on Facebook or Twitter) because soon they will publish the bases of This special call.
The city arrives after the air, mountains, water, rivers and trees, all of them This year's theme refers to the residence habitat of millions of children, so how can they not meet him? How can they not know accordingly what they would like to change, improve or maintain?
Encourage them to participate and trust them.
