16-year-old Lebanese girl Rome Ayyashi can become the owner of the International Children's Peace Prize

16-year-old girl Rome Ayyashi from Lebanon can receive this year's International Children's Peace Prize. She was nominated by members of the public because they believe that a teenager is worthy of receiving the peace prize, which every year is presented by the Dutch Foundation for Children's Rights KidsRights.

This year the award will be presented in South Africa. Archbishop Cape Town’s Desmond Tutu, a well-known fighter against apartheid and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1984, plans to hand it over, reports TASS.

symbol of the Children's Peace Prize
Desmond tutu

A Lebanese teenage girl willingly teaches painting and art to Syrian children in refugee camps.

She believes that it would be criminal to see children grow up in difficult conditions and do nothing to make their lives better.

Rome honestly admits that she went to refugee camps, inspired by the example of Malala Yusufzai, a Pakistani human rights activist who advocates access to education for women around the world.

Rome has told journalists more than once that adults mistakenly and misunderstood consider children fragile, unable to resist reality. She decided to devote her life to helping children in difficult situations in different parts of the world.

On the path of a human rights activist, the girl began as a child. She lived with her parents in Tanzania, and already there by all means tried to attract public attention. to protect little blacks albinos.

In Tanzania, they still believe that talismans made from bones and body parts of albinos can cure and bring good luck, and therefore children-albinos are attacked, they are even killed in order to take parts of their bodies to talismans. Up to a hundred children die a year.

Rome organized a fundraiser for albino children and ensured that the Tanzanian authorities set up special boarding schools where children could be relatively safe. She regularly visits the guys.

If she gets the peace prize, Rome intends to build an art school for children in Tanzania with the funds received ($ 110,000).

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