New York, August 12 2011 12:10PM
Two teenagers’powerful pleas from the illusory standpoint of a tree tosave the world’s forests beat out two million competitorsto wingold medals currently in the United Nations InternationalLetter-Writing Competition for Young People.
CharléeGittens from Barbados, writingas a great ash in Guyana’s Windsor Forest, and 13-year-oldWang Sa from China, in the voiceof an attentive tiny tree ‘prepared to caring forhumanity,’ were spoken victors in the 40th UN UniversalPostal Union (UPU)competition, that this year evident the International Yearof Forests by asking young people to suppose themselves asa!
tree wri
ting a e-mail to someone to notify whyit is critical to safeguard forests.
“Despite livingin an increasingly digital age, the more than 2 millionoften hand-written letters the contest generatesworldwide annually shows the extensive worth of the writtenword,” UPU executive broad Eduard Dayan mentioned of thecompetition, that is open to youngsters up to the age of15.
“The UPU is gratified that its 40-year-oldcompetition continues to encourage an high regard is to artof letter-writing, enlivening young people to demonstrate theirdeepest and many judicious thoughts on topics that concernus all, whilst training them the significance of properaddressing.”
The international jury called theBarbadian access “a powerful, personal and touchingcomposition traffic with the situation in a really universal manner.Comparing the predicament of forests to a few of the world’sgreat crises sends a burly summary about the significance ofprotecting forests.”
The jury called China’s entry“a good crafted and dainty combination Using a parableof two villages to plunge into the theme, the bard does anexcellent work of bringing readers into the story in a waythat people are able to describe to it.” This is the fir! sttime t hat Barbados and the fifth time that China has won topprize.
Grenada’s Jonathan Andrew, 14, won thesilver award for a “well rubbed and educational”presentation of the benefits of forests, whilst Botswana’sCharlene Tiagae, 15, was awarded bronze for “a delightfuland personal combination explaining the benefits of the manyplants and trees found in forests and because they must be beprotected. The bard brings in poetic references about howsome cultures understand or rely on plants and trees.”
The jury consisted of January McAlpine, executive of the UNForum on Forests Secretariat; Jean-Paul Paddack, executive ofthe network initiatives encouragement unit; Daniel Shaw, head ofcommunication at the International Union for theConservation of Nature (IUCN), and Jean-François Thivet,philately consultant at the UPU International Bureau and apassionate gatherer of reforest stamps
Next year’stheme,marking the London 2012 Olympics, asks youngsters to“write a e-mail to an contestant or sports figure you admireto notify what the Olympic Games meant to you.”
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