Saturday, February 27, 2010

Spotlight on : Express Your Dreams Essay Winners

We've received some great pictures from Muranga Child Rescue Center in Kenya. Muranga is home to John Ngugi, one of our Express Your Dreams Essay and Art Winners. In addition to his prize from LittleDrops, John was also blessed with several gifts from the home, including a new bicycle. John was quite excited and grateful for his presents and is shown enjoying them with the other children.


More about Express Your Dreams:
Express Your Dreams is an online Essay and Art competition for the orphans LittleDrops support. It is aimed at providing orphans an opportunity to express their dreams and share their view of the world they live in. Our contestants are keeping their dreams big: aspiring to be doctors, pilots, engineers, and world changers. They spoke about issues dear to their heart and their countries. This bold initiative encouraged the public to get involved by rating essays online and further provided them an opportunity to donate to LittleDrops. In our first cycle of Express Your Dreams (February 15th- April 15th, 2009), we had 200 entries from children in 24 orphanages across 6 countries.


The Winners are as follows:

Primary: (Ages 3-5)
Topic: Illustrate your favorite dream using any art medium

Winners:

Secondary: (Ages 6-11)
Topics:
1) Who is your favorite character in a book you read, and why?
2) If you could be anyone in the world, who would you like to grow up to be?

Winners

Post Secondary (Ages 12+)
Topics:
1) Which historical figure is your role model, and what ways do you wish to emulate him/her to make a change in this world?
2) What is your favorite novel, and how has it changed your perspective of the world?
3) What is your biggest passion, and in what ways will it help you shape the world?

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