COLUMBUS, Ohio (Aug. 19, 2002)
Muhammad Ali, the honorary
chair of the World of Children Awards, today announced six
honorees for the 2002 awards.
In its fifth
anniversary year, the program has expanded to include two separate
$100,000 awards.
Founding sponsor
Kellogg Company (NYSE:K) will present the Kellogg's Child
Development Award recognizing an individual who brightens
children's futures by improving their opportunities to learn and
grow.
Cardinal
Health, Inc., (NYSE: CAH) will present the
Cardinal Health Children’s Care Award recognizing an
individual who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the
health and well-being of children. The World of Children Awards
program was established in 1998 to give a voice to children by
recognizing and rewarding those who dedicate their lives to
serving them.
Potential honorees were nominated by colleagues and peers. The
six honorees were selected in recognition of their extraordinary
contributions to children. Collectively, they have served millions
of sick, abandoned and physically challenged children around the
globe.
The winner, to be announced during an
awards ceremony on November 16
in Columbus, Ohio, will be chosen by a 20-member
International Advisory Council
comprised of recognized leaders in their respective fields. At the
ceremony, the two winners will each receive a $100,000 stipend.
Selected from a pool of 161 nominees from 27 countries, the six
honorees for the 2002 World of Children Awards are:
Kellogg's Child Development Award
Honorees
Luke L. Hingson, Pennsylvania, USA
2002 Kellogg's Child Development Award Honoree
For more than 40
years, Luke L. Hingson has guided the growth and development of
the Brother's Brother Foundation (BBF) and its work with children.
BBF is an international, humanitarian aid organization that helps
people in 110 countries by working through partnerships with local
agencies, government institutions, hospitals, universities and
other organizations. Together with partners in the U.S. and other
countries, BBF has provided more than $1 billion (68,000 tons) of
food, textbooks, and pharmaceuticals to children and communities
in need. The foundation has provided 48 million books, serving 25
million students in more than 50,000 academic institutions
worldwide. Under Hingson's leadership, BBF has become one of the
most efficient and effective non-profit organizations in the U.S.
http://www.brothersbrother.org
Henri
Landwirth, Florida, USA
2002 Kellogg's Child Development
Award Honoree
Seventy-five-year-old Henri Landwirth, a
Holocaust survivor, came to the U.S. in 1954. He began managing a
motel near Cape Canaveral, Fla., where he developed strong
friendships with many of the original Mercury Seven astronauts.
Together they founded the Mercury Seven Foundation, now known as
the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, which provides scholarships
to young science students. In addition, he founded Give Kids the
World, a non-profit resort that offers a free vacation to children
with life-threatening illnesses whose last wish is to visit Walt
Disney World and other central Florida attractions, and Dignity U
Wear, which provides new clothing and personal care products to
the underprivileged. Landwirth also founded the Fanny Landwirth
Foundation through which he has built a children's school in
Orlando and created a scholarship program for underprivileged
children in Israel. Most recently, Landwirth founded Building for
Life, a program that provides job opportunities and housing for
homeless people. -
http://www.dignityuwear.com,
http://www.gktw.com,
http://www.astronautscholarship.org/
Glendon P. Nimnicht, Ed.D., Antioquia, Colombia
2002 Kellogg's Child Development
Award Honoree
Glendon Nimnicht, Ed.D., has dedicated his life
to improving the quality of life of those living in poverty in the
U.S., Latin America and Third World countries. In 1963, Nimnicht
opened the New Nursery School in Greeley, Colo., an innovative
program for underserved Mexican-American children and families. He
has also developed national training programs for Head Start
teachers and an award-winning Parent/Child Educational Toy Library
Program. Nimnicht and his wife, Dr. Marta Arango de Nimnicht moved
to Colombia in the 1960s where they created CINDE, the
International Center for Education and Human Development, which
focuses on the physical, emotional and intellectual development of
children and families. They also founded PROMESA, an integrated
community development project focused on improving the overall
environments of young children and families.
www.cinde.org.co
Cardinal Health Children's Care Award
Nominees
Abel Albino, M.D., Mendoza, Argentina
2002 Cardinal Health Children's Care Award Honoree
Inspired by the
public service model of Mother Teresa, Abel Albino, M.D.,
dedicates his life to solving the serious issue of child
malnutrition in Argentina. He created the Cooperative for
Infantile Nutrition (CONIN), a non-profit association that helps
tackle both prevention and treatment of malnutrition and its
consequences, making it a unique program in Argentina. Albino has
also implemented 14 social programs that help both children and
families in areas such as health education, schooling, maternal
day care, alcoholism prevention, adult school for parents,
agricultural education and literacy programs. Even with such
programs in place, Albino realized many children are past the
point of prevention. Drawing on his 30 years as a doctor, he
created a one-of-a-kind hospital that treats children who are
undernourished, have secondary problems such as basic illnesses or
physical defects, and who are socially at risk.
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., Massachusetts, USA
2002 Cardinal Health Children's
Care Award Honoree
For more than a half-century, T. Berry Bazelton, M.D., has
devoted himself to young children and their families. His
extensive research with newborns is used in healthcare facilities
and childcare centers around the world. Through his extensive
publications, nationally syndicated television series and a host
of training venues, Dr. Brazelton has reached countless children,
families and practitioners. Perhaps Brazelton's most important
contribution to the understanding of children is his Neonatal
Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), which enabled the medical
community to better understand newborn behaviors and disorders.
Through the Brazelton Touchpoints Center in Boston, professionals
who provide services and care to families with infants and young
children are trained to develop more meaningful and successful
relationships with parents by sharing information about their
child's social and emotional development and the importance of a
nurturing environment.
http://www.brazelton.org/main.html
Sharon M. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., R.N., Missouri, USA
2002 Cardinal Health Children's
Care Award Honoree
At her own expense and with her personal safety often at risk,
Sharon Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., R.N., has spent more than 25 years
establishing child and adult health care programs and intervention
clinics in Third World countries. Her first health care program
focused on helping developing countries become self-sufficient in
health care practices. The program began in Haiti and is currently
operating in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Zambia, Malawi,
Nepal, India and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kirkpatrick
also established the Traditional Birth Attendant Program (TBAP) in
the Congo, which trains women to provide safe pre- and postnatal
care for home births. Kirkpatrick also developed a community
participation program for the prevention and treatment of common
diseases in the Congo that has helped thousands of children and
adults improve their health and living conditions.
About World of Children
World of Children, Inc. (www.worldofchildren.org)
is a non-profit organization whose mission is to recognize that
the world’s largest voiceless minority, and its most important
asset, is its children -- and to give this minority a voice by
making children’s issues central to the future of all societies
around the world. Since 1998, the Hannah Neil World of Children
Awards program has recognized 24 honorees from 12 countries,
awarding more than $400,000 in cash that has been reinvested in
the community. Each year, a distinguished group of child advocates
representing 11 nations reviews the nominations and selects the
winner. Previous winners have included: Mr. William T. Sergeant
for devoting 30 years to the eradication of Polio by inoculating
over 1 billion children; and Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet for helping
to correct the facial deformities of more than 56,000 children
through a plastic surgery camp he founded 34 years ago in his
homeland of India.
Editor’s note:
Interviews with award finalists may be arranged
upon request by calling Denise Baker at 614-825-1795.
For more information, contact:
David W. Lippy
President
World of Children, Inc.
614-939-1533
DLippy@worldofchildren.org
