World of Children Award
Honorees 1998-2003
The
Award honorees are ordinary individuals who have collectively served the
needs of millions of underserved children, never turning a deaf ear to
our world’s most voiceless minority.
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.
Michael Amylon, M.D. (Stanford, California, USA)
1998 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Honoree
Amylon, a pediatric oncologist/hematologist at Stanford University Medical
School, brought to life Camp Okizu, a special place where children with cancer
come together and feel comfortable being themselves. In addition, he established
the Special and Important Brothers and Sisters program which aids the often
forgotten siblings of children with cancer.
http://www.okizu.org
Marie Bellande, (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
2000 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Honoree
Bellande has established health and childcare development programs to provide
free or low-cost healthcare to thousands of children and families suffering from
tuberculosis and other long-term diseases in Haiti. Her efforts have resulted in
a broad range of programs that provide child development and immunization
services to thousands of children who cannot afford medical care.
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., Massachusetts, USA
2002 Cardinal Health Children's Care Award Recipient
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
Marie Clay, (Auckland, New Zealand)
1999 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
Clay is founder of Reading Recovery, an early intervention program designed
to drastically reduce reading failure and the cost of that failure to students
and schools. This program has benefited more than 1 million children in New
Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, England, Ireland and Bermuda.
Reading Recovery now involves more than 10,600 schools representing over 4,000
school districts and more than 500,000 children.
Andal Damodaran, (Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India)
2001 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
Damodaran has dedicated more than 28 years of her life to serving India's
most vulnerable children. Through her work with the Indian Council for Child
Welfare, she has helped reduce the number of recorded female infanticides in the
southern district of Tamil Nadu. Her voluntary efforts focus on the prevention
of female infanticide and child labor, protection for street children, schooling
for child beggars and training for child-care workers.
http://www.indianngos.com/iccwdelhi
J. Terrance Davis, M.D., (Columbus, Ohio, USA)
2000 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Honoree
Dr. Davis has dedicated his life to providing cardiac care to underserved
children through volunteer efforts in the United States and in developing
nations. He provides free heart surgery for children in need, conducts cardiac
surgery training for physicians working in underprivileged nations and
personally donates much-needed medical supplies to coronary care facilities
throughout the world.
http://www.childrenscolumbus.org
Sharadkumar Dicksheet, M.D., (Brooklyn, New York/India)
2001 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award recipient
Dr. Dicksheet has helped more than 56,000 needy children through The India
Project – Plastic Surgery Camp, a program he founded in 1968 to provide free
reconstructive surgery to children who suffer from congenital and other facial
deformities in his homeland of India.
John Drexel, (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
1998 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
As founder of the Maria Helen Drexel Association, Drexel has spent more than
35 years working on behalf of the 600,000 children living in the streets of Sao
Paulo, Brazil. This non-profit organization addresses the problems of abandoned
children and places them in qualified foster homes.
Martin
Eichelberger, (U.S.A.)
2003 Cardinal Health Children's Care Award Recipient
Dr. Eichelberger is the President and Founder of SAFE KIDS, a non-profit
organization dedicated to the prevention of childhood injuries. SAFE KIDS
establishes coalitions worldwide that lobby for better child-safety laws,
provide tips on injury prevention and distribute safety devices to millions of
children and their families. Dr. Eichelberger is also a renowned pediatric
surgeon as well as the physician to 11-year-old Mattie Stepanek, a New York
Times best selling author of poetry books, struggling to survive a rare form of
muscular dystrophy.
Marian Wright Edelman, (Washington, D.C.)
1998 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
Founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group for disadvantaged
children, Edelman has helped educate the nation about the needs of children
(especially the poor), minorities and those with disabilities. Through her
efforts, the Children’s Defense Fund has educated the nation about the needs of
children (especially the poor), minorities and those with disabilities.
http://www.childrensdefense.org
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
Bertha Holt, (Creswell, Oregon, USA)
2000 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
A pioneer of inter-country adoption and tireless advocate for improved child
welfare standards across the globe, Holt founded Holt International Child
Services, an organization that has united more than 100,000 orphaned children
from war-torn nations with loving families in the United States.
http://www.holtintl.org
Ryan
Hreljac, Canada
2003 World of Children Founder's Award Honoree
When he was just six-years-old, Ryan learned about the poor sanitation
conditions prevalent in remote areas of Africa. He decided to help alleviate the
problem by building a well. After earning money through different chores and
fundraising, Ryan built his first well near a primary school in Uganda. Today,
over 70 wells have been constructed through the Ryan’s Well Foundation. Over
100,000 people in seven African countries have benefited from Ryan’s efforts.
David Hyung-bok Kim, (Eugene, Oregon, USA)
2001 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
Kim has devoted 45 years of his life to serving homeless, abandoned and
orphaned children in more than 25 countries through Holt International
Children's Services. His accomplishments include the creation of a foster home
in Korea, which has evolved into a best practice model recognized by UNICEF, and
the establishment of ethical child welfare and international adoption practices
that benefit thousands of at-risk and homeless children each year.
http://www.holtintl.org
Elizabeth
Jones, U.S.A.
2003 Cardinal Health Children's Care Award Recipient
Twenty years ago, Dr. Jones collaborated with Mexican pediatric surgeon Gabriel
Chong-King to develop the first full-service pediatric health facility in
Mexico’s Baja California region. In 1994, the Hospital Infantil de las
Californias opened in Tijuana. Through efforts in Canada, the United States and
Mexico, the pediatric clinic expanded to include an educational center as well
as ophthalmology, day surgery and dental suites. The hospital is accessible to
all children of the San Diego/ Tijuana region, regardless of their ability to
pay.
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.
Sanphasit Koompraphant, (Bangkok, Thailand)
2001 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
The director of the Center for the Protection of Children’s Rights,
Koompraphant has devoted more than 20 years to serving and protecting children
from child abduction, trafficking and prostitution in Thailand. Center for the
Protection of Children’s Rights was establisehd in 1982 to assist children who
had been neglected, abandoned, physically abused or exploited through child
labor.
http://www.geocities.com/cpcrf/content.html
Helmut Kutin, (Innsbruck, Austria)
2001 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
Kutin has dedicated more than 34 years to serving abandoned, abused and
neglected children around the world through SOS-Kinderdorf International, an
organization that provides children with parental support, siblings, and a
permanent home in SOS Children's Villages.
http://www.sosvindia.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/
Fani
Lerner, Brazil
2003 Kellogg's Child Development Award Honoree
Lerner is the State Secretary for Children and Family Affairs in Parana, Brazil
and has formerly held office as the Secretary for Children’s Affairs in the city
of Curitiba. During her terms, Lerner created 16 programs for needy children and
adolescents. These programs include day-care centers, job-training programs,
homeless shelters, special need programs, food distribution and health education
for children. Lerner also created and chairs Provopar, a volunteer program begun
in 1980 that has changed the face of social work in Brazil.
Kathleen Magee, (Norfolk, Virginia, USA)
1999 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Recipient
For more than 18 years Magee has helped provide free reconstructive facial
surgery to children in Brazil, China, Kenya, Nicaragua, Russian, Romania,
Vietnam and the Middle East through Operation Smile, a volunteer medical service
organization she co-founded. Magee has been able to further Operation Smile’s
mission to provide eduaction and training around the world to physicians and
other health professionals.
http://www.operationsmile.org/aboutus/bios.html
Mahendra
Mehta, India
2003 Cardinal Health Children's Care Award Recipient
Mehta helps millions of children through a variety of outreach programs. Two
decades ago, he created the Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust with his own funds.
Through grain donations from the European Commission, the Trust provides meals
to street children in exchange for school attendance. Mehta also offers
vocational training to children and provides loans for starting small
businesses. Other initiatives by Mehta include providing prosthetics for child
victims of war and earthquakes, corrective facial surgery and braille
educational materials.
Catherine H. Milton, (Westport, Connecticut)
1998 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
Milton has been committed to helping children and communities in need for
more than 25 years through Save the Children Federation, Inc., an organization
which creates positive changes in the lives of disadvantaged children in 40
countries around the world; the Commission of National and Community Service;
and the Haas Center for Public Service, an organization she founded.
http://www.friendsofthechildren.com
Claudia
Gonzales Moreno, Bolivia
2003 Kellogg's Child Development Award Honoree
At only 19, Moreno began to earn the trust of street children in La Paz,
Bolivia. In 1993, she created Alalay, an organization which provided
food, shelter, education and social support to 40 boys. Today, Moreno
works with 11,000 street children per year, providing health care and
education. Another 400 boys, girls and teenage mothers receive shelter.
Moreno has also created a technical high school and a computerized
online learning program to provide high-risk children with a quality
education.
Glendon P. Nimnicht, Ed.D., Antioquia, Colombia
2002 Kellogg's Child Development Award Recipient
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
Chaim Peri, (Haifa, Israel)
1998 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Honoree
Peri has worked to educate immigrant and disadvantaged youth in Israel for
more than 35 years. He is currently the director of the Yemin Orde Wingate Youth
Village, a home and school environment to more than 500 “at-risk” teens from 24
countries.
http://www.yeminorde.org
Louise Pittman, (Montgomery, Alabama)
1998 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
Devoting more than 60 years of her life to improving the well-being of
children, Pittman is a nationally recognized leader in adoption and was
instrumental in establishing a regional adoption exchange and the Adoption
Opportunities Act. She continues to work with VOICES for Alabama’s Children to
create a network of child advocates in each of the 67 counties of the state and
train them to assist in improving public policy.
www.alavoices.org
Jetsun
Pema, India
2003 Kellogg's Child Development Award Honoree
Pema is the President of Tibetan Children’s Villages, located in India.
The Villages began in 1960 as a nursery for 51 Tibetan refugees. Today,
over 20,000 children have benefited from its programs. The homes provide
the children with a caring and supportive environment. Children attend
school, receive vocation training or educational scholarships, and
obtain career guidance. With the Dalai Lama’s support, the programs are
intertwined with Tibetan traditions, preparing the children to be
international citizens while maintaining their cultural identity.
Dayro
Javier Reyes (Acosta, Columbia)
2003 World of Children Founder's Award Honoree
Dayro turned down the opportunity to study law in order to help the poorest of
the poor. Currently, he is in charge of the Asociacion Santandereana Por Niños
Retardados Mentales, an organization devoted to increasing health care services
and education opportunities for Colombia’s mentally handicapped children and
their families. Dayro’s work has improved the quality of life for over 4,000
children.
Peter Samuelson, (Los Angeles, California, USA)
1999 & 2000 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
A movie producer turned child advocate, Samuelson helps more than 80,000
seriously ill children per month throughout the United States, Canada, Australia
and the United Kingdom, through the nonprofit children’s organizations he
founded: STARLIGHT Children’s foundation, the Starbright Foundation and the
First Star Public Policy Initiative program.
http://starbright.org,
www.starlight.org
William Sergeant, (Oakridge, Tennessee)
1998 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Recipient.
Through his efforts with Rotary International, Sergeant has dedicated more
than 40 years of his life to saving children through the eradication of
poliomyelitis, a disease that causes paralysis and can disable children for
life.
http://www.rotarty.org/foundation/polioplus
Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, (Washington, D.C., USA)
2000 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded Special Olympics, an organization that has served
more than 1 million children with mental retardation by providing them with
year-round sports training and athletic competition. Sargent Shriver, who served
as first director of the Peace Corps and as founder of Head Start and Job Corps,
is responsible for the creation of 12 national programs serving underprivileged
youth.
David Southall.M.D., (Butterton, Nr Leek, Staffordshire, England)
1999 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
A pediatrician in the United Kingdom, Southall established Child Advocacy
International, a humanitarian aid agency dedicated to providing emergency
medical care to children who are suffering in war-torn countries.
http://www.childadvocacyinternational.co.uk/
Abubacar Sultan, (Maputo, Mozambique)
2001 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
Sultan began his work for the children of Mozambique, his homeland, when he
was just 24 years old. After the war in Mozambique, Sultan developed a new,
innovative children’s rights initiative called Wona Sana. For the past 15 years,
he has worked tirelessly to rescue children who were forced to become child
soldiers and those who were separated from their families as a result of war.
Rev. William Bryce Wasson, (Cuernavaca, Mexico)
2000 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award recipient/winner
Founder of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos children’s homes in Mexico, Haiti and
Central America, Wasson has dedicated more than 45 years of his life to serving
more than 100,000 orphaned and abandoned children by providing housing,
healthcare, education and loving environments.
http://www.nphamigos.org
Rose Washington, (Caanan, New York, USA)
1999 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
As former commissioner of the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice,
Washington developed the department’s “strength-based” approach which made a
lasting change in the way children and families are treated within the system.
In addition, she implemented the first after-care program for children returning
from out-of-home placements in the juvenile justice system and transformed a
large detention center into a model program for the caring of young people.
http://www.berkshirefarm.org
Yongguang XU, (Beijing, China)
1999 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award Honoree
As founder and Secretary General of the China Youth Development Foundation,
which promotes youth development in education, science, technology, culture,
sports and welfare, Xu initiated Project Hope. This program has helped bring
more than 2 million impoverished children to school and has led to the
construction of 7,111 primary schools and 10,000 mini-libraries across rural
China.
http://www.cydf.org.cn
Past Winners:
2003
Kellogg's Child Development recipient, Fani Lerner
Cardinal Health Children’s Care recipient, Martin Eichelberger
World of Children Founder's Award recipient, Ryan Hreljac
2002
Kellogg's Child Development recipient, Glendon P. Nimnicht.
Cardinal Health Children’s Care recipient, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton
2001 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award
recipient,
Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet
2000 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award recipient,
Rev. William Bryce Wasson
1999 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award recipient,
Kathleen Magee
1998 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award recipient,
William Sergeant
