World of Children Awards

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 The Cardinal Health Children's Care Award recognizing individuals who have made a significant lifetime contribution to the health and well-being of children. This award is accompanied by $100,000. 

  The Kellogg's Child Development Award recognizes courageous people who brighten children's future by greatly improving their opportunities to learn and grow.  This award is accompanied by $100,000. 

Founder's Award - A $15,000 scholarship prize to recognize young people who are making extraordinary contributions to children.  For people under 21 who have at least 3 years of consecutive service to children.

All of the World of Children Awards were established to give a voice to children - the most under-served population in our world - by lifting up those who dedicate their lives to them.

All of our partners strongly believe they are investing in the world’s future through our children.

The Awards Honorary Chair is three-time heavyweight boxing champion and international child advocate Muhammad Ali.  Co-Chair is Greg Smith.

 Awards History

On the stage of world athletic competition, the best in the world receive an Olympic Gold Medal. When words illuminate our world in new and striking ways, the best of authors receive a Pulitzer Prize. In the quiet pursuits of medicine, science and economics, the best are given a Nobel Prize. And now, those whose lives are dedicated to improving the lives of children will be honored, too, with the World of Children Awards.

The  World of Children Awards program was created to honor and recognize those selfless individuals who make a world of difference in the lives of children across the globe, regardless of political, religious and geographical boundaries. World of Children (WOC) believes it is important to recognize that our children are the world’s largest, voiceless minority, as well as its most important asset. WOC seeks to give this minority a voice by making children’s issues central to the future of all societies around the world.

In its seventh anniversary year, the program has expanded to include two separate $100,000 awards. Founding sponsor Kellogg’s, will present the Kellogg's Child Development Award honoring an individual who has made a significant lifetime contribution to children’s futures by greatly improving their opportunities to learn and grow.

Cardinal Health 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. In addition to the awards winners, an additional four international honorees will be recognized for their work on behalf of children.

With the support of three-time heavyweight boxing champion and WOC event honorary chair, Muhammad Ali, a prestigious International Advisory Council (IAC) selects Awards winners. The council is comprised of widely recognized leaders from the fields of education, science, medicine, philosophy and the arts. Members represent the highest ethical and humanitarian standards of our society. Ali has been a member of the IAC since its foundation in 1998 and was named event honorary chair three years ago.

Previous Winners

2003 - Fani Lerner (Brazil) received the Kellogg's Child Development Award.  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.

2003 - Martin Eichelberger, (U.S.A.) received the Cardinal Health Children's Care Award.  He 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.

2003 - Ryan Hreljac, Canada received the Founder's Award.  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.


2002 – T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. (Boston, Massachusetts) received the Cardinal Health Children’s Care Award for his lifetime commitment to families and newborn babies.  Dr. Brazelton has always had a special focus on infant development having devoted more than half a century to his profession.  His extensive research with newborns is used in healthcare facilities and childcare centers around the world, benefiting many thousands of children.

2002 – Glendon P. Nimnicht, Ed.D. (Antioquia, Columbia) received the Kellogg’s Child Development Award for his work in education and health care programs focused on children throughout Latin America.  Beginning with just a small nursery school in Colorado nearly 40 years ago, Nimnicht has dedicated his life to helping more than 200,000 children in Columbia and the United States during their early years of development.

2002 – Craig Kielburger (Ontario, Canada) Craig received the Founder’s Award for hi work on behalf of other children from around the globe.  At the age of 12, Craig founded ‘Kids Can Free the Children’.  Seven years later Craig’s organization has the largest network of children helping other children with more than 100,000 children involved in their work to fight child labor, promote education and to inspire the future leaders of tomorrow.  Through Craig’s efforts, he has helped hundreds of thousands of children from around the world.

2001- Sharadkumar Dicksheet, M.D. founded the India Project in 1968 and at the age of 71 has performed over 54,000 free surgeries on poor and needy children who suffer from congenital and other facial deformities.

2000 - Fr. William B. Wasson is founder and director of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (“Our Little Brothers and Sisters”), a family of children’s homes in Mexico, Haiti and Central America.

1999 - As co-founder of Operation Smile, Kathleen Magee has helped provide free, reconstructive surgery to thousands of children with facial deformities, all over the world.  http://www.operationsmile.org/aboutus/
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1998 - William T. Sergeant is chairman of the International PolioPlus Committee of the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. Bill has dedicated his life to saving children through the eradication of poliomyelitis.

For information about the Awards or to set up an interview, please contact the World of Children office at (614) 410-6060 or E-mail Suzan@WorldofChildren.org. 

For information about the Award or to set up an interview, please contact the World of Children at (614) 491-3633 or e-mail Suzan@WorldOfChildren.Org