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From Headlines for the Hopeful   “Bob Dylan may have just won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but the winners of this “Nobel Prize” for helping children in need deserve just as much esteem. The award’s proper name, The World of Children, was awarded to five individuals from around the world, along with hundreds of thousands…

From Luxury Listings NYC “On Thursday night, World of Children hosted their annual gala at 583 Park Avenue in New York City. The organization is dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable children worldwide. Actress Brooke-Burke Charvet and news correspondent Alina Cho served as the Masters of Ceremonies while the evening honored five individuals for their work with…

World of Children was proud to honor two amazing child advocates at our 2016 Awards Ceremony. The Board of Governors Award and Advocacy Awards (each a non-monetary award) are given to individuals who have dedicated their personal and/or professional lives to serving the needs of vulnerable children. This year’s recipients have both used their celebrity as…

Help us congratulation the 2016 World of Children Honorees whom we honored in New York City on October 28, 2016 for their work with children.

From Daily Mail “Lily Aldridge was supported by sister Ruby and husband Caleb Followill as she was honoured at the World Of Children Awards. The 30-year-old beamed with her loved ones by her side as she arrived at the ceremony in New York on Thursday.” Read the full article here

From Huffington Post “How do school communities best support teachers, students and parents in their efforts to promote healthy, happy learners? Is learning more productive in communities that are promoting well-being for all? An OECD/PISA study finds that most teachers and principals “acknowledge that the socio-emotional development of their students is as important as mastery…

Meet Ponheary – 2016 World of Children Education Honoree. Ponheary grew up in a family that emphasized the importance of education. When the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia they abolished education and killed many of the intellectuals and educators in Cambodia, including Ponheary’s father and thirteen of her family members. In the aftermath of…

From Life Lessons Radio Claire Wineland talks about the “flash of brilliance” and initial vision for Claire’s Place Foundation, as well as the impact the organization has had. Listen to the audiocast here

  Meet Dušica – 2016 World of Children Protection Honoree. For 23 years, she’s worked to support healing for child survivors of sexual abuse and advocated for prevention education to reduce the number of future victims. We are proud to honor her work with our first ever World of Children Protection Award and even prouder…

From The Hindu “In 2002, Iyyappan Subramaniyan found a boy with moderate mental retardation in torn clothes standing at a street corner in Thiruvottriyur. On enquiry, he found out that the three-year-old was abandoned by his parents, and was left in the care of his grandfather who was too old to look after him. Iyappan…

  This year’s World of Children Health Honoree is Jimmy Drekore, a native of Simbu Province in Papua New Guinea. Jimmy is dedicating his life to ensuring the children of his home province have access to quality medical care – in a country of 7 million people, with many isolated areas and limited infrastructure, this…

Learn more about Claire and her work! Donate to Claire’s Crowdrise campaign by October 21, 2016 and World of Children will DOUBLE MATCH your donation!

Learn more about Iyyappan and his work!

From Irish Mirror “Humanitarian Adi Roche did what she does best as she clutched her Pride of Ireland gong on Monday night – she thought of others. The Chernobyl Children International founder dedicated her Lifetime Achievement Award to her “army of volunteers” that are the lifeblood of the organisation which has helped tens of thousands…

From Huffington Post “Today in The Global Search for Education, our teachers share their answers to this question: How do you help students accept and work well with people of different beliefs, cultures, languages, socio-economic statuses, education backgrounds, and learning styles? “If tolerance is to be sustainable and cooperation meaningful, writes Miriam Mason-Sesay (@EducAidSL), it…

From Modern Ghana “A commendable social intervention programme christened ‘Always Keeping Girls In School Programme’ has been launched at Dagomba in the Sekyere Afram Plains District of Ashanti Region to help halt dropouts of female students in the junior high schools. The initiative is a brainchild of Procter & Gamble (P&G), in collaboration with P&G…

Thank you Anne Hathaway for your incredible support of World of Children and all of the individuals around the world working on behalf of ‪‎children‬.

From Graphic Online “A pilot project initiated by a local organisation in partnership with its international partners to distribute free sanitary towels to schoolchildren in the Ashanti and Northern regions of the country has been launched. The project, initiated by the EPF Educational Empowerment Initiative, a  non-governmental organisation (NGO), in partnership with the World of…

From News Ghana “The programme, a collaboration between P&G, EPF Educational Empowerment Initiative and World of Children would provide sanitary supplies and health-related educational materials to 1,000 Junior High School girls over the next 6 months.” Read the full article here

From myjoyonline “Adolescent girls in basic schools who could have stayed out of school as a result of poor menstruation management in deprived Sekyere Afram Plains District are being assisted with free sanitary pads to enable them stay in classrooms. Education authorities say several girls who have reached their adolescence spend at least one month…

This post was authored by Co-Founder Harry Leibowitz Last week, I had the good fortune to spend a few days in Ghana with our 2015 Youth Honoree Winnifred Selby and representatives from Procter & Gamble Sub-Saharan Africa who are helping us with our three-party program to keep Ghanian girls in school. Together, we traveled to…

From myjoyonline “A programme that will help to reduce menstruation related dropouts of girls has been launched in Accra. The initiative which is a joint project of three organisations namely Procter & Gamble (P&G)’s Always Keeping Girls in School Program (AKGIS), World of Children and EPF Educational Empowerment Initiative will provide support for underprivileged girls…

From News Ghana “Harry Leibowitz, Co-Founder of World of Children and recipient of the 2007 Procter & Gamble Alumni Humanitarian Award describes the reasoning behind the three-way project saying, “With P&G’s new commitment and past work, Selby’s work with girls in her native Ghana, and World of Children in a position to connect the two,…

From Modern Ghana “Kumasi, Ghana – June 27, 2016 Procter & Gamble’s Always Keeping Girls in School Program, World of Children® Award, and EPF Educational Empowerment Initiative launched a joint project to provide support for underprivileged girls in Ghana to pursue their education. EPF is a Ghanaian organization founded by Winnifred Selby, 2015 World of…