International Drawing Competition

International Drawing Competition :: Food for a Healthy World

YUNGA is proud to present the International Drawing Competition: Food for a Healthy World. Food for a Healthy World is a youth education initiative about food and nutrition. It promotes awareness of the importance of a diversity of nutritious foods for a healthy environment and for healthy people. It also highlights some global challenges relating to food – such as hunger, malnutrition, the food system, and climate change. The competition empowers children and young people with knowledge to make more informed food choices and to be active agents of change in our society.  This competition encourages children and young people to create artwork and drawings that express why nutritious foods are important for a healthy world. Participants This international drawing competition is open to ALL children and young people from 6 to 20 years old. Competition rules The drawing should reflect an issue concerning nutritious foods. The drawings may reflect environmental or social issues. Learn more by reading the “Time to Think and Act” section (pages 5-7). You can plan and develop some educational activities to raise your group’s awareness about food, nutrition and food production topics before they start drawing. Drawings should be on white A4-size or letter-size paper in the round or square frames provided inthe annexed templates (see the drawing competition form). The diameter of the round frame and length of the square should be 18 cm. Pictures not submitted in this format cannot be considered in the competition. Drawings should be submitted giving the full name, date of birth, country and postal and/or email address of the participant. Drawings submitted without this information cannot be considered in the competition. Remind your group that the drawing could be used for making small badges and large posters! Encourage them to use bright, bold colours. Participants may use drawing materials of any type: pens, pencils, paints, with the exception of crayons as they do not reproduce well. They are also allowed to use computer graphic programmes. The drawings must be the child’s or youth’s original creation. Most importantly they should usetheir imagination and have lots of fun! Deadline and submission of entries The deadline for submitting your drawings is 1 October 2013. The postmark date will be regarded as the date of delivery. Send your drawing by e-mail to: yunga@fao.org or by post it (preferably in a water-proof envelope) to: Reuben Sessa FAO, NRC Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome, Italy Please note that if your submission is sent electronically you should keep the original drawing in a safe place as we may require the original if your drawing is selected. Competition prizes A panel of FAO staff will choose the winning drawings. Prizes of US$500 will be awarded to the winner of each age group (6-10, 11-15 and 16-20 years old), US$200 will be awarded to the runner up of each age group and US$100 will be awarded to the third best drawing of each age group. In addition, Certificates of Recognition, signed by a United Nations official and a special gift to the schools of the winning artworks will be given. Last but not least, the artworks will be used in logos, posters, FAO publications (distributed worldwide), T shirts and activity badges! Download the drawing competition form here:  drawing_competition_form.pdf Download File Find out more about the rules and requirements of participating.  Read up on some background information on good nutrition and sustainable food production to stimulate your creativity!