Eleven-year-old Raj Phairembam from Moirang in Manipur has won the International Peace Poster contest in which children from 100-odd countries took part. He is the first Indian participant to win the global award.
Raj, who is a Class V student of St Xavier's School in Moirang, painted a dove removing a dark covering featuring guns, blasts etc from the earth.
His poster was very creative and the earth underneath featured happy faces of children and another dove carrying the flags of many countries.
"We are very happy to announce that Raj Phairembam has won the grand award in the International Peace Poster contest. I think it's a tremendous achievement for the boy and he has done the entire region proud," said Pankaj Kumar Poddar, the regional chairman of Lions Clubs International, which has been organizing the contest in the country for the last 20 years.
Raj will receive the award at the United Nations headquarters in New York on March 18 this year. The award, which was officially declared on Monday, will feature a plaque and a cash prize of $5000.
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