Mabelreign Girls High “Major” is a school that thrives on success. Recently awarded the Best Blood Donating School in 2010, Sasha, a Form 3 student at the school has won the UNESCO HIV and AIDS Poster Competition for this year organized in collaboration with the UNESCO Associated Schools Project network (ASPnet). As regional winners the school will receive a digital camera.
“It’s a dream come true for me, I love art”, said the excited girl who joined five other young students from across the world as the winners of the competition. Her poster won the Sub-Saharan Africa category. Through this poster competition, UNESCO aimed to increase knowledge about HIV and AIDS among pupils in secondary school.
The results were announced in July and the young art student will receive an official certificate of merit from UNESCO and her posters as well as the other 4 winners are now part of the Organization’s databank of education materials. The posters where exhibited at the global village at the International AIDS Conference, in Vienna, 18-23 July 2010.
Young people aged between 15 and 24 account for 45% of all new HIV infections worldwide (UNAIDS 2008), yet only 19% of females and 30% of males aged between 15 and 24 have comprehensive knowledge about HIV and how to avoid transmission (UNAIDS 2008).
The global prize of a video camera went to Liceo Alcalde Jorge Indo of CHILE. The theme for the competition was Art in Action – Empowering Young People against HIV and AIDS.
The five regional winners are:
• Arab States: MOROCCO – Lycée Ibn Zaidoun
• Asia-Pacific: CHINA – Simply Art School
• Eastern Europe: ROMANIA – Colegiul National Onicescu
• Sub-Saharan Africa: ZIMBABWE – Malbelreign Girls High School
• Latin America and the Caribbean: CHILE – Liceo Alcalde Jorge Indo
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