Vietnamese girl wins international drawing contest

Hanoi (VNA) - Nguyen Ngoc Yen Nhu, a 9-year-old primary pupil from
Vietnam 's southern province of Long An, and another girl from Thailand , won the first prize for Asia of an International Children's Drawing Contest on the theme of Gender Equality.

The contest, organised by the European Commission on the occasion of
International Women's Day 2008, aims to call on children in third countries,
to express their vision of women/men equality.
Among nearly 26,000 drawings from all over the world submitted to the
contest, 14 of them were selected for awards. In particular, the jury
consisted of European children aged 8-10 years.
The contest, launched in Vietnam earlier this year, got 3,000 entries.
The best ten drawings were sent to Brussels for the international
selection round. The Vietnamese awarded drawing, named "Both boys and
girls are playing together", brought a sum of prize money of 500 EUR to the
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