Child Rights Heroes 2019
Child Rights Heroes 2019

Ashok Dyalchand, India, who has been campaigning against child marriage and fighting for girls’ rights for 40 years, received the World’s Children’s Prize 2019. Spès Nihangaza, Burundi, and Guylande Mésadieu, Haiti, received the World’s Children’s Honorary Awards. Millions of children studied their work and participated in the Global Vote.

Child Rights Heroes 2019

• Spès Nihangaza, Burundi, for her 25-year fight for orphaned children who have been severely affected by the AIDS epidemic and a brutal civil war, received the World’s Children’s Honorary Award 2019.

• Ashok Dyalchand, India, who has been campaigning against child marriage and fighting for girls’ rights for 40 years, received the World’s Children’s Prize, 2019.

• Guylande Mésadieu, Haiti, who has been fighting for 20 years for children who have been forced into slavery, children in prison and children on the street, received the World’s Children’s Honorary Award 2019.

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Spès and children posing for the camera.
Spès Nihangaza
Spès Nihangaza received the World’s Children’s Honorary Award 2019, because for over 25 years she has been fighting to help Burundi’s orphaned and most vulnerable children.
Ashok with a girlsclub
Ashok Dyalchan
Dr Ashok Dyalchand, who has been campaigning against child marriage and fighting for equal rights for girls for 40 years, has been chosen by millions of children to be the 2019 Child Rights Hero and recipient of the World’s Children’s Prize, (WCP), known as the “Children’s Nobel Prize” by worldwide media.
Guylande posing with some children.
Guylande Mésadieu
Guylande Mésadieu received the World’s Children’s Honorary Award 2019 for her fight for Haiti’s most vulnerable children: domestic slave children, street children and children in prison.
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