Machinto -Hiroshima for Peace

The IFLAC Children’s Peace Train

Children’s Peace Train is a project created by Fred Jeremy Seligson in South Korea in 2002. Children are invited to create drawings on the theme Peace in my own life. Since its establishment, the Peace Train has expanded its railroads to more than a dozen countries all over the world.

We hope to be able to organize a new Festival in 2015.

http://iflacpeacetrain.wordpress.com/

IFLAC (The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace) was established in 1999 by Ada Aharoni, Israeli poet, writer, lecturer and peace researcher. The goal of this NGO is to build “bridges of understanding and peace through culture, literature and communication.” IFLAC Directors and Peace Ambassadors are appointed in some 20 countries.

The e-book with the poems from the IFLAC Children's Peace Train Poetry Festival 2014 is here - download or read online. Included are also drawings from the Children's Peace Train collection. The poems and drawings go so well together. Enjoy! Kind regards, Solveig (IFLAC Web Editor)

http://iflacpeacetrain.wordpress.com/…/a-child-for-peace-e…/


u Goi Peace Foundation in Japan andUNESCO hold “International Essay Contest for Young People” every year. The theme for 2014 was “My Role as a Citizen of Earth.” A lot of young people apply for this contest.  In 2014, 13,635 students sent their essays to this contest from 151 countries. Goi Peace Foundation also holds “The Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition.”  Students learn how to plan projects on the website and they can plan their own projects and apply for the competition to change the world into a better place. You can read the winners’ essays on the website.

International Essay Contest for Young People
uThe Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition 
uhttps://www.youth-competition.org/



Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation organizes the competition and the works can be seen on Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum “Kids Peace Station” website.


About "Children's Peace Drawings Competition"

This competition started in commemoration of "International Year of Peace" of the United Nations in 1986.
Every year we solicit drawings on the theme of "peace" from elementary and junior high school students in Hiroshima City as well as overseas sister and friendship cities.

The 28th Competition

We received 4,140 drawings from 124 schools in Hiroshima City and 653 drawings from 7 overseas countries. (4,793 drawings in total)  You can see the 41 award-winning works of Excellence and Distinction and the name list of 61 award winners of Merit and Honor from abroad.
[Participating countries]The United States, Iran, India, Australia, Germany, France, Russia and Japan

http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/kids/KPSH_E/top_e.html