We have a winner…..
Thank you, Merci, Gracias, Tak, Dank u, Kiitos, Danke, Σας ευχαριστούμε, Grazie, European really did “Unleash their Creativity” for the UN Europe’s WeCanEndPoverty campaign. Thank you Europe. We received 2036 Ads Against Poverty and all of them extraordinarily creative, which made the job of choosing a single winner just as difficult. Choose we did, or rather the public and the judges did. And the winner is: Stefán Einarsson, from Reykjavík, Iceland. His work “We are still waiting”, calls on world leaders to live up to their promises of ending poverty by 2015. Twenty-nine other works were also chosen as finalists. We are delighted by the diversity of the works themselves and their provenance, 30 works from 14 countries.
The awards ceremony will take place on 10 September in Madrid and the Spanish Presidency award will be given to
Mr. Einarsson by Her Majesty Queen Sofia in the presence of the Secretary of State for Cooperation and Development, Soraya Rodriguez Gomez, the president of our jury and Vice President of Havas Jacques Seguela.
All is not over. We are sending some of the ads to major European newspapers to be published in your countries. We also have partners who will be doing exhibitions of the ads in different cities. If you are interested in organizing an exhibit contact us at info@wecanendpoverty.eu. Also you can still vote for your favorite works on our Facebook page. And we warmly invite you to participate in next year’s Unleash Your Creativity competition. Watch this space for more info.
MDG Summit:
UN Europe’s Unleash Your Creativity campaign is to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals and also to make European citizen’s voices heard by World leaders gathering in New York on 20 September at the MDG Summit to take stock of the progress achieved towards the Goals. And although the competition is finished, it is no time for flat lining, we need your voices and your active participation more than ever. Some of our MDG Advocates and Millennium Friends have taped short interviews to talk about the MDGs, check them out. Last but not least on the week end of 17 to 19 september, millions of people all across the world will Stand Up Against Poverty.
