# Children's charity SOS-Kinderdorf wins $1 million award

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/09/17/children039s-charity-soskinderdorf-wins-1-million-award/
- Published: 2002-09-17T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The global children’s charity SOS-Kinderdorf International has won the 2002 Hilton
Humanitarian Prize.

The charity, whose UK headquarters are in Cambridge, was nominated by Sarah, Duchess
of York. The prize of $1 million will be used to help the escalating number of children
orphaned by AIDS in southern Africa.

The Hilton Humanitarian Prize will be formally awarded at a ceremony in New York
on Monday 14 October as part of the Hilton Humanitarian Conference on “Social Justice;
Bridging the Global Gap Between Rich and Poor”.

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UK charities are also eligible for the annual prize. The deadline for charities 
to apply for the 2003 Hilton

Humanitarian Prize is Friday 1 November 2002.

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