Children's charity SOS-Kinderdorf wins $1 million award
Howard Lake | 17 September 2002 | News
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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