Healthy Children, Healthy Planet
Back in 2020 we sent out a request to all children and young persons around the world to submit their artwork. Here they are! A huge heartfelt thank you to our talented artists. Your artwork and stories are inspiring.
Clebio Amandina, Pemba, Mozambique
Clebio lives in Pemba, northern Mozambique, which is currently seeing hundreds of thousands of displaced people flee too from the Isis insurgents slightly further north of where he lives.
He has grown up with the NGO family of Iris Global, having lost his own parents at a young age. He currently still lives with them and is completing his High school studies.
“I drew the animal because we were offered by the Lord God to take care of animals and these animals make the planet healthy and makes a beautiful planet. Animals are the most kind to man”
Emilia Carai, 16 years old, Copenhagen, Denmark
I currently study at an international school in Copenhagen. I recently carried out a research project on how to improve the health of children in cities. My project focused on how to fight obesity in children as an effect of urbanisation by promoting physical activity and contact with nature. I found it important to include children and therefore, ran focus group discussions with children of different age groups about playgrounds - and found one key element around which this art and my project centres: the tree.
Here you can find a short speech I held for the Uppsala health summit about my project! For the competition, I would like to enter the drawings below, showing trees that every child should have to live healthily.
Emilia Carai, 16 years old, Copenhagen, Denmark
I currently study at an international school in Copenhagen. I recently carried out a research project on how to improve the health of children in cities. My project focused on how to fight obesity in children as an effect of urbanisation by promoting physical activity and contact with nature. I found it important to include children and therefore, ran focus group discussions with children of different age groups about playgrounds - and found one key element around which this art and my project centres: the tree.
Here you can find a short speech I held for the Uppsala health summit about my project! For the competition, I would like to enter the drawings below, showing trees that every child should have to live healthily.
Emilia Carai, 16 years old, Copenhagen, Denmark
I currently study at an international school in Copenhagen. I recently carried out a research project on how to improve the health of children in cities. My project focused on how to fight obesity in children as an effect of urbanisation by promoting physical activity and contact with nature. I found it important to include children and therefore, ran focus group discussions with children of different age groups about playgrounds - and found one key element around which this art and my project centres: the tree.
Here you can find a short speech I held for the Uppsala health summit about my project! For the competition, I would like to enter the drawings below, showing trees that every child should have to live healthily.
One Child, One Tree, Copenhagen, Denmark
I am 16 years old and currently study at an international school in Copenhagen. I recently carried out a research project on how to improve the health of children in cities. My project focused on how to fight obesity in children as an effect of urbanisation by promoting physical activity and contact with nature. I found it important to include children and therefore, ran focus group discussions with children of different age groups about playgrounds - and found one key element around which this art and my project centres: the tree.
Here you can find a short speech I held for the Uppsala health summit about my project! For the competition, I would like to enter the drawings below, showing trees that every child should have to live healthily.
One Child, One Tree, Copenhagen, Denmark
I am 16 years old and currently study at an international school in Copenhagen. I recently carried out a research project on how to improve the health of children in cities. My project focused on how to fight obesity in children as an effect of urbanisation by promoting physical activity and contact with nature. I found it important to include children and therefore, ran focus group discussions with children of different age groups about playgrounds - and found one key element around which this art and my project centres: the tree.
Here you can find a short speech I held for the Uppsala health summit about my project! For the competition, I would like to enter the drawings below, showing trees that every child should have to live healthily.
Eylül Çelikkıran, 9 years old, Izmir, Turkey
Taishan Harrison, 8 years old, Johannesburg, South Africa
It picturises himself on a bike with food basket (with food in a ray of rainbow colors) cycling around the blue lake and green mountains - a lifestyle and planet that he wishes all the kids around the world will enjoy.
Rajesh Chandra, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
Colourful dreams
Watercolour on canson sheet
In this artwork I painted a boy in Rishikesh Triveni ghat area selling colourful pinwheels to earn his livelihood . Kids who need a better life during this age like Education, Health and other basic necessities of life are sometime forced to gave up everything and do things which are not made for them . It's ironical that the boy who is working in this age is still happy and smiling as he is carrying his colourful pinwheels on his shoulder may be his colourful dreams . But actually he belongs to a condition where he is studying , playing and leaving his childhood to make his future prosperous . So I painted this to aware people to create a feeling of responsibility that it is not the responsibility of goverment only but everyone as a human to ensure that whatever as a human being we can do are doing for such kids . we all should support each other , love each other and make this earth a better place by kindness and love .
Jama Zibusiso Khumalo, Johannesburg, South Africa
I am a grade 2 learner from a school called Mimosa in Auckland Park Johannesburg.
I drew a waterfall that is not polluted and three trees that bear different fruit. The first one has plums, the second one has apples and the third has lemons. The background is from bubbles if different colours. I guess that is it.
Komolafe, David Oluwagbemiga, 8 years old, Nigeria
Komolafe, David Oluwagbemiga, 8 years old, Nigeria
Komolafe, David Oluwagbemiga, 8 years old, Nigeria
Komolafe, David Oluwagbemiga, 8 years old, Nigeria
Komolafe, David Oluwagbemiga, 8 years old, Nigeria
Master Rohan Phuyal, 14 years old, ILAM, Nepal
A young artist, who is living with muscular dystrophy.
Master Rohan Phuyal, 14 years old, ILAM, Nepal
A young artist, who is living with muscular dystrophy.
Oliver and Georgina Bithrey, 9 and 7 years old
Oliver and Georgina are siblings who had a lot of fun doing it and laughed a lot, especially at the farting cows.
We are still accepting artwork!
A call to all our young artists (up to 18 years old) all around the world! Our website is needing some new images and we want you to contribute with your artwork, photographs or graphic designs!
Although the competition is officially finished we are still welcoming artwork.
Our theme is Healthy Children, Healthy Planet - what does being healthy mean to you? Can you draw it for us? Can you take a photograph*? Is it eating healthy? Seeing a doctor or a nurse? A plastic free beach? Playing outside? Doing exercise? Living in a fairer world?
It is probably best to scan and email us (intchildhealth@gmail.com) your entries but if you don’t have a scanner and you have a good camera on your phone this may work to!
By sending us your artwork you are giving us permission to use your artwork on our website.
If you are sending us photographs we would prefer not to have photographs of children where it is easy to recognise the child. We hope you understand!
If you have any questions please email us on intchildhealth@gmail.com