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Syrian child wins international art competition

The European Commission announced on July 15 that Mohammad Izzo, 10, a primary-school student at Zeinab Al-Hilalieh School in Damascus, was one of 14 winners of its international art competition.

More than 50,000 students from 61 countries submitted drawings on the theme of gender equality to mark International Women's Day on March 8. Izzo's portrait, titled Women, Like Men, Can Bring Justice, depicts male and female judges presiding over the same court. The winners were selected from the regional categories of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Pacific and Latin America. Izzo and another 10-year-old, from Algeria, won from the Middle East.

"This competition is a very constructive tool to raise the awareness about the importance of gender equality through the younger generations," Head of the EU Delegation to Syria Ambassador Vassilis Bontosoglou said.

The winners, selected by a jury of 50 children from the European School in Brussels, will each be awarded a prize of SYP 60,000 (USD 1,277) to be used to buy books, computers, to pay for school or library fees or for other educational materials.