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WHO's photo and video contest, "Images of Health and Disability"

This is a short message to hightlight WHO's photo and video contest, "Images of Health and Disability" - the main theme being Health and Environment. The contest closes 9th March 2007.

This is an invitation to raise awareness of the importance of ensuring healthier environments (incl. for children and adolescents) through powerful images, illustrations, stories and video clips. Powerful images can form the basis of an excellent lesson, generate intense and thoughtful discussion and "be as effective as a thousand words".

Anyone with a special interest in Children's Environmental Health, this contest may provide a good opportunity for illustrating the situations in which you are most interested, concerned or pleased about - as when children thrive in safe and healthy environments.

Please see the details under Public Health and Environment - PHE's web site: http://www.who.int/phe
Entry form: http://www3.who.int/icf/photocontest2007/photocontest.html

The aim is to obtain a creative collection of high quality images to promote a better understanding of the positive and negative aspects of health and environment, their relevance to some specially vulnerable population groups - and promote excellence through competitive
spirit.

Please highlight, publicize and disseminate this information as widely as possible to ensure a "snowball" effect!

This was posted on the Art4Development Yahoo! Groups listserv.