Press Release: Drawing against poverty: meet the 14 winners of the 2010 Drawing competition on Gender equality

14 young children from the four corners of the world have won the international drawing competition on Gender Equality, which was launched by the Commission on International Women's Day, 8 March 2010. They will be awarded a prize of €1,000 each, which will be used to buy books, computers, pay for school or library fees or other education materials.

Approximately 50,000 eight to ten year old children from 61 countries from Africa, Asia, Caribbean, the Pacific, Latin America, Mediterranean, the Middle East and the EU's Eastern Neighbours have expressed in a drawing their vision on the theme of gender equality - how girls and boys, women and men, can together make the world a better place. The winning drawings will be exhibited from 9 to 26 November 2010 in Brussels.