Adi Roche to be honoured with ‘Nobel Prize® for Children’ in New York

2nd November 2010

Adi Roche, CEO, Chernobyl Children International will be honoured with the ‘Nobel Prize® for Children’ at the World of Children Awards Ceremony in New York on Thursday, November 4, at UNICEF House in New York City. Adi Roche will receive the World of Children Award (www.worldofchildren.org), which is the only global recognition and funding non-profit that recognises individuals who are changing the lives of children around the world.

‘The World of Children Awards programme is proud to support exemplary individuals for their tremendous efforts to improve the lives of children in the U.S. and abroad,’ said Harry Leibowitz, the World of Children Awards’ co-founder and co-chairman.

Adi Roche is one of the extraordinary individuals who have pioneered life-changing programmes to benefit children and will be honoured with the award that has been recently hailed internationally as the “Nobel Prize® for Children” – an annual honour that includes a grant for the honouree’s charitable work.

For over a dozen years, the World of Children Awards has identified some of the most promising child advocates worldwide and provided funding for their efforts to improve children’s lives. The organisation spearheads health and humanitarian initiatives across the global spectrum has been hailed by leading philanthropic organisations.

The World of Children Awards is led by co-founders Harry Leibowitz and Kay Isaacson-Leibowitz, retired senior executives from Procter & Gamble and Victoria’s Secret, whose dream is to bestow a Nobel Prize®-like award to honour individuals who dramatically improve vulnerable children’s lives. Since 1998, the World of Children Awards has shared more than $4 million in cash grants and programme support with 84 changemakers working in more than 50 countries.

Adi Roche plans to donate the World of Children Awards’ financial support to fund life-saving surgeries on children in Belarus and Ukraine and the training and development of local surgeons so that Chernobyl Children International can continue to save lives well into the future. Adi Roche said ‘In the run-up to the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster next year, I would like to take this special opportunity to remember the forgotten children of Chernobyl and in their name and in the name of countless volunteers I am delighted and deeply honoured to have such a prestigious prize awarded to me and to the work of Chernobyl Children International’.

For further details please contact Miriam Forde: mforde@chernobyl-ireland.com or 087 285 3907

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