Bangladeshi girl nominated for Int’l Children’s Peace Prize

Fourteen-year-old Bangladeshi girl Afrida Jahin, who works as a volunteer at a children organisation in Rangpur, has been nominated for the prestigious International Children Peace Prize 2022 by KidsRights Foundation, a Netherland-based organisation.

Some 175 children from 46 countries across the world have been nominated for the prize under different categories this year. Of them, three will be awarded.

Kids Rights launched the prize during the 2005 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at the Capitol in Rome which recognizes the young winner’s achievements and offers the winner a global platform to promote his ideals and further his work. The platform recognises the children’s contribution annually who works courageously to improve a sustainable community establishing children’s rights

Afrida Jahin, a young change-maker who has been selected for the prize for her significant contribution to improving the livelihood of the poor and underprivileged children and ensuring their rights for sustainable development in the community.

She showed her charity and generosity through volunteer service offering the hard-core people food and cloth during the Covid- 19 crisis. She presented the Iftar packet and face- mask among the rickshaw-puller and beggars during the holy month of Ramadan.

Afrida Jahin is the elder daughter of a physician couple – Mahabubul Bari and Miratul Jesmin, residents of the Dhap Shamoli lane area of Rangpur City. She has a younger brother. A ninth grader of Cantonment Public School & College of the city, Jahin dreams to build up an orphanage for street children in Bangladesh in the future.

Afrida wants to see a world where children will be free from poverty-hunger and enjoy their basic rights and amenities.

‘’ I am happy to be nominated for the prize. I applied through online application in last February for the selection finding announcement of the organisation on social networking site. I came to know about my nomination on the KidsRights Foundation website on Wednesday,” she also said.

“We have an organisation named ‘Spread Smile’ from where we serve meals in an orphanage and old home every month,” she added.

Earlier, Sadat Rahman, 17 a Bangladeshi boy won the KidsRights International Children’s Peace Prize -2020 for developing a mobile app to help teenagers report cyberbullying and cybercrime.