Twelve-year-old Annika Ocampo always felt the pain of her friends who were bullied in school. She said she would turn to music to calm her down. Her experience with bullying and the way she uses music during troubled times have inspired her to create the comic superhero Althea.Read More →
YOUNG Filipino artist Annika C. Ocampo, 12, has been selected as a finalist to the School Superhero Comic Contest organized by the United Nations International Child-ren’s Emergency Fund (Unicef).Read More →
Seventeen-year-old student Rizka Raisah Fatimah Ramli from Makassar, South Sulawesi, has won the Unicef and Comics Uniting Nations’ worldwide comic contest. Her creation Cipta is designed to help keep children and young people safe from violence in and around schools.Read More →
Seventeen-year-old student Rizka Raisah Fatimah Ramli from Makassar, South Sulawesi, has won the UNICEF and Comics Uniting Nations’ worldwide comic contest. Her creation Cipta is designed to help keep children and young people safe from violence in and around schools.Read More →
Rizka Raisa Fatimah Ramli, a 17-year-old student from Makassar, Indonesia, has won the UNICEF and Comics Uniting Nations’ worldwide comic contest with a character who helps keep children and young people safe from violence in and around schools. ‘Cipta’ – as the main character is called – is a make-believe superhero who gives children a sketchbook to draw objects that in turn come to life and stop violence and bullying.Read More →
A 17-year-old student from Makassar, Indonesia has won UNICEF and Comics Uniting Nations’ worldwide comic contest. But her victory is special as she created a comic character that helps keep children and young people safe from violence in schools. Rizka Raisa Fatimah Ramli created ‘Cipta’-the main character who is make-believe superhero who gives students sketchbook to draw objects which come to life in order to stop violence and bullying.Read More →
As a kid, Ovie Mughelli grew up a fan of the cartoon series “Captain Planet and the Planeteers.” Mughelli’s favorite character from the 1990s environmental TV show was Kwame, the unofficial leader of the Planeteers, who was African-American and possessed the power of the Earth. “Kwame was a character that really stuck with me,” said Mughelli, a former Porter-Gaud High School football standout. “I think part of what attracted me to his character was that he was an African-American and there were not many African-American superheroes back then.Read More →
For World Environment Day, there was a UN Green Fair complete with a solar powered car and costumes made of plastic water bottles from which UN officials are swearing off. Among the tables on the plaza in front of the UN General Assembly building was one from Comics Uniting Nations, which in April launched the winner of the first ever UNICEF Climate Comic Contest for her character ‘TRé’ – a half tree-half human who uses special powers to save nature from a warming planet. Now they have a new comic called the “Poseidon Patrol,” which covers the growing problem of plastics in the ocean. Read More →
She is just 21 and is the winner of the first ever Unicef Climate Comic Contest. Sathvigha Sridhar, who prefers to be known by her pet-cum-artist name, ‘Sona’, created a character Tré, who can photosynthesise; is half-human and half-tree. The contest, created by Unicef and its partner Comics Uniting Nations, received nearly 3,000 submissions from 99 different countries. The participants were all youngsters and more than 21,000 votes were cast to select the winner.Read More →
United Nations, New York, USA, April 19 2018 – Sona Sridhar, 21-year-old artist from India, winner of the first-ever UNICEF Climate Comic Contest launching her comic book on climate change during the Event entitled “Youth Power the Planet: an SDG Activate Talk to Celebrate Earth Day” on the occasion of International Mother Earth Day (22 April) today at the UN Headquarters in New York City.Read More →
