WAF launches the first Award Presentation November 25th 2010. It brings attention to the global water and food challenge and recognizes cutting edge efforts that address the solution.
The award recognises the most innovative, creative and sustainable projects that provides people in need with the basic necessities: water and food.
The Award Event is an evening of passion for Life. A Call to Peace World Music and visionary keynote speakers tell the story of prosperity.
Social innovation and entrepreneurship
The Humanitarian Water & Food Award is about social innovation and entrepreneurship – one of the fastest growing sectors worldwide. WAF aims at creating social value through a unique mix of business, professionalism, volunteeriness and humanism. The association works cross-sector incorporating grassroots, individuals, government parties, business, NGOs, networks and relations.
Award Statuette
The well-established Danish sculptor Mogens Møller has created and donated the elegant Water & Food Award Statuette. It is 30 cm tall, shaped as an amphora, symbolizing the safe stock of water and food, prosperity and wellbeing.
The former Headmistress of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Else Marie Bukdahl, describes the artist:
”Mogens Møller is well known to the Danes. His beautiful amphorae on Axeltorv are seen by thousands of people on their way in and out of Tivoli in Copenhagen.”
Painting for second prize
The Danish painter and author Bente Noyons has donated her painting to the second prize winner. ”WAF Dreamtime”
The landscape is the vast lands which are desolate and where WAF develops ways to make them furtile. The morning red shows the beginning of wonders!! www.noyons-galleri.dk
