List of Winners

1st Prize

Children's category (1 entrant)
    Regarding the soul - Love changes EPHEMERAL into ETERNAL
Teodora Mihoc (Romania, Age 15)

Youth category (1 entrant)
    Serenity of Our Life
Miranti Daniar (Indonesia, Age 19)

2nd Prize

Children's category (2 entrants)
    My visions for the future
Millicent Boa-Amponsem (U.S.A., Age 14)
    My Hope for the Future
Aya Imai (U.K., Age 14)

Youth category (2 entrants)
    ONE LOVE
Chanda Mutale (Zambia, Age 17)
    MANTRA OF HOPE
Catherine Rose Torres (The Philippines, Age 23)

3rd Prize

Children's category (5 entrants)
    The Power of Belief
Yasumasa Yamazaki (Japan, Age 13)
    Image of Peace
Kaoru Kaganoi (Japan, Age 14)
    MY VISION FOR THE FUTURE
Feeras Zuhair Al-Nassar (Kuwait, Age 10)
    My Vision for the future
Dasha Nemchinova (Ukraine, Age 14)
    My Vision for the Future
Gideon Amoako Sarpong (Ghana, Age 15)

Youth category (5 entrants)
    Le future dès aujourd'hui (Original text written in French)
Gabriel Rodrigues de Campos (Portugal, Age 17)
    We will say - what a wonderful life is!
Tinatin Tsereteli (Georgia, Age 18)
    Let's choose right
Victoria Volkova (Ukraine, Age 20)
    Vespers For Tomorrow
Vesper Fe Marie Llaneza Ramos (The Philippines, Age 20)
    The Future I Own
Vanessa Ann C. Remoquillo (The Philippines, Age 22)

Honorable Mention

Children's category (26 entrants)
        Megumi Higashino (Indonesia, Age 8)
        Moe Hasegawa (Japan, Age 9)
        Gloria Estella Orrego Cifuentes (Colombia, Age 10)
        Alisha Singh (India, Age 11)
        Gabrielle Rose Felio (Canada, Age 11)
        Samantha Karlin (U.S.A., Age 11)
        Segev Rom (Israel, Age 11)
        Aika Ogura (Japan, Age 12)
        Marina Nancheva (Bulgaria, Age 12)
        Helen Dzuba (Russia, Age 13)
        Azusa Innami (Japan, Age 14)
        Chiaki Umezu (Japan, Age 14)
        Yosuke Kawanishi (China, Age 14)
        Wataru Sato (Japan, Age 14)
        Behjat Sahar (Pakistan, Age 14)
        Mutale Given (Zambia, Age 14)
        Mehernosh Minoo Bhadha (Pakistan, Age 14)
        Yara Al-Adib (Kuwait, Age 14)
        Tomoyuki Isa (Japan, Age 15)
        Manami Ogura (Japan, Age 15)
        Siddharth Malhotra (India, Age 15)
        Xu Haoning (China, Age 15)
        Jonathan Moylan (Australia, Age 15)
        Daniela Alejandra Soto Soto (Chile, Age 15)
        Harriet Riley (Australia, Age 15)
        Ben Luks (Australia, Age 15)

Youth category (25 entrants)
        Inna Omelyukh (Ukraine, Age 15)
        Marina Shinozaki (Japan, Age 15)
        Angela Elstob Stoler (Australia, Age 16)
        Shiori Oda (Japan, Age 16)
        Aiko Yabe (U.K., Age 16)
        Nuhodzic Nermina (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Age 17)
        Hanin Ismaiel Abd-alrahman Ahmad Shuqair (Jordan, Age 17)
        Poornima Weerasekara (Sri Lanka, Age 17)
        Amaya Emparan Legaspi (Mexico, Age 18)
        Mitsuaki Nakatani (Japan, Age 18)
        Namyalo Caroline (Uganda, Age 18)
        Muteto Kandala Raymond (Zambia, Age 18)
        Mennat-Allah A. Gaafar (Egypt, Age 18)
        Wisdom Uwagwu (Nigeria, Age 19)
        Tania Raquel Corrales Samaniego (Panama, Age 20)
        Troitskaya Natalie (Russia, Age 20)
        Nadege Anen (Luxembourg, Age 20)
        V. V. Balaji Viswanathan (India, Age 20)
        Maarika Merirand (Estonia, Age 20)
        Valentina Kulichik (Kyrgyzstan, Age 21)
        Sydykov Aziz (Kyrghyz Republic, Age 21)
        Wang Xiang (China, Age 22)
        Anela Freeman (U.S.A., Age 23)
        Titova Elena (Russia, Age 23)
        Silan Otlu (Sweden, Age 24)

Best School Award(2 schools)
        Musashino Higashi Junior High School (Japan)
        The American School of Kuwait (Kuwait)

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