More than 300 local, foreign children join painting contest on Hanoi
The Hanoi Union of Friendship Organizations (HAUFO) in coordination with Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports, Hanoi's Culture Center and Hanoi Peace Committee organized the children’s drawing contest named “I love Hanoi - City for Peace” to commemorate 1,010 years of Thang Long-Hanoi and to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the capital’s Liberation Day.
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| The annual event was co-organized by the Hanoi Union of Friendship Organizations (HUFO), the municipal Department of Culture and Sports, the Hanoi Cultural Centre and Hanoi Peace Committee in response to the 1,010th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi (1010-2020) and the 66th anniversary of the capital’s Liberation Day (1954-2020). Source: HAUFO |
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| More than 300 local and foreign children joined the international painting contest “I love Hanoi – City for Peace” in the capital city on October 10. Source: HAUFO |
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| The event aims to spread peace’s loving among children, understanding more about Hanoi and its thousand years of civilization, strengthen solidarity and friendship between Vietnamese and international children living and studying in Hanoi; and encourage artistic creativity of them. Source: HAUFO |
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| More than 100 international children from many different countries such as: Belgium, South Korea, Israel, Italy, Indonesia, Russia, France, the Philippines, etc., take part in the contest. Source: HAUFO |
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| It afforded Vietnamese and foreign children a chance to meet and strengthen their friendship. Source: HAUFO |
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| Topics of the contest include People and life, Peace, Love for the homeland, Love for Hanoi, Beautiful nature, Environmental protection, Anti-war, etc. Source: HAUFO |
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| A total of 30 prizes including one special prize and one first prize were awarded. Source: HAUFO |
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| The organizing board presents a special prize to Le Tran Thanh Van comes from Nguyen Du Primary School, first prize to Henning Jolene Mai from the Kingdom of Belgium. Source: HAUFO |
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