WANGO Award Recipients Receive International Recognition

By Dr. Frederick Swarts, Assistant Secretary General, WANGO

WANGO Awards have sometimes been harbingers of subsequent recognition for the NGO Awardees. After receiving the 2003 WANGO Environment Award on behalf of her organization, the Green Belt Movement, Dr. Wangari Maathai was recognized with the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. After receiving the 2004 WANGO Humanitarian Award on behalf of his NGO, Small Kindness, Yusef Islam was awarded the “Man of Peace Award” at the opening of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, particularly recognizing him for his charity, Small Kindness.

In 2004, the Peace, Security and Reconciliation Award was presented to the PeaceWorks Foundation, and it initiative One Voice, and was received by Founder Daniel Lubetzky. In 2005, One Voice was honored by Queen Noor with the King Hussein Humanitarian Leadership Prize, in an event attended by such luminaries as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, among others.