The nominee is required to have significant contributions to children’s lives, and strong background and work relationship with registered non-profit and child-related organizations which can receive grant funds in order to be awarded. The Awards are divided into three distinct categories with eligibilities:
- Health Award: For health, medicine and science services, minimum grant of $50,000.
Eligibilities: Working over their normal employment or for little or no pay for at least 10 years.
- Humanitarian Award: For education, social and humanitarian services, minimum grant of $50,000.
Eligibilities: Same as above, and significantly contributing to the health improvement of children
- Youth Award: For young persons under aged 21, minimum grant of $25,000.
Eligibilities: Working on their child contributions for at least 3 years.
Based on these categories, the distributions of winners of 2012 were 35 in Africa which represented 10 awards of health, 22 awards of humanitarian and 3 awards of youth; and 48 in Asia which represented 13 awards of health, 33 awards of humanitarian and 2 awards of youth. The data indicated that the Health Award and Youth Award candidates will have better chances this year since they occupied relatively lower positions especially of youth. But the candidates from NGOs were the biggest winners.
Among the winners of the Humanitarian Award, many of them offered residential support to those children who did not have sufficient living conditions, or provided educational and informative assistance to local children living in abandoned or poverty conditions, or provided special assistances to those children with special needs, etc. You may go to the winner web page at this link to learn about what types of contributions the winners made to qualify themselves to win the WAC Awards, and to compare their outstanding jobs to your nominee to notice the qualifications, or to choose your nominee candidates. Once you have a candidate, you may follow the next three sections to learn how to prepare and submit your nomination.
