Sherpa had won the award during the children´s drawing contest " Better City , Better Life" organised by the UN Habitat Regional Office in Fukuoka, Japan to mark the 10th UN World Habitat Day.
Along with Sherpa, Mai Eguchi (Japan, 5th Grader) and Kriss (Myanmar, 5th Grader) also won the Children´s Future Award.[break]
Gillian Mellsop, the UNICEF representative in Nepal, gave away the award to Sherpa amidst a programme organised here on Friday.
A total of 885 children from 10 countries including Nepal, India, China, Japan, Philippines and Myanmar took part in the drawing contest.
The works of children adjudged the best in the contest have been included in the calendar published by the UN Habitat for 2011, too.
The first Monday of the month of October is marked as the UN World Habitat Day.
The Fukuoka based UN Habitat regional office has been organising the children´s drawing competition biannually on the occasion of the Day.
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