In association with International PaintPals, Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA) organized a painting contest in 2007 and invited young people aged 6 to 18 to create artwork that reflects the ideals and spirit of humanity of the Olympics.
The winning entries will be exhibited by International PaintPals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The participants’ paintings express their ideas of peace, goodwill, pluralism and friendship among nations. International PaintPals has acquired entries from young people worldwide to communicate their personal views and share cultures and friendship through the universal language of art (www.paintpals.org).
Students were encouraged to submit paintings that reflected messages of:
PLURALISM: appreciation for diversity, tolerance, harmony and compassion for fellow human beings around the world; OR
ENDING POVERTY: how reducing poverty around the world can bring greater peace, goodwill and hope.
Promoting pluralism and working to end global poverty are key components of AKF USA’s work. Participating schools ranged from many cities in the Dallas area including
Addison, Allen, Carrollton, Coppell, Dallas, Frisco, Grapevine, and Irving.
69 submissions from the Dallas metro area were displayed at the Dallas Partnership Walk on October 14, 2007.
Seven entries were submitted by students from Orlando, Florida of which three were selected as winners.
Ismailimail 
What beautifully expressive paintings, seen through the eyes of
a child. The images “speak” the concept to us, the viewers.
I do hope they will be printed and made available as cards.
The solution to what ails our world, will, eventually. lie in the
hands, and minds, and actions, of the children of today.
And, let us not forget, that we, the adults of today, were also, in
our turn, the children of yesterday.
The march of time, the march of the generations, the march, one can
but hope and pray, towards peace, harmony, equality, a coming
together as, what is in the end, one human race.
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