Serrekunda Lower Basic School on Friday conducted global vote for the World Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC) during a ceremony held at the school premisses.

SLBS conducted on electoral process in the children voting for one of the three contesting candidates for the award of World Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC) namely, Josepina Condori of Peru and Agnes Stevens respectively represented by Awa Jassey and Fatou Bintou Njie.

The WCPRC belongs to all children and young people under 18 in the world.  SLBS is one of 33,000 global friend schools with 15 million pupils in 86 countries and the number is growing fast.

Josepina Condori has been nominated for the 2008 WCPRC for her long often in slave like conductions.  Many of the hundreds of thousands of domestic workers face abuse in the homes in which they work.  Josefina, who has been a maid herself, has been fighting for the rights of domestic workers since she was a teenager.

Hundreds of children struggle to survive in the homeless neiglobourhood of Los Angeles, surranded by drugs, violence and poverty, Ryan Wilson, 13, is one of them Agnes Stevens and her organisation, school on wheels, help Ryan and other homeless kids to get through school and feel that they're worth something. There are one million homeless children in USA.

Somaly Mam has been nominated for the 2008 WCPRC for her long and often dangerous struggle to save the girls who are sold as slaves to and at brothels in cambodia.  In 2006, her 14 year old daughter was kidnapped, raped and sold to a brother, people wanted to punish Somaly for her fight for girl's rights.