ONE WORLD AWARD
Furthermore Joseph Wilhelm, the founder of Rapunzel Naturkost AG, started a new international prize, the so-called ONE WORLD AWARD with the aim of honouring people, projects and initiatives that use the opportunities of globalisation to make this world better and fairer and to conserve its nature. 25,000 Euro is allocated for the prize and was awarded for the first time in June 2008 and will be bestowed every two years.
On the 19th June 2008, Lal Emmanuel, director of the Nagenahiru Foundation in Sri Lanka was honoured with the first international “One World Award” for his dedication in numerous sustainable projects, especially for the protection and reforestation of mangrove forest.
Further information about the One World Award can be found under: www.one-world-award.de