And the winner of our New Years e-card competition is…
…Sausan Markiv. She is 14 years old and is the daughter of one of our colleagues in Kryviy Rih, Ukraine. Sausan is the winner of the New Years e-card competition, this year based on the theme of ‘sharing’, organised by the ArcelorMittal Foundation among employees’ children. This talented girl tells us that when she is inspired, she feels no fatigue, no pain…
Looking at the winning card and the girl in the picture, the only thing you notice is that Sausan, chosen from hundreds of children who submitted designs from 28 countries in our company wide e-card contest, is a talented and clever girl who also happens to be pretty in pink.
However, after her artwork was chosen to grace our ArcelorMittal New Year e-card, we learned that our young and heroic Ukrainian artist suffers a devastating disease – polyarticular rheumatoid arthritis. She cannot go to school because she is disabled since childhood.
So we want to wish a very special congratulations to ‘Sana’ (as her Mother calls her). May all your dreams come true. A big congratulations also goes to our runners-up – Mattia Grattapaglia (6) from Italy who came second, Kamilla Musabekova (10) from Kazakhstan in third, David López Orozco from Costa Rica and Kenan Selimbašić (13) from Bosnia – plus all the other children who submitted their pictures. Let’s hope 2010 brings to all of us the good joy (and health) we need.
Collaboration: Alexandr Zozulya, ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih
11 comments
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November 26th, 2009 by adriano.francisco
Wonderful art!! God bless this amazing girl!!
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November 26th, 2009 by josephus munu
THAT WORDERFUL. PLEASE LET HER GIFTS MAKE WAY FOR HER, NOW THAT SHE IS DISABLE.
AFRICA CHILDREN ALSO LIKE TO TRY THERE CHANCES, EXPECILLY IN LIBERIA WHERE ARCELORMITTAL IS PRESENTLY OPERATING.CAN U PLEASE LET US KNOW.
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November 27th, 2009 by Anish
Congratulations Sana !!
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November 27th, 2009 by Mary Carey
Congratulations to Sana and all the children who participated. These are the kinds of stories that make working in a company like ours so worthwhile
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November 27th, 2009 by Mary Carey
Also to josephus (and anyone else who might be wondering) this competition was also run in Liberia for the children of ArcelorMittal employees and those that go to the schools we support.
Indeed, a winning design for Liberia was chosen and is one of the 27 optional illustrations people can use on the e-card application
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December 1st, 2009 by Gabriela FLori
Congratulations to Sausan and all children who participated.
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December 2nd, 2009 by Vladimir - AM USA
I’d simply like to echo the sentiments above. Congrats to all of the particiapnts and especially to OUR winner Sana. I think her story is a great story to share at anytime of year, but especiaaly around the holidays. Congrats again Sana and all the best with your future endeavors.
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December 8th, 2009 by Thomas, Jan
a wonderful CHRISTMAS card
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December 10th, 2009 by Réjeanne Le Bloch
Félicitations à Sausan, la grande gagnante du concours 2009.
Nous te souhaitons un merveilleux Noêl et une année remplie de bonheur et de santé.
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December 11th, 2009 by Tatyana Besedina
I am so glad to know our Ukrainian girl ,Sana, is the winner but I think that we have received a great gift for all of us, people of ArcelorMittal on the Eve of Christmas and New Year’s Day …And my congratulation to my colleagues in Liberia ! I will always remember the days I spent there being in Project in 2008 ! And my Congratulations to all participants !
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December 11th, 2009 by PWerner
Priekrasnaja, Sausanna. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year filled with health & joy.
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