John XXIII Kindness Award 2010

June 23, 2010

For the forty seven years running the organising committee of the Peace Laboratory asked for the co-operation of all Heads of Schools and person in charge of Institutions and Organisations in the selection of a boy or girl who deserves this award.

The Award apart from seeking a winner will also emphasise the innate kindness that one finds in the vast majority of children. The award is granted on the basis of love, kindness and generosity towards others.

Dylan Caruana a Form IV Student who attends St. Michael School Qormi has been selected for the Award of Kindness John XXIII – 2010.

Dylan has been studying at ST Michael School for the past four years. In that same scholastic year the school admitted Saviour Pace who suffers from Downs’ Syndrome.

Dylan was often offering all kinds of help to Saviour, staying next to him during those lessons that Saviour could cope on his own such as during PSD, Drama, Art and Physical Education. Dylan went even further, he tried to do his best not to let Saviour be bullied or in any way “abused” by other students.

Dylan is also an all rounder, good at his studies, excels as a sports man especially in football and has an excellent record in his behaviour.

After examining carefully the applications from fifty four schools the Peace Lab selected Dylan Caruana to be the winner of the 2010 edition and asks the President of the Republic to present him the gold medal bearing the image of John XXIII to mark the anniversary of the death of the good Pope.

The award was presented by President George Abela and is given every year, by the Peace Lab, to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Pope John XXII.