This message of peace and connection comes from Anja Rozen, a 13-year-old artist who lives in Slovenia. Anja won the Lion’s Club International Peace Poster Contestin 2022. Her explanation of the poster is a message to the world about our interdependence and the need to care for the earth and each other. It is important to embrace this image and message and juxtapose it with the pain and suffering in the world. Let’s listen to the children…
Unity, the title of Anja’s art poster, was chosen among 600,000 children from all over the world.
My poster represents the earth that connects and unites us. People stick to each other. If one person lets go, the rest will fall. We are all connected to our planet and to each other, but unfortunately, we are little aware of it. – Anja Rozen, age 13, artist statement
Published by Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN
Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN, is a Nationally Certified School Nurse (NCSN), currently in her 22nd year as a New Jersey school nurse in the Camden City School District. Robin is the Director for New Jersey to the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) Board. She is proud to be a Johnson & Johnson School Health Leadership Fellow and past Program Mentor. Robin is the honored recipient of multiple awards for her work in school nursing and population health. These awards include, 2019 and 2020 National Association of School Nurses President’s Award, 2018 NCSN School Nurse of the Year, 2017 Johnson & Johnson School Nurse of the Year, and the New Jersey Department of Health 2017 Population Health Hero Award. Robin serves as faculty in the School Nurse Certificate Program at Rutgers University-Camden School of Nursing, where she teaches the next generation of school nurses. She was presented the 2018 Rutgers University – Camden Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award for Part-time Faculty. Robin writes a weekly blog called The Relentless School Nurse. She also writes a monthly column in My American Nurse, the official journal of the American Nurses Association. Robin’s work is included as a case study in The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030. You can follow Robin on Twitter at @RobinCogan.
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