Monte Carlo, June 18 – Chosen from over 10 million acts of peace worldwide, social business Little Sun was honored with the prestigious Billion Acts Hero Award in the Best Social Enterprise category last night in Monaco during the Monte Carlo TV Festival.
The One Billion Acts of Peace Campaign, originally launched by the PeaceJam Foundation, is led by
14 Nobel Prize winners, including the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, and aims at inspiring one billion
acts of peace by 2020. The awards are held every year, honoring global citizen movements designed
to tackle the most important challenges facing our planet today. Little Sun was voted Best Social
Enterprise Act in a public online voting, for its global engagement and for promoting entrepreneurship
within local communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
The ceremony took place last night in Monaco during the Monte Carlo TV Festival, and Little Sun’s
Head of Press and Communications Rabea Koss was there to receive the prize from Nobel Prize Winner
Betty Williams:
“We are very happy to be represented among such a fantastic array of changemakers. Little Sun is all
about global togetherness for a better planet. With PeaceJam and the Billion Acts, we can spread our
mission further and raise awareness for sustainability and the need for global action.”
Betty Williams premiered her documentary “Contagious Courage” at the Monte Carlo TV festival, a film
directed and produced by Peace Jam’s co-founders Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff.
