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ON JUNE 14TH, 2016 THE AWARDS OF THE 19TH “ESTE ES MI MÉXICO” CHILDREN’S DRAWING CONTEST WERE HANDED OVER TO THE HUNGARIAN PARTICIPANTS IN THE MEXICAN EMBASSY IN BUDAPEST

The Embassy of Mexico in Hungary organized on June 14th, 2016 the Awards Ceremony of the 19th "This is my Mexico" Children's Drawing Contest, whose theme this year was: "My favorite place in Mexico".

The event took place at the Embassy of Mexico in Budapest where the Ambassador welcomed personally the participants. Approximately 50 people, including the students, their parents and their teachers from different corners of Hungary participated on the event. The Director of Education of the I. District of Budapest, Dr. Klára Gálné Csabai, the education expert, Magdolna Rózsa and Stella Pap, Hungarian teacher of Spanish as foreign language were invited as special guests.

The Ambassador underlined that she is very proud of the massive participation of Hungarian children in the contest and she added that the massive participation shows the feelings and vision of the Hungarian children about Mexico and the way they perceive themselves. She expressed her satisfaction with the great interest shown towards the competition each year and emphasized the role of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME) and the renowned Mexican painter Carmen Parra, who organized this competition in 2015, which has become a successful experience among Mexican and children of other nationalities that drives artistic expression.

Afterwards, the official certificates and calendars of the contest were handed over to the participants, a certificate with honorable mention was given to Laura Litvák and finally Mirkó Peresztegi received the most important prize as one of the 10 winners of the drawing contest. Mirkó brought home a painting of the famous Mexican painter, Carmen Parra; an iPad2 Mini; a bundle of Mexican children’s book; the official calendars and certificate of the competition.

After the celebration, the Ambassador announced the 20th edition of the competition and invited all those children present not to doubt about participating again and to spread the word about the new call in order to count on an even greater participation next year.

Eventually some refreshers, snacks and sandwiches were offered to our honorable guests.

To see the photos of the event please click here.