KABUL - Aziza Rahimzada, a 14-year-old Afghan girl, has been nominated for International Children's Peace Prize, which will be held in November.

Aziza lives in a displaced people's camp in Kabul. She has been nominated for the prize for providing education opportunities to girls and for her efforts to provide them with clean drinking water in internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Kabul.

She said she is committed to do more for them.

"Now that I am a candidate for the prize, I will try to work more for Afghan children," she told TOLOnews.

Besides education, Aziza gives circus training to 50 children in the camps.

"Besides educating them until second grade, I give them training in circus as well. There are 50 children," she said.

A circus trainer in Kabul, Mirwais, said: "Aziza was also praised ... for preparing drinking water for children in IDP camps."
Aziza will compete with two other nominees – one from Liberia and Puerto Rico.

The International Children's Peace Prize is an initiative of Marc Dullaert, Chairman and Founder of the Dutch KidsRights Foundation, and is awarded annually to a child, anywhere in the world, for his or her dedication to children's rights. (Tolonews