The laureates
of the first ever United
Nations Nelson Mandela Rolihlahla Prize
for outstanding contribution to the Service of Humanity have been announced: Helena Ndume and Jorge Fernando Branco
Sampaio.
Helena Ndume is
an ophthalmologist whose life’s work has been dedicated to the treatment of
blindness and eye-related illnesses, both in Namibia and throughout the developing world.
Jorge Fernando
Branco Sampaio was the 18th President of Portugal and receives the prize for his longstanding
commitment to freedom, human rights, democracy and peace.
For 67 years
Nelson Mandela devoted his life to the service of humanity — as a human rights
lawyer, a prisoner of conscience, an international peacemaker and the first
democratically elected president of a free South Africa.
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