The Anna Lindh Foundation has presented to the Deutsche Schule der Borromaeerinnen the ‘Golden Dove of Peace’, an international symbol of peace created for the 60th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

The life-size, gold-coloured sculpture is one of thirty identical doves which represent individually one of the 30 articles of the Human Rights and are now passing across the world from person to person and from institute to institute.

The international symbol was originally presented to the headquarters of the Anna Lindh Foundation in November 2007 by Professor Jens Goebel, Minister of Culture of Thuringia, and has now been officially handed on by Andreu Claret, Director of the Foundation, on the 20th of June to Dr Hubert Müller, Director of the Deutsche Schule der Borromäerinnen, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the school.

The ceremony took place at the big hall at the Congress Center of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in the presence of German Interior Minister Dr. Wolfgang Schaeuble, German Ambassador to Egypt Bernd Erbel and the Governor of Alexandria, General Adel Labib.

The Deutsche Schule der Borromäerinnen received the dove as recognition of their successful work for dialogue around the Mediterranean which they have been carrying out over numerous years.

The Deutsche Schule der Borromäerinnen was founded in 1884 and is one of the best established German schools abroad. The pupils there take cultural diversity as granted. On the basis of their own identity and culture, they develop the competence to tolerance and respect towards the other.

The Anna Lindh Foundation is currently running the region-wide campaign ‘Restore Trust, Rebuild Bridges’ which aims to facilitate and support civil society organizations in making action in favour of a culture for peace at the local and regional level.

For more information on the Anna Lindh Foundation’s regional campaign, log on to www.euromedalex.org/restoretrust

For more information on the Deutsche Schule der Borromäerinnen, log on to www.schulwebs1.dasan.de/alexandria