2011: RENEE TOFT SIMONSEN

Danish psychologist Renée Toft Simonsen won the ECCO Walk in Style Award 2011. She donated €33,500 to Plan in support of its global campaign, “Because I Am a Girl”, which promotes girls’ rights worldwide. Fifty girls were subsequently selected to receive four-year scholarships to attend high school in Epworth, a low-income suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe. Without these scholarships, the girls would have been unable to continue their education past primary school. Now, they have the chance to do so.

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2010: ILONA FELICJANSKA

Ilona Felicjańska, founder and CEO of the Polish PR agency Felicjańska Media, also runs her own charitable organisation, Niezapominajka (Forget Me Not). Ilona Felicjańska founded the charity in 2006 in order to help Polish families with children who have cerebral palsy. The Polish government provides no support for such families.

LEARN MORE: WWW.NIEZAPOMINAJKA.ORG

2009: ÅSNE SEIERSTAD

“Only through education can the future of girls be changed,” said Åsne Seierstad when she received the ECCO Walk in Style Award 2009, which she donated toward the education of girls in Afghanistan. The world-famous author had already used her book royalties to establish a girls’ school for 600 Afghani girls. She designated her ECCO Walk in Style Award prize money to establish a kindergarten for the children of teachers and female students, so they can teach and learn without having to look after their own children.

LEARN MORE: WWW.AFGHANISTAN.NO

2008: KAREN SIMONSEN

The first-ever ECCO Walk in Style Award was given to Danish designer Karen Simonsen. She donated the prize to SOS Children’s Villages in Ghana, so women could learn to design and sew scarves in order to be better able to support themselves.

LEARN MORE: WWW.SOS-CHILDRENVILLAGES.ORG
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