On Thursday, 11 December at 11 a.m., the first prize will be awarded to the winners of the children's rights painting competition, the "Am Stadtpark" primary school. On the same day, at 1.30 pm, the second prize will be awarded to the Reichenbrand after-school care centre. On Wednesday, 17 December at 8.30 am, the third prize will be awarded to the Rabenstein "Hans Carl von Carlowitz" primary school.
Representatives of the press are invited to attend.
At the beginning of the 2025/2026 school year, Dina Norberger, the Children and Youth Officer, called on all children attending a Chemnitz primary school or after-school care centre to take part in a city-wide drawing competition on the topic of children's rights. The aim was to create a brochure from the entries in which the ten1) most important children's rights would be presented using pictures drawn by children.
By the closing date of 31 October 2025, a total of twelve schools and after-school care centres had responded to the call. The children creatively explored their rights in the drawing competition and worked out what is important to them. This resulted in beautiful, exciting and surprising works that were assessed by a jury according to various criteria: recognisable children's rights, implementation, relevance to Chemnitz and suitability for the brochure.
Thanks to the sponsors GGG, Sparkasse Chemnitz and Volksbank Chemnitz eG, the three winning institutions will receive attractive prize money with which they can realise the children's wishes and projects:
1st place: 300 euros for the "Am Stadtpark" primary school
2nd place: 200 euros for the Reichenbrand after-school care centre
3rd place: 100 euros for Rabenstein primary school - "Hans Carl von Carlowitz"
Everyone else will not go away empty-handed either: There is a great reward for all participating children.
Children have rights and they apply everywhere: at home, at school, in after-school care, on the playground or out and about in the city. But many children don't realise exactly what rights they have and how they can stand up for them. The colouring competition was intended to encourage people to talk about children's rights and empower the little ones.
The brochure is now being produced and will subsequently be displayed in local primary schools, after-school care centres, various public buildings in the city of Chemnitz, such as Moritzhof, Tietz and the town hall, as well as youth clubs.
1) Explanation: It was up to the children to decide which rights they wanted to focus on. The pupils in Chemnitz were also very concerned about the right to a clean environment, which is generally not counted among the ten most important children's rights. It is therefore included in the brochure as the eleventh children's right.