Preda Award

Meteor Music Gives Humanitarian Award to PREDA.

PREDA has been awarded the Ireland Humanitarian Award from Meteor Music in recognition of the importance of their work in combating child abuse, trafficking and sexual exploitation of minors and youth. On St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2009, the award will be presented to Columban Fr. Shay Cullen.

A few of the previous winners of this award were: Sir Elton John for his AIDS foundation; Christina Noble for her work with street children in Vietnam and Mongolia; Bono who donated it to Goal and Concern; Sister Stanislaus Kennedy for her work with immigrants and children in Ireland; Adi Roche for her work with the children of Chernobyl.

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