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Each year, the International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (IF) presents the IF Award to an individual or organisation in recognition of the special contribution they have made to the service of people with disabilities in general or to people with Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida in particular.
The award itself is in the form of a bronze statue. It is designed and created for IF by the Belgian artist Pierre Mertens to replace the previous statue created by the Swedish artist Mr Olovson.
The current IF Award is a statue representing an Etruscan woman with a hole in her back and abdomen. It is representing both ‘the pregnancy in danger by prenatal diagnoses' as well as the ‘disability' represented by IF. The view through the body represents hope. It is a focused way of perceiving the world through the hole in the back of people.
An overview of the past IF awards
2008 Dr. Rob de Jong
2007 Flour Fortification Initiative 2006 Bo Hjelt 2005 Dr. Ben Warf 2004 Ryggmargsbrokk- og Hydrocephalusforeningen 2003 Geert Vanneste , CEO of CCBRT 2002 Björn Rundström 2001 Dr. Carla Verpoorten 2000 Hans Hoegh 1998 Guro Fjellanger 1997 Jim Begg from BLD 1997 Mami Kawasaki
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