The Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND) recently announced three cash awards for street children projects in Cambodia, South Africa and Ghana.

The AGFUND prize committee approved the projects in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Nov. 26. Mercedes Menafra de Batlle, a member of the committee, chaired the meeting on behalf of Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz, the AGFUND president.

In a statement, the committee said the first category prize of $200,000, allocated for projects by the United Nations, international or regional organizations, went to the Child Safe Network Project in Cambodia by the Friends International organization.

The second category prize of $150,000, for projects by non-governmental organizations, was awarded to the Kids Haven Child and Youth Care Center in South Africa.

The fourth category prize of $50,000, for environmental projects, went to the Recycle Not a Waste Initiative (RECNOWA) in Ghana by social entrepreneur Kwaku Kyei.

The third category prize of $100,000, for projects by government and public institutions, was withheld because the submissions did not meet the prize conditions.

The committee also approved the Marketing of Homemade Products as a category for the AGFUND International Prize in 2014.

The committee declared the three winners from among 105 projects submitted for the award representing 61 countries on four continents.

The prize committee membership comprises a number of renowned world figures including de Batlle, the former first lady of Uruguay and president of the Honor of the All for Uruguay non-governmental organization; Ahmed Mohamad Ali, president of the Islamic Development Bank; Muhammad Yunus, founder and president of the Grameen Bank, chairman of the Yunus Center and Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2006; and Y. S. Abdulai, former director general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund for International Development.