To celebrate this occasion, a press conference was held recently at the auditorium of Dhaka Reporters' Unity. ATN Bangla Chairman Mahfuzur Rahman, Chief Adviser Saiful Bari, Vice President Nawajesh Ali Khan, the thinktank behind the documentary Rowshan Ara Nipa and UNICEF, Bangladesh spokesperson Rezwanul Alam attended the conference. The documentary was screened after the conference.

ICDB celebrates the second Sunday of every December with the slogan 'Tune in to Kids'. In a joint initiative, UNICEF and International Council of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and Broadcasters around the world air quality TV programmes for and about children.

Last year the team members of Amra Korbo Joy, a programme by children aired on ATN Bangla, made the documentary Amrao Pari depicting the theme 'We can be the Heroes'.

Amrao Pari is a brave story of Abul Khair, a 9 year-old whiz kid, who saved thousands' lives from a possible train accident in 1996 applying his own intelligence. While roaming about the rail tracks, the boy suddenly discovered that the lines were dislocated at a place. And to his utter horror he found that a train was visible at distance. Khair heard that a 'red signal' stops trains. So, he collected a red piece of cloth, tied it on top of a stick, and started waving it to attract the attention of the drivers on the train. Fortunately, they saw the boy and stopped the train. Thus, a large number of train passengers were saved on that day.

Apparently the boy's conscience made him do this. After that incident he was promised many rewards by different government and non-government organisations. But, as fate would have it, everyone has almost forgotten him. However, ATN Bangla has come forward and included Khair into the ATN family.

In 2003, the group of Amra Korbo Joy, comprised of a group of teenage boys and girls, planned to do a documentary on Abul Khair. The team went to Chandpur to find the boy. 'After a prolonged search when we got Khair, we found him working with a welding machine which is a very risky job for any children', said Nipa, the director of the documentary, at the press conference.

Interestingly, everything related to the making of the documentary was perfectly done by the children: Robiul Islam Raju and Khairul Amin Nahin on camera, Riaz Kaiser on video editing, and Fatima Akhter and Dipankar Shekhar as the anchors.

Apart from Amrao Pari, the other three nominees are The Ideal World in Children's Eyes from China, Every Child has the Right to Education from Laos, and International Children's Day of Broadcasting Special from Kenya. The winners of the ICDB award will be announced at the 32nd International Emmy Awards Gala that will take place in New Work on November 22.