The prize is awarded for the eleventh consecutive year. Last year, the award went to journalist, lecturer and warm-up Joanna Halvardsson for her work in spreading knowledge about NPF diagnoses.

"Commitment and compassion"

Lars Lerin receives the Award of Fire of the Year 2019 for his program "Lerins apprentices" in SVT where young people with disabilities are allowed to develop their creativity.

The motivation reads:

For this fire soul it is never about doing good, but just about doing what is natural. To believe in people's talent and to release their abilities - because it is smart, enriching and good for everyone. Because it's obvious.

With commitment and compassion, the fire soul spreads a heat that makes other people grow, burn and develop as human beings. An engagement that gets infected and reaches all the way home in the cabins.

- Strange that you should be given a price for socializing with people who are different. I haven't done much more than this TV thing. I enjoy getting along with my apprentices. I am a fire seal in my work, says Lars Lerin to SVT Nyheter Värmland.

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