© Slovak Post, 2005 FIFIK is a magazine with cutout pictures that is distributed at primary schools in Slovakia. This publication has been working with Slovak Post on the promotion of Slovak postage stamps to children for more than three years. Interesting information regarding philately is communicated to children in an amusing way helping to increase their interest in stamp collecting. The mutual co-operation bore fruit as an idea to use a children picture from the prof. Karol Ondreička art competition ‘The Month of Children’s Works’ as the design for the 2005 children’s stamp. The competition is organised for physically and mentally handicapped children regardless of age and type of handicap. Every year thousands of drawings, paintings and 3D works of kids from special needs schools, children homes, hospital schools and special boarding schools are delivered to FIFIK, to the children’s charity Korytnačka Association, and SPP who participate in the organisation of the competition. A committee then evaluates the submissions of a high artistic standard. The late prof. Karol Ondreička was the long-standing chairman of the committee; he was succeeded by prof. Dušan Kállay. Over the seven-years of the competition, the committee has evaluated tens of thousands of children’s works created under the guidance of their teachers and parents. The themes and motives are changed every year. One of the most popular themes - which grasped children’s imagination immediately - was the design for a Slovak postage stamp. Individuals as well as whole class teams participated in this project. Out of the vast number of exhibited and awarded children’s paintings and drawings, the Realization Committee of Stamp Creation for Slovak Post selected the entry from Juraj Kiš, a pupil at an elementary school for kids with special needs.