10th ANNIVERSARY OF CADIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

Competition for the Logo, lyrics of the Hymn and text of the official Prayer

On 1 December 2015, the CADIS International Foundation, already operating as CTF (Camillian Task Force), was legally registered in Italy as a non-profit humanitarian and development organisation of the Order of the Minister of the Infirms (Camillians). Next December 2025 marks the tenth anniversary of CADIS International.

CADIS has intervention programmes in disaster-prone countries such as India, Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Kenya, Haiti, Burkina Faso, Benin, Uganda, Tanzania, Peru, Chile, Brazil as well as in Italy and Poland.

It cooperates with the local church, when present, and with other humanitarian organisations around the world. In most of these countries, CADIS has strategic local offices and also works with local partner structures to ensure a timely, coordinated and organised response to emergencies.

The vision has always been the pursuit of fullness of life in resilient communities. Today, CADIS provides humanitarian, psycho-social, pastoral and development needs to populations affected by natural and other disasters, as well as long-term projects to build and empower the resilience of the affected communities. It is made up of lay people, religious and organisations who share its mission and respect the principles and teachings of the Camillian spirituality of serving the sick and suffering even to the point of risking their own lives.

To this end, CADIS International is organising a competition and wishes to invite the various realities that make up the large Camillian Family spread throughout the world, those who collaborate with it and all supporters of our mission to create the Logo, the lyrics of the Hymn and the text of the official Prayer for this Anniversary.

The logo, the lyrics and prayer must contain the Anniversary slogan: A decade of impact, a future of possibilities and must refer to the Anniversary theme “A Decade of Compassion and Empowerment: From Crisis Response to Building Resilient Communities”.

In addition, the logo, the lyrics and the text of the prayer will be admitted in the following manner:

1. LOGO

The logo must identify and summarise, in terms of communication, the vision and mission of CADIS International through the slogan A decade of impact, a future of possibilities. It should therefore have the following characteristics:

• must be original, unprecedented, developed specifically for the competition, aesthetically effective, easily distinguishable and adaptable to different dimensions, enlargeable or reducible, always maintaining its effectiveness on different sizes, surfaces and uses;
• should not infringe or violate the rights of third parties, including copyrights, trademarks, patents and any other intellectual property rights;
• must not contain any effigies or photographs or other identifying elements without authorisation;
• must be suitable or adaptable to any media used;
• must be reproducible while maintaining its effectiveness in any size, format and type of print;
• must contain the inscriptions: 2015-2025: A decade with CADIS;
• must be reproducible in four-colour, grayscale and black-and-white printing.

2. ANTHEM LYRICS

The lyrics of the hymn should contemplate and synthesise, in terms of communication, the vision and mission of CADIS International through the slogan A decade of impact, a future of possibilities. It should therefore have the following characteristics:

• must be presented in English; if in another language, provide the exact translation into English,
• must be syllabic, melodic and strophic,
• can consider the spiritual context and at the same time be in line with the times,
• must be original and unpublished,
• the composition must be poetic and the lyrics must consist of several stanzas,
• the stanza generally consists of three or four verses of eight syllables each and are identical in their metrical structure.
• those among the composers who can set their texts to music, let them do so. Otherwise, the CADIS Team will commission competent people to create music to the texts that will be selected.

3. TEXT OF THE PRAYER

The prayer should identify and summarise, in terms of communication, the anniversary of CADIS International through the slogan A decade of impact, a future of possibilities. It should therefore have the following characteristics:

• 
  must be brief in the whole and in any paragraphs,
• must be presented in English; if in another language, provide the exact translation into English,
• must reflect CADIS’ deep commitment and compassion with the most vulnerable,
• must also reflect the care of the heart, our Common Home, as inspired by Pope Francis Encyclical Laudato Si’.

4. RULES OF PROCEDURE

Any material that enters the competition:

1. must be received by the CADIS Team no later than 25th MAY 2025,
2. must not be published or otherwise disclosed before the official publication date set by the CADIS International Team,
3. must not be submitted to other events or competitions,
4. should be sent to the email address: anniversary@cadisinternational.org with the specific subject “CADIS Anniversary. Creation of Logo / Hymn / Prayer” according to what you submit and your full name in the text,
5. must contain the following:

For the Logo:

• a technical-descriptive report of the planned idea indicating the characteristics and explaining the logic and communicative intentions, in pdf format,
• colour logo table in high resolution jpg. format,
• greyscale logo table in high resolution jpg. format,
• black-and-white logo table in high resolution jpg. format,
• proof of logotype scalability: small 0.8×0.8 cm.; medium 3×3 cm.; large 10×10 cm,
• indication of colours in CMYK, RGB and optionally Pantone® format,
• indication of the fonts used and the body.

For the lyrics of the Hymn and the text of the Prayer
 

• a technical-descriptive report of the planned idea indicating the characteristics and explaining the logic and communicative intentions, in pdf format,
• texts in text document or word format, no pdf,
• text in English or, if in another language, the exact translation into English,
• the text must not bear the authors’ names,
• copy of an identity document in pdf format,
• the completed and signed data processing consent.

6. the submitted material will be kept until the winners of the competition are determined. The CADIS International Team for the 10th anniversary of the Constitution of CADIS International is expressly exempted from the obligation to return the materials received.
7. the Team reserves the right to request the authors to partially modify the Logo and/or the texts of the Hymn and Prayer to be translated for possible use on foreign markets.

N.B. These are indicative and not exhaustive targets. Consequently, Logo or Hymn and Prayer texts that do not correspond to the targets will be evaluated with and as all others.
 

GENERAL NOTE

By the very fact of participating in the competition, the authors selected for the 10th Anniversary of CADIS International attribute and assign to the CADIS International Team the rights and faculties described in the following list and, in relation thereto, irrevocably and expressly renounce, in favour of CADIS International, any and all rights to remuneration, consideration or claims, also with respect to third parties to whom CADIS International assigns the listed rights in whole or in part and for any reason, free of charge or against payment:

• Right of the first use through public performance for the opening of the Anniversary.
• Exclusive right to reproduce on discs, CDs, musical DVDs and on any other technological/digital support chosen and commercially exploit and distribute it in any form and manner throughout the world in the number that CADS International, in its unquestionable judgement, deems appropriate.

CADIS International is entitled to:

• Cede such reproduction and exploitation rights to third parties without the authors having any objection or claim to CADIS International or the selected third parties (except for the copyrights that shall be paid in the terms and with the modalities provided by law by S.I.A.E.).
• Set the selected lyrics to music.
• Reproduce or have reproduced by third parties, authorised by CADIS International, the songs (text and music; text or music) by means of printed paper (album or other form) and through any digital platform now existing or to be invented in the future, and the dissemination thereof.
• Reproduce or have reproduced by third parties the literary text and the musical parts, in the interest of the dissemination of the songs taking part in the event, in record covers, newspapers, magazines, discs, CDs, DVDs and on any other paper or technological/digital support.

CADIS International reserves the right to make any changes to these regulations that may be necessary for the Anniversary (December 1, 2025- December 1, 2026). 

Participation in the competition implies that the competitors formally accept these regulations in each of its articles.

CADIS Anniversary Commission