Vietnam War's 'Napalm Girl' to be awarded Dresden Peace Prize

 Kim Phuc Phan Thi, the woman who for nearlyfive decades has been known as the "Napalm Girl" from a PulitzerPrize-winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War, is set to beawarded the Dresden Peace Prize for her activism on Monday.The well-known photo by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut showsKim Phuc - who now resides in Canada - at the age of 9 running nakedon a road after being severely burned on her back by a SouthVietnamese napalm attack in 1972.The Dresden Peace Prize, awarded annually since 2010 in the city'sfamed Semperoper opera house, includes 10,000 euros (11,300 dollars),which will flow into Kim Phuc's foundation supporting schools,orphanages and medical facilities in different parts of the world. "When I am alone, I avoid the image," Kim Phuc told dpa in referenceto the photograph that catapulted her into the public eye. "But Iknow that it allows me to work for peace, and that is my vision."