Earth Day 2023 - Our Youth Champion Voices
“For me, investing in the 🌏 means, investing in a healthier, safer & more susatinable future for everyone,” says @dr.poorvaprabha.patil...
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Meet Yvvette Selly Awiti, Youth Ambassador for #IAHW from Kenya
”I believe that youth and adolescents have what it takes to advocate for their health rights. My desire to see health disparity gaps...
Meet Lou Lambert, @loulambert_99, a patient advocate from London, UK
“I got involved in youth advocacy because of my own personal experience of being a young person diagnosed with a chronic condition. I was...
Meet Patrick Heri, Youth Ambassador for #IAHW2023 from Musanze, Rwanda.
“When I was in secondary school, my cousin was abused by an older man. She didn’t even know about menstrual periods. She became pregnant...
Meet Wacha Roosevelt, Youth Ambassador for #IAHW2023, from Bamenda, Cameroon.
“As a teacher with five years of experience, I've seen too many of my students forced to drop out of school due to unplanned pregnancies...
Meet Seher Taneja, innovator, researcher and entrepreneur from New Delhi, India
“Indians face a myriad of challenges, ranging from health to sanitation and from transportation to the environment. Growing up in a...
Meet Felicia Annan-Mills, Youth Ambassador for #IAHW from Accra, Ghana
“While studying for my undergraduate, I got the opportunity to intern at a family health clinic in Ghana where I worked on a health...
Meet Wawira Njiru, the founder of Food 4 Education - Kenya
While she had access to good food, a comfortable home and good schools as a child, she saw all around her t he impact on those children...
Sheila Yegon, from Nairobi, is a member of the Organisation of the African Youth Kenya
"I was a shy teenager, new to humanitarian work, when I started to volunteer for OAY Kenya. But I have grown so much in confidence that I...
Meet Kehkasha Sheik from Delhi, an activist with The YP Foundation in India!
When I was 17, I discovered The YP Foundation's project about rights and equality, and I thought, "This is perfect for me!" I started as...
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