The Ocean Hero Rises: ‘Stop Feeding the Trash Monster!’
Pyur…pyur… pyur… The sound of waters pounding in the ocean. Two little fish swim in a blue clear ocean. “Hey, dude! How is it going?” says one little...
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Malala Yousufzai: “The People of Pakistan need me”
Malala. The first ‘International Day of the Girl Child’ resonated with one name and a vision so powerful no one could have imagined. Still, whatever you have...
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Mayerly Sanchez Clavijo: A Child of War, Building Peace
Gang wars, drug wars, civil war—Colombia has known conflict and destruction for 40 years. Right now the country’s strongest voices against violence belong to...
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Books With No Bounds
When we learned First Nation Children were 3 to 4 years behind in literacy skills… that children in these communities did not have access to books in their...
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Ta’Kaiya Blaney (10) Speaks and Sings up for Canada’s Pristine North
Ten-year-old Ta’Kaiya Blaney stood outside Enbridge Northern Gateway’s office on July 6, waiting for officials to grant her access to the building. She thought she...
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Youth and Radio: Bringing Heart to the Airwaves
“I do not think that the wireless waves … will have any practical application.” Heinrich Hertz (when he was asked about his experiments with radio...
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Namasté Nepal, student-run Social Business
These young people from Freiberg, in Eastern Germany, show what a 21st century school can be like. Besides the normal classroom learning, a dozen youth have joined the...
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Ethan King – Charity Ball
“The happiness that a child feels while holding a ball is something which most of us would have seen and experienced.” Undoubtedly a ball is the most...
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William Kamkwamba, 14. Wind Energy for Malawi!
“I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields. It was the future I couldn’t accept.” What would you do? Find out what a Malawi village kid did. You might...
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Ping Ping Wokarate. Peace Revolution!
Don’t you ever wish for a peaceful world? Yes, of course I think all of us do. How and where should we start? Maybe after watching this video, you will have an idea...
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Harnoor Gill: Volunteer Virtuoso
When most kids his age were obsessed with video games, cartoon heroes, and Barbie dolls, and only thought about buying the next PlayStation series gaming console,...
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Skateistan Afghanistan – for Confidence and PEACE
Talk about positive change efforts in the face of daunting challenges, Skateistan Afghanistan broke through all the barriers of a war torn society, non availability of...
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Kimmie Weeks. Liberating Child Soldiers.
“I saw the mission and ultimate goal that we had to achieve as greater than myself. I put it ahead of my own life and personal safety. It wasn’t about me. It...
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Hassan Saeed. 100-Day Literacy Programs to Empower Pakistani Village Youth
DAWN is truly overpowering DUSK in the villages of Pakistan. Amidst poverty and a life which many consider useless, there are hundreds of children whose gaping eyes...
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Youth dreamers true story- ‘YUWA’
Nobody really knew back in 2005 when few committed Nepalese youths gathered in a tea shop and gave a shape to YUWA that later became one of the break through...
Read MoreAnuradha K. Bhagwati building stepping-stones towards the transformation of military culture
Before we talk about what she has accomplished, let’s talk about the kind of person she is. Anu joined the Marine Corps in 1999, fresh out of college, mostly as a...
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Phebe Meyers – Bird Whisperer & Rainforest Saviour
How about protecting some rainforest by raising $165,000 through schools? Phebe has done it. The wise world out there thinks young people are naive and inexperienced....
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Actioneers. In touch with the Underprivileged in Bangladesh
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most prominent leaders of all time and a social activist once said, ‘Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You...
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Robin Bryan, the diehard protector of East Shore Wilderness Area in Manitoba, Canada
When Robin realized that so much of the wildlife, parks and public land in Manitoba were endangered due to unsound industrial practices, he made up his mind to stand up...
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Jessie-Ruth Corkins: Vermont’s sustainable energy initiator
High school science fairs are usually limited to soda volcanos, the life cycle of a butterfly and the tending of plants through different circumstance. But at Mount...
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Christina Wong carries out a fulfilling mission on Conservation & Urban Ecosystem
Conserving environment involves everything, like, rivers, forests, mountains, and wide-open spaces. Of course our cities and urban centers are also connected to the...
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Zander Srodes: Let’s Share the Beach with Sea Turtles
When he was merely eleven years of age, Zander Srodes, a native of Placida, Florida, knew what he wanted to do with his life and set about giving time and effort to a...
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Billy Parish – Fighting Climate Change
It’s 2012. Countless people have predicted the doomsday, the day when the world will get submerged in the water, leaving no one alive. How much of it is true, is yet...
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IIT Kharagpur students using their skills to foster developments through AARAMBH
When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person...
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SYINC: A Great Helper of the Youth in Singapore
When it was founded in 2008, who would have thought that SYINC would one day be like the right hand to the energetic and passionate youths being a part of it? Yes!...
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Gaukhar Yerezhepova – Clean Air for Kazakhstan
2011 is the United Nations International Year of Forests (find more online: Forests, 2011 at www.un.org). So, with a good part of the year already over, how much do...
Read MoreWeirdest Way of Charity run by TV Host Leon Logothetis’ US Cab Trip
Meet the coolest Weirdo on the face of the planet: Leon Logothetis. Let’s read about his different, interesting and ‘cool’ way of charity. Happy Reading,...
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Sushil Koirala- Campaigning for Peace
Nepal has offered much hope to the world throughout history. The birthplace of the Buddha himself, it has since been a place of global pilgrimage for people from all...
Read MoreCity Map that Changes Lives of the Poor: TRANSPARENT CHENNAI
Here is a fascinating story of an on-going project in the city of Chennai, India where a group of people conducting research about civic issues for the well-beings of...
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Sharon Smith. Building a Green, Healthy Movement!
How exactly can we acquire the knowledge that is needed for making our planet healthier and greener? Where to kick-start our personal campaign for a sustainable green...
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Peggy Liu making China greener through JUCCCE
Today let’s hear about a woman who has the courage to stand up and do great things for the Earth: Peggy Liu. She is the Chairperson of JUCCCE (Joint US-China...
Read MoreRuralLight:Bringing Light to the Villages in the Philippines
RuralLight is a youth-led social enterprise of the Philippines that is trying to empower off-grid rural communities of the country in pursuing sustainable solutions in...
Read MoreBABAR ALI – World’s Youngest Headmaster making remarkable changes in India
Babar Ali must be the youngest headmaster in the world. As he is only 16! He’s a teenager who is in charge of teaching hundreds of students in his family’s backyard,...
Read MoreSohini Chakraborty of Kolkata heals victims through dance
Sohini Chakraborty, the changemaker has developed a unique, multifaceted rehabilitation process, which involves therapy, empowerment, education, capacity building,...
Read MoreSohini Chakraborty of Kolkata heals victims through dance
Sohini Chakraborty, the changemaker, has developed a unique, multifaceted rehabilitation process, which involves therapy, empowerment, education, capacity building,...
Read MoreDr. Minal Singh: A True Changemaker for Health Education in Rural India
Dr. Minal Singh is an extraordinary social entrepreneur working for the Drishtee Foundation a social enterprise focused exclusively on rural India. She has worked...
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XuanThu Pham is the name of an inspirational Business Leader
Today lets talk about a beautiful woman with brain; Meet the talented, artistic, creative, passionate, philanthropist XuanThu Pham. YL volunteer Mylene tells the...
Read MoreTeam ‘Charred!’ of Nepal for Environment Conservation promoting Bio-Char
As the trouble of soil degradation, infertility and excessive use of fertilizers were gaining its pace, few school students from Brihaspati Vidyasadan saw vision to...
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Cambodian Children’s Trust: Giving the Children of Cambodia a Second Chance at their Dreams
A single journey can change the course of a life. Or in this case many lives. That is the impact Tara Winkler’s journey in 2005 to Battambang, Cambodia had on her life...
Read MoreTalia Leman,the not so Random Kid, did it all for Philanthropic causes
In the day and age when children get depressed about not owning a playstation, a Nintendo Wii, an Xbox and an i-phone because “all their friends have one”, there was...
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