Screenshot of Fatemah and Bana Alabed talking with reporters during their evacuation on December 19, 2016. Image courtesy Qasioun News Agency on YouTube. Born in 2009, Bana al-Abed is a Syrian refugee whose experiences of the Syrian Civil War in Aleppo drew...
BackBuddy / Ayakha Melithafa (Pictured on the left) In 2018, then 16-year-old Ayakha Melithafa began to question why drought was so bad in her country and, especially, her hometown – a small farming town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The daughter of a...
Artemisa Xakriaba is a teenage indigenous climate activist who is fighting to protect the Amazon and indigenous land. She belongs to the Xakriaba tribe in Brazil who have faced the deforestation of their territories by the government and have suffered from the huge...
Picture via Free Periods Amika George is the founder of the the #FreePeriods campaign. The campaign fights for the UK Government to supply low-income children with menstrual products. A graduate of Cambridge University originally from north London, Amika George...
As the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman was already known prior to her US Inauguration Day poetry reading. But “The Hill We Climb” launched her into the stratosphere. Former First Lady Michelle Obama called Gorman a “poet...
Amal Azzudin is an Egyptian-Scottish social justice activist. She co-founded the Glasgow Girls, a group of seven young women who fought against the harsh treatment that asylum seekers faced. The group was formed in response to the detention of one of their friends, in...
