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The Compass: The Kids are Alright: The Kids are Alright: Opportunity

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The Kids are Alright: Opportunity

04/12/2019 GMT

The Kids are Alright

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The 18-year-old student who built a school and a 15-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur

The 18-year-old student who built a school and the 15-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur building a million dollar investment fund.

Mohamad Aljounde is an 18-year-old student in Sweden. He is a keen photographer, amateur film-maker, a Syrian refugee and winner of the 2017 International Children’s Peace Prize. When the war in Syria broke out, he and his family fled to Lebanon where they lived for years. Due to a shortage of money, and a lack of school places, Mohamad’s education came to a halt. So, when he couldn’t go to school, he did a remarkable thing - he helped build one, and that school is thriving, providing an education to other Syrian refugees. 

On the other side of the world, 15-year-old Taarini Kaur Dang is building a million dollar investment fund in Silicon Valley to try and maximise the social impact one entrepreneurial teenager can achieve.
  
What both these young adults have in common is a determination to grasp opportunities in the best and worst of circumstances.

The Compass: The Kids are Alright

Teenagers inspired to try and make a difference in the world around them.

Kids today: the lament of adults for generations. But throughout history, changes in society have been powered by youthful outrage and determination.  Today’s teenagers face a new landscape of dangers, stretching into the 2050s and beyond. This is their inheritance, and they have a clear incentive to improve it. 
  
In this three part series, The Kids Are Alright, Sandra Kanthal meets inspiring teenagers around the world working to make a difference in their communities and beyond.
 
This series will introduce you to, among others, youth reporters in South Africa trying to confront the rising tide of violence engulfing their neighbourhood; a Canadian teenager who has persuaded her government to spend millions to clean up a heavily polluted local river; and in Sweden, a young Syrian refugee working to improving the lives of hundreds of school age children in the camp in Lebanon where he lived for years.
 
Teenagers are often dismissed as too young to have an opinion and too inexperienced to make a difference.  But these young adults are passionate, articulate and determined. Their experiences may provide inspiration to others who are fighting to make their world a better place.

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