Honor the work of young people between the ages of 8 and 16 all over the globe

2023 Award Conference 10AM PST

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These kids are 8-16 and quite amazing. Using their head, their heart, and making a difference. Streamed live 10AM PST today.

If only adults were as smart as an 8 year in age child what a wonderful world it would be.

Age 9
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
Green Eiha Smile Foundation

If you were to visit Eiha’s home, you would find it filled with seeds, saplings, and plants. Since the age of four, she has been growing saplings to protect the environment. She began her project alone, but when she found that other children wanted to join in, she founded the Green Eiha Smile Foundation. For 275 Sundays (till 15 Aug 2023), the group has planted and cared for more than 20,000 saplings, many of which have become trees, creating mini forests, parks, and green belts and providing shade and cleaner air in the Indian city where Eiha lives. The saplings are planted through the pot method which reduces water irrigation by up to 80 percent and promotes growth rate.

Eight-year-old Leo has captured a broad audience of all ages with his YouTube channel, Leo’s Animal Planet. With more than 1,100 subscribers and nearly 100,000 views, Leo’s very original and often humorous videos cover a diverse range of animals from sharks and falcons to cheetahs, dolphins, and bees.

When Steven (now 14 was 11 years old, he visited an organization in Israel called Sindyanna of Galilee and was inspired by the two founders, a Jewish woman, and a Muslim woman, working together as friends to foster community peace. He started filming a documentary called “Growing Peace in the Middle East,” to raise awareness about their latest project – building hydroponics systems in the homes of Arab women. Steven has developed, installed, and brought online four hydroponic systems – one at a food pantry for Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers in Tel Aviv, and three in New York City – at Dr. Topeka Sam's The Ladies of Hope Ministries (LOHM), a facility to help reintegrate formerly incarcerated women of color, at the YM/YHWA of Washington Heights which provides fresh produce for low-income and disabled seniors, and at the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center (which services up to 30,000 people) for their food pantry. The Tel Aviv hydroponics system feeds up to 600 families twice a month with over 2,100 servings of fresh food (25,200 servings per year), and the New York City towers produce up to 1,800 pounds of yearly produce and over 6,300 servings per year. Combined, Growing Peace’s hydroponic gardens produce over 31,500 servings per year to asylum seekers, formerly incarcerated women of color, and low-income/disabled seniors.