The big problem of this world is that adults in it completely underestimate children. Because many do not even admit the idea that the child is able to change the course of history.
This is sure, and most children who are used to thinking that they are going to make great and serious business is still too early. But wait! Where is this written? If you have the desire and the opportunity to do something good, why not do it until you reach adulthood? How did the characters of our collection, for example!
1. Chester Greenwood
To change the world for the better is easy. For this and a simple discovery is enough. 15-year-old Chester Greenwood, for example, invented protective headphones. The guy just wanted to find a way to skate longer and not freeze. At first, their peers laughed at him. But soon the headphones appeared for everyone. Their advantages were appreciated, which brought a good income to Greenwood.
2. Bailey Madison
Most of his free time, Bailey devotes charity and "Alex Lemonade Foundation." This organization helps children create their own lemonade stands, with which they could raise funds for the treatment of cancer patients.
3. Chand Tandiv
This young activist is involved in the movement for youth education in Zambia. She became famous for her clear position and at the age of 16 she even received the "Children's Peace" award. Tandiv is convinced that every child should have free access to education, and is ready to defend this point of sight.
4. Emmanuel Ofos Yeboa
His story, to put it mildly, is sad. His father left the family when Emmanuel was still small. After a while his mother died, and the disabled boy was left an orphan. But instead of lowering his hands and becoming impoverished, Ofosu decided to go on a cycling tour of Ghana. So the guy wanted to show that disability is not a sentence. Quite quickly, Emmanuel became famous, and today he helps almost two million disabled people in Ghana.
5. Nkosi Johnson
This guy from South Africa was born with HIV. Annually with such a diagnosis about 70 thousand children appear. Many of them do not live up to the second birthday. Nkosi lived for 12 years, spoke at the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban in front of a 10-thousand audience and to death did everything possible to de-stigmatize AIDS so that infected children could receive education on a par with healthy peers.
6. Calvin Dow
A poor 15-year-old from Sierra Leone studied the engineering profession on his own and learned how to build generators from improvised materials. Kelvin also managed to build an FM-receiver, a battery for a flashlight and an audio mixer. Dow's achievements were so impressive to the teacher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that he invited the guy to give several lectures during the practice.
7. Margaret Knight
The work on her first invention, Margaret Knight began at the age of 12. The girl came up with a device that automatically disconnected the machines at the textile factory, if they started working incorrectly. A little later, Margueret invented a machine that glued wide bottoms in paper bags, and this changed the world abruptly.
8. Iqbal Masih
At the age of 10, Iqbal's mother, Masih, had to take his son into slavery to his employer as a debt. The boy tried to escape from this hard labor, but the corrupt police officers returned him to the "master." At the age of 12, Iqbal became the leader of the anti-slavery movement in Pakistan. Risking his life, he freed other children. Thanks to this kid, about 3 thousand slaves became free. To my great misfortune, after returning from a speech in the US, Iqbal was killed.
9. Winter Wineki
Winter Vineki set a goal - to run a marathon on every continent in memory of his father, who died of prostate cancer. And the girl achieved what she wanted before she turned 15 years old. Winter also managed to set the record and become the youngest runner, run all over the world.
10. Om Prakash Guryar
He fell into slavery at the age of five. After the guy finally released, Om began actively resisting slavery, drew attention to the problem of the government and representatives of the law. In addition, he helped children to receive free education, while Indian schools were charged for this.
11. Dylan Mahalingam
His first charity foundation Lil 'MDGs Dylan founded at the age of 9. The organization has helped more than 3 million children around the world in various matters. Makhalingam performed at the UN and won numerous awards.
12. Hector Peterson
13-year-old Hector in apartheid time shot a white policeman. In the photo, Peterson's brother brings the dying child to the shelter. This powerful snapshot quickly hit the pages of the most famous newspapers and magazines around the world and helped to influence the issue of racial discrimination.
13. Alexandra Scott
In childhood she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma. At 4, she created her own lemonade stand, which would help tell the ignorant population more about cancer. Having earned 2 thousand dollars, Alex founded her own fund, which later managed to collect more than a million. At the age of 8 the girl was gone, but her fund continues to help the needy.
14. Samantha Smith
In 1982, Samantha wrote a letter to the president of the Soviet Union - Yuri Andropov - because she did not understand the reasons for enmity between the USSR and the United States. The text of her message was published in Pravda, and Smith herself was invited to the USSR, where she spent two weeks visiting Moscow, Leningrad and Artek camp, met with Valentina Tereshkova and personally talked to Andropov, who was seriously ill at that time, on the phone. It's tragic, but at 13 the girl died in a plane crash.
15. Ryan Khrelyak
In the first grade, he learned that people in Africa have to travel miles to get some water that was not even clean. Then he decided to found a foundation to help solve this problem. "Ryan's Well" has become an organization dedicated to the delivery of clean water to people from Africa.
16. Easton LaShapelle
At the age of 14 he made his first prosthesis from Lego and fishing nets. A little later he perfected the invention using 3D printing technology. After learning about the achievements of LaShapel, the guy was invited to work at NASA in the Robonaut team.
17. Louis Braille
It is not hard to guess about his invention. This blind guy invented a tactile font for the blind. And Louis did it at the age of 12 - 15 years.
18. Cathy Stagliano
Cathy dreams of victory over hunger and to realize her dream into reality, founded an organization for growing food. For today in the USA about hundred gardens Stagliano prosper.
19. Anna Frank
During the Second World War, along with the family, Jewish woman Anna Frank hid from persecution in Amsterdam for two years. But in the end she was caught and sent to a concentration camp. Anna died in torment, but left behind something very important - her diary. Experiences and reflections the girls published in the press, and they helped the world learn the truth about life during the Holocaust.
20. Claudette Colvin
15-year-old Claudette opposed racial discrimination, because when she was asked to give way to a white woman on the bus - under the then laws, black people had to travel solely in the back of the transport - she flatly refused to do so. Colvin stated that it was her constitutional right to go where she wanted to go. Although Claudette was arrested then, her story attracted a lot of attention.
21. Riley Hebbard
At 7, she noticed one serious problem: in addition to dirt, stones and twigs, children in Africa had no toys. Then the girl founded her own fund Riley's Toys, which helps at least a little to brighten up the leisure of African children.
22. Blair Gooch
Blair was shocked by the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti. He was able to calm down, only embracing his beloved teddy bear. And Blair decided: since the bear helped him, he would help the victims of the disaster. Then about 25 thousand toys were sent to Haiti. Now the fund helps the victims not only with toys, but also supplies them with basic necessities.
23. Nicolas Lowinger
His mother worked in shelters for the homeless, and Nicholas often visited them. Having seen many unfortunates, the guy realized that most children do not have shoes. And to fix this, he founded his own fund Gotta Have Sole Foundation, where anyone can bring their worn (but in good condition, of course) or new shoes.
24. Cassandra Lin
She is a young ecologist and philanthropist. Founded by Cassandra, the TGIF (Turn Grease Into Fuel) fund recycles the fuel thrown out by restaurants into the fuel that representatives of the less well-off stratum of the population could afford to buy. Over a month, out of 113 different establishments, the organization manages to collect about 15,000 liters of fat.
25. Malala Yusufzai
The girl stands for the fact that girls in Pakistan should also receive education. In 2012, she was shot in the back of the head, but Malala survived. The attack did not frighten Yusufzai. On the contrary, after that, she began to actively speak at UN meetings, published a biography, received the Nobel Peace Prize and continued to fight for the rights of women to education.