Ibrahim Kondeh uses the words he once wrote for company during his dangerous journey from Sierra Leone to Italy to advocate for the rights of other migrant and refugee children and adolescents.
Baurzhan was the first teenager in Kazakhstan to publicly share his HIV-positive status. He has established a support group for other young people living with HIV, and actively advocates for the rights of all children whose health conditions often come with a social stigma attached.
Maria Alexandrova became Bulgaria's first adolescent living with cerebral palsy to take the prestigious Cambridge Assessment in English. Her advocacy led to the local exam centre agreeing to change the timing of the test and let her use a computer.
Mariam Papoyan is a passionate advocate for student-centered education. Now, aged 18, she campaigns for curricula that prepares students for the 21st century workplace.