Simran Vedvyas
Age 17 – United Arab Emirates
Simran Vedvyas, is only 17, has reached out, influenced & benefitted thousands to serve humanity & environment beyond boundaries. She finds herself continuously self-motivated to ‘dreaming large and achieving big’. As a responsible global youth citizen, advocating taking simple steps, Simran, has led over 70 successful youth engagement campaigns- including ‘Green Space New Life’: 3,000 trees planted at landfill sites across UAE, & ‘Convoy to Feed’ that witnessed food supplies given to over 2,000 workers at various landfills. She has been recognized at home & abroad for her academic & humanitarian achievements. Her Belief that ‘Youth are the Future Champions Today!’ was featured by MTV voices on International Youth Day 2013, for 100 hours at Times Square, NY, USA. She is also the youngest panellist at United Nations Headquarters discussing ‘Youth Migration the Development Forward’, the theme of the International Youth day 2013.
At 12, she campaigned & collected more than 3,000 pairs of shoes that were distributed in Kenya & Uganda through US aided AMPATH, to the diabetic patients in Africa & Middle East. After, she was chosen to carry the Olympic Flame at the London Olympics in 2012, she moved forward with her social & environmental work & never looked back.