Today’s youth get a fair bashing from the media these days.
If they aren’t tweerking, or roof-topping or posting topless selfies online we don’t really hear about them do we?
Well here is something we should hear about.
At the age of fifteen, Mariah Kennedy was lying in her bed at boarding school wondering how to make a difference in the world.
Yes, you read that right.
She was WONDERING HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
And you know what – she did.
As simple as that.
And last night at an awards ceremony in Sydney she was celebrated for that – winning the Young People’s Human Rights Medal for 2013.
Mariah Kennedy spoke of that night in her bed at Victoria’s Geelong Grammer School when she looked around the room at all her friends and she decided to create a book about issues that mattered to young people.
So she approached some of Australia’s best loved children’s authors and illustrators for contributions to the book.
And the response was overwhelming.
It addresses social justice issues such as child labour, refugee rights and global poverty. The book Reaching Out, Messages of Hope was published with all proceeds going to UNICEF.
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Geelong GRAMMAR school..................of all the words to spell incorrectly. Yikes.