16-year-old wins children’s peace prize for the fight against climate change – NOS

Kehkashan Basu was eight years old when she everyone warned to take action against climate change. She planted her first tree and went along with other children, waste collection and recycling in her neighborhood in Dubai.

A few years later, the 12 year old was she when she founded the ‘Green Hope’, which she is working on a sustainable future. “We must act now, otherwise we’re left with polar bears under palm trees,” says the 16-year-old Basu.

She got Friday afternoon from the hands of Muhammed Yunus, nobel prize winner in 2006, the children’s peace prize award. Her organization now has 1000 volunteers in ten different countries, almost 5000 trees have been planted. The aim of the climate change and soil erosion to counteract.

According to Kids Rights, the organization that is the

price issue, it is a good environment is important to the children’s rights compliance. So would three million children die every year of diseases by a bad environment.