They're doing and achieving so much more than I even thought was possible when I was that young. Say what you will, but there are some decided upsides to a world with faster technology and more information flowing fast and free.
Today's Illumination is about Sakshi Satpathy, a 16-year-old Girl Scout who is being recognized with the National Gold Award from the Girl Scouts for her work on an initiative she created called Project GREET. It's an initiative meant to both raise awareness about human trafficking and other human rights violations and provide resources to help rehabilitate victims of human trafficking, among others. She did this by seeing there was a problem, recognizing one possible piece that she could help resolve (namely, the lack of awareness about the human rights violations happening around the world), and finding a way to fill that gap.
In Sakshi's case, filling that gap meant learning how to shoot and edit video and conduct interviews, among many other skills. I imagine that will be useful in whatever next steps she takes - she told NPR in that interview that she didn't know what she wanted to major in in college, but whatever she does she'll keep advocating against child marriage and human trafficking. That kind of activism and determination helps to give me some hope moving forward.
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