Below you will find the results of my research regarding young people
who are doing outstanding service for their country.
Gerson Andrés Flórez Pérez - Colombia
Gerson Andrés Flórez Pérez was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize at age 16.
?At age 16, Gerson Andrés Flórez Pérez has already dedicated his life
to achieving peace in his home country of Colombia. He has been
nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and honored for his years of work
for peace in Colombia and in the world. Currently he is attending law
school at The Universidad Nueva Granada in Bógota.?
?Pérez and the Children's Movement for Peace were nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, a few years after being awarded the
National Peace Award from a pool of nominees that included bishops,
NGOs and community leaders. Over the years Perez has met with three
Latin American presidents, various ministers and ambassadors, Queen
Noor of Jordan, Netherland´s Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize
Laureates Rigoberta Menchú and Jody Williams. Pérez was the first
child to speak before the Colombian Congress.?
My Hero
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=gerson_perez
Gerson Perez's Home Page
http://gerson.colnodo.org.co/
More about Gerson
http://gerson.colnodo.org.co/english/whois.htm
Gerson Features in UK School Text Book
?Gerson features in a new publication to be used by British pupils in
year 6, called 'What A Hero!' Alongside peacemakers of the 20th
century, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Gerson
is named as "a peacemaker of the 21st."
?Harper Collins Publishers included Gerson and the Colombian children
as an example of heroes who work for peace and human rights despite
their age and the difficult situations in their countries. Over two
pages, Gerson's work for peace is described focusing on his reasons,
his means and the future of his work.?
World Voices
http://www.worldvoices.no/eng/project/colombia/270202.asp
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Craig Kielburger -CAnada
Toronto teenager Craig Kielburger at age 12 founded the organization
Free the Children. In just five years it's become the world's largest
network of its kind, involving more than a hundred thousand young
people in 27 countries.
WCAL
http://www.wcal.org/archives/audio/peace.html
You can read more about Craig Kielburger?s at the Free the Children
website at the following link.
http://www.freethechildren.org/cultures/heroes/craig.html
Free the Children
http://www.freethechildren.org/
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Leonora Shiroka - Kosovo
?Leonora Shiroka, Age 17, President of the PostPessimists. Leonora
"Nora" Shiroka will be accepting the award on behalf of the
PostPessimists group. Nora joined the group when she was 14 years old
and became President last year at 16. One of the socially concious
projects she has been involved with through the PostPessimists Group
is CHILDREN TO CHILDREN, in conjunction with Children's Aid Direct. It
is a project in which Nora and other members of the group go to high
schools and talk with young people about alcohol and drug abuse, and
family problems. Nora is also the guiding influence behind the GOLDEN
HAND project. Nora organized this project for young refugees displaced
from the war-torn zone of Drenica. They produce theater performances,
artwork with paper, and computer workshops. It has been highly
successful and often these young children a respite from the ravages
of war that still surround them. In her short term with the group,
Nora has spread a lifetime's worth of generosity and compassion.?
Global Youth
http://www.y2kyouth.org/Global/award03.html
?PostPessimists are young people whose activities are directed towards
the improvement of the mutual communication, like the spreading of the
idea of democracy, human rights, non-violent communication and
encouraging the creativity of the former Yugoslavia youth.?
http://www.ppbih.net/eng/
?It began during the war in 1995, with a Kosovo Albanian and a Kosovo
Serb who refused to hate each other despite the ethnic hatred all
around them. They gathered with Albanian and Serbian friends in a
small, old house in Prishtina to talk about peace. Because they "saw
no reason yet to be optimists and did not want to surrender to
pessimism either," they called themselves the PostPessimists.?
Read more about Leonora Shiroka here:
http://myhero.com/myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=postpessimists
Amazing Kids
http://www.amazing-kids.org/kids11-00.htm
Search criteria:
Teenagers peace +community
Child heroes
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