This weeks women of the week is Kehkashan Basu! When she was 12, Kehkashan started Green Hope, an organization that runs activities like tree planting and beach and mangrove cleanups. “When I first moved here from the United Arab Emirates, I went to the lakeshore and was taken aback by the amount of litter that had washed ashore. Since then I’ve conducted quite a few clean-ups.” Green Hope started with just five of Kehkashan’s friends in 2012. Since then, the organization has engaged more than a thousand young people across 10 countries—a feat for which she won the 2016 International Children’s Peace Prize.
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