Laila McClaurin-Seamon

Date:4/17/18
Activism is when a person campaigns and does whatever they can to make the community around them a better place. Activism is important because the activist are doing what they love while helping the community making a change in their community. Three teens that are activist are Liza Yaroshenko, Marley Dias and Malala Yousafzai.
The first activist is Marley Dias, Marley started by finding the problem which was right in her school. When she was 11 she complained to her mother that all the she was reading was about white boys and dogs, she told her mom she didn’t have the freedom to read what she wanted o.She launched a campaign called #1000blackgirlbooks in 2015, with the goal to collect 1,000 books to donate for black girls.

Her two friends Briana and Amina joined her campaign, and they started to be called “BAM” in social media. The campaign also called public attention to the lack of diversity in children’s literature. They collected over 9,000 books. Many of these books have been sent to a children’s book drive in Jamaica. The second activist is Liza Yaroshenko.
She got started when she was just 15 years old. Last autumn President Viktor Yanukovych declared that tackling infectious diseases was a priority but the government allocated no funds in 2013 to fighting hepatitis and only 40% of the sum the president proposed for Aids and tuberculosis.That’s when Liza decided to speak out.
She speaks out on healthcare laws that hurt those affected by HIV and AIDS, as well as general HIV awareness. Liza was six years old when she lost her mother to Aids. Like tens of thousands of Ukrainians, Liza’s mother contracted HIV while injecting a cheap heroin substitute made of liquid poppy straw.In 2012, for the first time, there was a slight drop in the number of newly registered cases of HIV in Ukraine. And the last activist is Malala Yousafzai.
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education advocate who, at the age of 17, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban. She was born on July 12, 1997. She survived and has continued to speak out on the importance of education. In 2013, she gave a speech to the United Nations.
Malala highlighted her focus on education and women’s rights, urging world leaders to change their policies. Those teen activist are making a change in the world by giving books to little children or fighting for a cure of a deadly disease or just fighting for the education of young girls and boys. They are lots of teen activist in the world.