• Youth
• Activism
• Hope

Everything started a couple of months ago, when I’ve enrolled in Global Citizenship course. Throughout the semester, we’ve been exploring the themes of Humanity’s Golden Peace. While working with Sofiia Koziuk and Jason He on our final project “Echoes of Earth: A Journey Through the Voices of Nature”, we focused don the importance of not only the absence of of violence but the harmony of the world. With this project, initially, I wanted to convey the idea that the connection between human and nature is the building block of the global peace. When my team started developing our ideas into the project, it combined the art, powerful language, and diversity all on one, paper trifold. This project demonstrates that even the smallest living beings that we often ignore, contributes to our ecosystem and is an important part of it. One of the most exciting parts of this course was our final event, where along with all of my classmates, we would have to organize and event and showcase all the projects of ours. I was blessed to be the coordinator and to have an opportunity to connect with all of my classmates and unite our ideas into one- to show what we’ve learnt and what our stance on global peace is.
Message to the future change-makers:
Start exactly where you are. Our project began with three students, some markers, and a belief that nature's voice matters. Your tools might be different, maybe code, or music, or science, but what matters is that you begin. Don't wait for permission to make change. Whether it's protecting a bullied classmate or defending an endangered species, every act of courage creates difference. The Golden Peace we dream of isn't some distant future, it's being built right now, by ordinary people choosing to see and honor the connections between all living things. Your contribution matters. After all, even the mightiest forests grow from forgotten by the squirrel seeds.