Kehkashan Basu: Time for youth to take the lead, create future they want

Kehkashan Basu, in an address at the HFLD conference in Suriname, call on youths to take a leadership role and create the future they way. The conference was held Feb. 12 to 14.

Basu is the winner of the 2016 International Children’s Peace Prize.

The 18-year-old youth leader has been impacting the global fraternity with her work on children’s rights, promoting gender quality, mitigating climate change and social upliftment.