My Story
When I’m not cramming physics, you can catch me running outside, sipping coffee, or playing the piano! Being very passionate about sustainable development, I’m absolutely ecstatic about this initiative, and I look forward to gradually building our impact!
Over here’s a snippet of my story (about why I started YSW), incase you’re interested!
Born and having lived most of my life in Singapore, India was just the place I got to visit during my holidays.
Visiting friends and family, and getting special attention from grandparents meant that I only saw a “fun” India – lovely food, monuments and tourist spots. When we came back and settled here, the picture became multidimensional, with a lot of colour. There was the warmth of people – classmates offering help when they barely knew me, the feeling of home. There was also the evident poverty and inequality.
Vidushi Misra, Founder
Grade 12, Sanskriti School
Our large population meant that as a country we continuously faced challenges in having sufficient access to essential services like healthcare and education. It was also quite difficult for people to escape poverty no matter how hard they worked – because resources were limited. I gradually saw these problems becoming more severe during the pandemic.
Being aware of the disparity around me, I have tried to make an impact wherever I could, inside the school as well as in my community – even in small ways. Sustainability, well-being and our youth are areas I felt most passionate about.
Based on some relief work I did during the pandemic, as well as a research internship I did with NITI, I realised there was so much knowledge and opportunity around for high school students to be part of a movement to help our country progress.
We needed a platform that could bring together meaningful knowledge shared by current change-makers and experts, volunteering opportunities, and most importantly, a space for passionate high schoolers to voice their opinions, and ideas. I could only imagine how revolutionising it would be to have students getting the opportunity to learn from leaders, gain more insight on policy making, and even monitor the implementation of those policies on the ground to ensure, for instance, the supply of rations to families. I realised that now was the time for students like me to take ownership of our future. This is how the idea of Young SDG Warriors took shape.
In short, you could call this platform a one-stop solution to getting first-hand experiences and gaining knowledge about anything or everything related to sustainable development, through a variety of resources be it blogs, podcasts, debates and more.
We cannot create a more sustainable India without everyone’s contribution- especially the youth. Therefore, being future change-makers and leaders, it is all the more important for the youth to be involved in contributing toward sustainable development.
