YOUTHTOPIA

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Kavya, 18, is an Ashoka Young Changemaker and a Diana Award Recipient. Kavya is demonstrating a new means of environmental education and action for young people. With the experience of volunteering for a river cleaning drive, Kavya realised the need for environmental education to be more experiential and focussed on mindset, and not just on bookish concepts. He started Bhavishya Foundation, with a team of 12 members that creates these learning journeys by continuously engaging young people in various activities like tree and food forest plantations. As of Dec 2020, the team along with more than 50 volunteers, have taught more than 2000 children and planted nearly 3000 saplings through plantation drives in Uttar Pradesh. This vision of enabling more young people to lead change has been central to his journey. In the future, He aims to integrate experiential and environmental education in the Indian Education System, so that school students are raised to be empathetic towards the environment, and our future has more citizens who are acting on environmental issues. He believes this is the only way to win the battle against climate change.