Bringing Youth to the (Round) Table
On Friday I attended a roundtable featuring young social entrepreneurs hosted by the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The event brought together teenagers from all over the country who are leading innovative philanthropic solutions to poverty. These attendees included Jaime Colman, who after a trip to Kenya discovered that the people of Karogoto desperately needed shoes and founded Walk Humbly in 2007. Jaime has collected over 4,000 shoes to bring for donation in Kenya. Connor Cress is another teenager from Georgia who read a 2006 World Vision publication about the plight of the poor in Africa and discovered that many children were so dehydrated they could not even cry. Connor then founded Dry Tears, a charity organization committed to funding of clean water projects in Africa.
These teenagers were quick to remind everyone present that to whom much is given much is asked, they are committed to solving issues of world poverty. They represent the power of youth in catalyzing change and the power of acting in solidarity to affect that change.
-Erin Kesler
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