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Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 3 January 2003. She is an environmental activist who worked to address the problem of climate change. She learned about the issue when she was only eight years old and she decided to change her own habits, such as becoming a vegan and refusing to travel by plane, because both livestock and planes emit a large amount of the gases that contribute to global warming. For almost three weeks before the Swedish election in September 2018, she missed school to sit outside the country’s parliament with a sign that read “Skolstrejk för Klimatet” (School Strike for Climate). Although she was alone on the first day, more and more people joined her each day, and her story gained international attention. After the election Thunberg returned to school but continued to skip classes on Fridays to strike, which she called “Fridays for Future”. Her action inspired hundreds of thousands of students around the world to participate in their own “Fridays for Future.” Thunberg received numerous invitations to speak about climate change and she gave speeches in several countries. In addition to her environmental work, Thunberg was credited with raising awareness about Asperger and inspiring those who had the disorder.

Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12 1997 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. She is a Pakistani activist known for defending women's human rights and access to education in her home region. In 2008, when she was 11 years old, she and other girls were forced to abandon school, when the Taliban took control of her town in Swat Valley. Her activism made her a target of the Taliban and the victim of an attack in 2012. On her way home for school, a masked gunman boarded her school bus and asked, “Who is Malala?”, and then shot her in the left side of the head. Fortunately she survived and, in 2014, she received the Nobel Peace Prize.