
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Mohamad Aljounde is an 18-year-old student in Sweden. He is a keen photographer, amateur film-maker, a Syrian refugee and winner of the 2017 International Children’s Peace Prize. When the war in Syria broke out, he and his family fled to Lebanon where they lived for years. Due to a shortage of money, and a lack of school places, Mohamad’s education came to a halt. So, when he couldn’t go to school, he did a remarkable thing - he helped build one, and that school is thriving, providing an education to other Syrian refugees.
On the other side of the world, 15-year-old Taarini Kaur Dang is building a million dollar investment fund in Silicon Valley to try and maximise the social impact one entrepreneurial teenager can achieve.
By BBC World Service4.6
9898 ratings
Mohamad Aljounde is an 18-year-old student in Sweden. He is a keen photographer, amateur film-maker, a Syrian refugee and winner of the 2017 International Children’s Peace Prize. When the war in Syria broke out, he and his family fled to Lebanon where they lived for years. Due to a shortage of money, and a lack of school places, Mohamad’s education came to a halt. So, when he couldn’t go to school, he did a remarkable thing - he helped build one, and that school is thriving, providing an education to other Syrian refugees.
On the other side of the world, 15-year-old Taarini Kaur Dang is building a million dollar investment fund in Silicon Valley to try and maximise the social impact one entrepreneurial teenager can achieve.

7,770 Listeners

377 Listeners

891 Listeners

1,068 Listeners

5,465 Listeners

1,826 Listeners

591 Listeners

283 Listeners

301 Listeners

1,811 Listeners

1,049 Listeners

2,104 Listeners

2,073 Listeners

481 Listeners

109 Listeners

267 Listeners

401 Listeners

228 Listeners

845 Listeners

76 Listeners

480 Listeners

985 Listeners

3,224 Listeners

751 Listeners

1,044 Listeners