Age: 17
It’s easy to say that education and learning should be inclusive and accessible to all. Tareef Mahmud has taken the substantially more difficult step to do something about it. As co-founder of Education Collective YYC, he’s made certain that free tutoring is available to any child who needs or wants it, helping them discover themselves and their potential. As part of the Calgary Public Library’s former Teen Think Tank program, he helped shape programming and volunteered with library programs like Make It Messy: Science, Reading Buddies and Coding Buddies. He has tutored children struggling with literacy through The Sunflower Education Organization and has helped seniors learn to use computers through the MPC Foundation’s Seniors’ Technology Learning program.
“Young people can make change, too, [and] being able to motivate youth in their childhood and when they’re younger is what gives them the drive for the future.”
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