An initiative of UNDP, to raise awareness about SDGs

STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Not only Faatiha Aayat is a writer, she is also a child rights activist and climate campaigner.

The US-based Bangladeshi recently recommended a 100 billion dollar fund from the developed nations -- to spend on Bangladesh’s sustainable adaptation to climate change -- as an impacted country of climate change.

She made the recommendations in an essay she wrote as part of a competition titled, “My goal for a better future”.

Faatiha won the first prize in the competition, jointly organised by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and The Daily Star to raise awareness on SDGs.

And she is only nine years old.

Yesterday, she was awarded in a ceremony at the capital’s IDB Bhaban, UNDP’s country office, along with two other awardees.

On behalf of her, her grandparents Mir Md Alamgir and Rashida Begum received the crest and Tk 6,000 as a token honorarium.

The other two awardees were -- Md Saiful Islam and Tanjila Ahmed. A total of 648 youths of different professions, with different personal goals, participated in the campaign.