2024 winner
Adior Kuer Bul
South Sudan
Adior is a South Sudanese young leader from Kakuma Refugee camp, Kenya. Though experiencing the uncertainty of a refugee's life, she continues to focus on empowering girls to continue their education. Adior’s Rise project was co-founding an organization BITT( Be Informed to Transform and Transcend) whose mission is to end child marriage. She conducted interviews with local community members and is proposing the implementation of a Biometric system of Verification called the Ethic Code to introduce measures to eradicate early and forced marriages. She hopes to continue to advocate, tell stories, and create awareness about the plight of refugees. She futuristically refers to herself as "The mustard seed of hope that will provide refugees with shade and fruits."