International Children’s Peace Prize winner and Nobel social activism medal recipient Chaeli Mycroft delivered a keynote address on Sunday evening, setting the tone for Rhodes University’s 2013 Human Rights Week.
International Children’s Peace Prize winner and Nobel social activism medal recipient Chaeli Mycroft delivered a keynote address on Sunday evening, setting the tone for Rhodes University’s 2013 Human Rights Week.
In her public lecture Mycroft, who began her groundbreaking campaign work for children with disabilities when she was just nine years old, focused on disabled people’s right to access education.
She became the youngest ever finalist in the Shoprite Checkers / SABC 2 Woman of the Year Award at 10 years old in 2005 for her work with the Chaeli Campaign.
She founded the Campaign in 2004 with four other young girls to raise R20 000 for her motorised wheelchair.
Although Mycroft is the face of the Campaign the spirit on which this organisation is based is the teamwork that exists among the five founding members, whose strive to mobilise the minds and bodies of children with disabilities and to normalise society through advocacy and education programmes and events.
The Chaeli Campaign aims to change the life of one disabled child at a time in a significant way. See more at www.chaelicampaign.co.za.
