Climate activist Greta Thunberg, who recently got fame for bashing developed nations for causing harm to the environment, has taken a new initiative for the greater good of humanity.

Greta, 17, announced this Thursday that she’ll be partnering up with Human Act Foundation and UNICEF to start a campaign to help kids who are the most vulnerable in the wake of the current pandemic situation.

Greta has kick-started the effort by donating $100,000 to UNICEF to help them in their efforts on the matter. She won this money as a prize from Human Act Award 2020 on Earth Day.

Human Act is going to add another $100,000 which means that the efforts from UNICEF will start with an initial fund of $200,000.

“Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child-rights crisis,” Greta opined in a media release from UNICEF.

“It will affect all children, now and in the long-term, but vulnerable groups will be impacted the most.

“I’m asking everyone to step up and join me in support of UNICEF’s vital work to save children’s lives, to protect health, and continue education.”

UNICEF is already working with a number of agencies from all over the world to provide educational facilities, social protection, and most importantly the healthcare facilities necessary for the millions of children who are forced to remain out of school due to the ongoing virus situation.

The agency is currently working for kids in more than 190 countries to provide basic necessities, such as water and sanitation facilities in Yemen and personal protective equipment in Ecuador.

“The time is now, there isn’t a day to lose. We must unite together in this fight,” Greta added in UNICEF’s media release.

The teen activist won the Human Act Award on April 22 which included a $100,000 donation to her charitable body known as Greta Thunberg Foundation.

According to the Human Act, they bestowed Greta with the award “for her fearless and determined efforts to mobilize millions of people around the world to fight climate change.”

Greta went to a visit to Central Europe in the mid of March and on getting home she had some symptoms of COVID-19. Though she didn’t get tested for the virus, she believed she had contracted it and recovered.

So far, there have been 3.58 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 all over the world out of which, 1.17 million people have recovered and 252,000 people have lost their lives.

 

 

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