»  01-09-2007

Youth Advocates for Health
Since November 2006, when Wanelisa Albert travelled to India to attend the Global Youth Meet on Health (GYM2006), the South African teen-ager has been a tireless advocate for the health of her country’s children and youth.

After returning home to the Langa suburb of Cape Town, she helped to form Heartcore, the youth branch of the Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa. In January, she testified to South Africa’s Parliament about tobacco control. And on 31 May, World No Tobacco Day, she and other youths held a public rally to encourage people to abstain from smoking tobacco.

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