A 17-year-old water conservationist and a sustainable development activist from the city who started his journey when he was only in standard 6. “I always wanted to do something more than what the other students were doing, that’s when I joined the ethics club in my school and it all started from there,” says Sankalp Mohan Sharma. Sankalp recently bagged the #NammaBengaluru Award for the Top 6 RisingStars of Bengaluru out of 1000 nominations from across the city where he won the award for his work on #climatechange. Along with that, he has won several awards naming a few like the Aryan Young Achiever award, The UN honour and the South Korean award.
The young recycler has taken up tons of projects that started way back from doing small recycling projects for his school to raising awareness on SDG 2030 page, conducting a poll on Twitter asking the people what can be done to achieve these goals in every country. Sankalp has also been working on his project called #WalkforWater which has restored 15,000 and more dried up bore wells that helped on average 80-100 villagers across the country.
But, what was his inspiration we ask him and he says, “Watching Sir Al Gore’s Ted Talk on YouTube, fueled my love and concern for the environment. It was the 20th of August when I had successfully completed my Leadership Training in Houston and was awarded the title of Climate Reality Leader. The title was so important and motivating for me and is till date as well. It gave me the drive to do more and more as a Leader for my country.”
Apart from making the world green again one at a time, Sankalp also enjoys playing basketball with his family, he started playing basketball at the age of 4 and says that it is one of his most favourite sports. He is also quite a socialiser and likes meeting likeminded individuals and loves hanging out with older people, like his grandparents, his friends’ grandparents, etc.
This year, he plans on launching his own organisation as he graduates from high school. He says, “There are tons of people working towards different causes of their own, and they’re doing a great job in it but what it lacks is support from the public. So, my first project will be about raising funds for the projects in different manners but also involving celebrities and being a part of the initiative and raising funds for the NGO’s.”
