Amanda Todd

She was a Canadian girl, victim of cyberbullism and bullism, who committed suicide. Before her death, she posted a video on YouTube using flashcards to describe her experience. In response to her death, a national discussion on criminalizing cyberbullying ensued as well as more funding and support for anti-bullying organizations (like the Amanda Todd Trust, established by Amanda´s mother to support anti-bullying awareness education and programs for young people with mental health problems).

Malala Yousafzai

She is a Pakistani school pupil and education activist who became known in early 2009, at the age of 11–12, when she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls. On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus: she survived the attack and on 12 July 2013 she gave a speech at the United Nations demanding the right to study for every child in the world.

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

He was an American poet who suffered from a rare form of muscular dystrophy, dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy, which resulted in his death a month before his 14th birthday. He became a peace advocate and a motivational speaker on behalf of people with disabilities and children with life–threatening conditions believing that life is a gift to be celebrated and that his life mission was to spread peace to the world.