Nineteen-year-old college student Sara Gebretsadik was given Colorado’s Emerging Community Leader for the Governor’s Citizenship Medal on Wednesday for providing community service for some of Colorado’s disenfranchised population, amongst others. The Ethiopian teenager is a new student at Colorado University and received a call from the Governor, John Hickenlooper while on campus. She also founded now-nationally recognized Rising Rebels, an organisation that focuses on increasing the number of students of colour taking advance classes in pursuit of higher education. He has transformed one of the largest waste landfills in Africa called Reppie dumpsite into Africa’s first waste to energy plant. The plant, which was expected to begin operation in January, will incinerate 1,400 tons of waste every day.

Source: Ethiopian News September 14, 2018 12:56 UTC