Kenan Pala is the founder of the non-profit Kids4Community.
His idea for Kids4Community started while on a run along the beach with his father. There, he saw a stranded seal along the beach which caught the attention of many passers-by to come to its aid. He noticed that this amount of “aid” was not given to many poor/homeless individuals in his community. In his community, he watched as people casually walked by the homeless giving them no attention at all.
So in an effort to change this, he started Kids4Community.
The primary goal of Kids4Community is to encourage other students around the globe to get involved in their communities. This non-profit helps benefit homeless people by setting different cereal donations and raising money for local food shelters. Today, Kids4Community has raised over $1 million dollars for homelessness. Kenan Pala is also currently in the web3 space at Yale University, working on different projects that he hopes to launch soon.
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This was so inspirational, I love how he noticed a discrepancy in human beings and decided to do something about it. It was cool that he was able to use his empathy for others and make a business out of it.
It’s interesting how people would rush more to help an animal than another human being. It’s incredible how many posts I’ve seen where it’s children making an impact on the world rather than adults.
This is truly inspirational. It is very interesting to see how so many people ran to help the animal but will not run to help another human being who is in obvious need as well. This is very impressive to be done by a kid this young and to inspire kids across the globe.
This is a really interesting idea, and though I’ve seen programs like this before, sadly a lot of them aren’t super helpful (especially when implemented by the government) but it was really cool to see that this innovative idea and program is actually helping kids that desperately need it.