Kenan Pala, a fifteen-year-old kid who simply always wanted to help out. Pala was from San Diego, and during his time there, he would spend a lot of time volunteering at soup kitchens, and beach cleanups. Through this time when Pala would help, he would also have the struggle of getting to support these causes due to the fact that these nonprofit organizations were not allowing the kids under the age of 18 to volunteer. After Pala had said this, he was convinced that he could start something that would allow any kid who wanted to volunteer could volunteer. In 2017, Pala founded the nonprofit organization Kids4Community. He said this about his foundation, “All our events are open to anybody of any age,” and “If you have the passion, you can come.” This was unbelievable for a kid like Pala to identify a problem of wanting to help, but due to age restriction he couldn’t always do it. Through this, he innovated in so many ways to create this nonprofit organization to just give back to his community. Also, Pala has raised $1 million so that he can help the local homelessness causes. He did all this while taking kids to help with 5k runs, dinner services, and backpack drives. For Pala this is quite impressive, while he is preforming these events, he is raising a ton of money when doing it. Although, he is getting to the age where college is becoming a decision, and when he enrolls, he hopes to help one last kid, and this is his ten-year-old brother Arden. Kenan Pala, being the inspiration he is, when he goes to college, he would like to hand this organization off to his brother, who is very interested in volunteering, this will leave his brother in the same shoes when Pala started the nonprofit.
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It is so inspiring that a young kid can notice something that needs to change. Pala is a kid who cares! The fact that he raised 1 million dollars to help the homeless is crazy. I admire him for having a plan for when he is in college. I hope that Arden has a similar heart for people in need.
Wow this story is so inspiring! It is extremely commendable that this young boy saw a problem and wanted to solve it even though he would not make any material profit from it. That shows that Pala is an entrepreneur who values empathy and desires to make a difference in the lives of his community. Sometimes restrictions or limits are the most useful to finding problems and creasing new ideas that solve them, and we see that with Pala’s life. There was an age limit for volunteer work and that motivated him to build his own non-profit organization with new unique benefits for his community.