At the age of 12, Kenan Pala began his business Kids4Community. Kids4Community is a nonprofit in San Diego that offers voluntary projects where kids are encouraged to help as well. To understand the power of Kenan Pala’s mission. In 1998, Pala’s parents moved from Turkey to the U.S. and founded Confirm BioSciences, a drug-testing kits manufacturer and deliverer. The journey and transition were filled with many hardships; however, this is not what Kenan’s family remembers most. Instead, Kenan’s family remembers the incredible kindness of others shown through both financial and emotional support. “We started with very little means in our journey here, but we got so much help along the way and we’ve always felt very grateful,” said Zeynep Ilgaz, Pala’s mother. “If it wasn’t for the help we got along the way, we would not be here today where we are.” Through their past, Kenan’s parents instilled in him a passion and desire to give back. Kenan explains, “I learned to volunteer as soon as I learned to walk.” Built on these ideals, Kids4Community partners with organizations such as Interfaith Community Services to assemble and distribute care packages. These packages range from toys to hygiene kits. An additional focus of Kids4Community is homelessness. Kenan retells the story of jogging on a beach with his dad where he saw a sickly baby seal and people coming around it to help it. A few hours later, Kenan saw a sickly homeless man who was treated dramatically different from the baby seal. Where people crowded around the baby seal to help, people treated the homeless man as though he was invisible. Through Kids4Community, Kenan hopes to encourage younger kids to get involved in community efforts as well as create hope and love for the homeless. Kenan’s story is inspiring to me because he saw an issue that meant something to him and sought out a way to help people. Using empathy by way of entrepreneurship, Kenan chooses to make a difference.