The Road to Rights, a Sri Lankan youth led organisation founded in 2009, was awarded the “Peoples Choice Award for the year 2018” at the Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development, organized by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Action Campaign.
The Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development is an international gathering which aims to catalyze action on the UN SDGs worldwide. The competition saw the participation of over 700 organizations worldwide representing different countries and different fields of action.
The core principals of the Road to Rights form around the concept of creating awareness on human rights and the 2030 agenda thus empowering youth and creating a community which shares love and values interpersonal respect.
For the past 9 years, The Road to Rights has launched many successful campaigns island wide such as “Purposeful Play”, “Senses and souls”, iLead, YouthVote, human rights friendly cities, Rock the city, and Green girls.
“Remember this, we are the last generation to act on climate change. The world is in our hands, so let’s act together” – Ashan Perera at the award ceremony in Germany.
Ashan Perera began volunteering when he was just 8 years old and the organisation is the fruition of one boy's passionate dream to serve marginalized groups and members of society. Despite facing many obstacles and challenges, he has been able to create a youth led organisation that involves and inspires many young individuals in Sri Lanka while extending the reach of the 'Road to Rights' to 18 countries across the globe.
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