Teen Hero - Jeremiah
0Jeremiah is an active member in his community. Jeremiah says it was his mum, a youth worker who got him and his family into campaigning. At 4 he and the family started getting involved with the Nelson Mandela School Foundation, a quest for more secondary schools to be built in his area as he felt people in his area had to travel far to get a decent education.
When Jeremiah was in Year 7 he decided to run for Young Mayor representing all the young people in Lambeth. He won with 700 votes. He has distributed £75,000 around his community as part of his role as Lambeth's Deputy Youth Mayor. More recently he made a comedy news report about the riots which involved interviewing people on the streets.
In February this year one of his friends was stabbed to death. 'He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.' After being affected by 8 deaths from youth violence, Jeremiah was determined to speak out and campaign against youth violence. He has founded the One Big Community Campaign (1BC).