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JASON EAPPEN USA
from AFI Changemakers at the United Nations ECOSOC Youth Summit 2023
by Ariel Foundation International / Ariana-Leilani Children's Foundation
Jason Eappen is currently 17 years old and is the Ariel Foundation Youth Ambassador and representative to the United Nations. The passion to achieve equitable education for all is an initiative that continues to be a goal of his to this day He is the founder of an international non-profit known as HYPE, where we seek to help improve the community and vulnerable populations around the world through providing care-packages and providing educational resources
The non-profit revolves around the quote,”“If you give a man a fish, he will be hungry tomorrow If you teach a man to fish, he will be richer forever.” The nonprofit has already impacted thousands of peoples and continues to make a lasting impact In his free time, he loves training in a martial art known as Jiu-Jitsu and has been doing it for over 12 years and has won local, state, national, and international competitions
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