UAE: Pakistani student is a finalist for $100,000 Global Student Prize

UAE: Pakistani student is a finalist for $100,000 Global Student Prize

A UAE student has been named a Top 10 finalist for the Chegg.org Global Student Prize 2021 — a $100,000 award to be given to one exceptional student who has made a real impact on learning, the lives of his or her peers and on society beyond. Seventeen-year-old Pakistani expatriate Lamya Butt, a student at Dubai Scholars Private School, was selected for the award from a pool of over 3,500 nominations and applications from 94 countries around the world. Lamya is the first Teen Advisor from the UAE for the United Nations Foundation Girl Up initiative and Mena Regional Leader, where her role is to empower girls by focusing on topics like girls’ education, gender-based violence, and breast cancer awareness. She is also the founder and CEO of the youth initiative Resilient Together, which works with international philanthropic organisations and provided ICT devices for 20,000 UAE students forced into distance learning by Covid – work that has received international coverage and attention. Resilient Together has thousands of youth members and has expanded to establish chapters over five countries (UAE, USA, Poland, Mexico, and Pakistan), where it provides online courses on coding, debating, public speaking, photography, and other skills. At school,