Cojitha (Coji) Senanayake
Sri Lanka, 18
He/Him
Project: Cee Green
Coji has watched the island he calls home come under pressure from pollution — an estimated 1.5 million tons of plastic reach its waters each year — while children are often left without climate education. He founded Cee Green to close that gap, creating and delivering free climate-action books, games, and learning resources to schools across Sri Lanka. Print, digital, and Braille editions mean students in rural communities and students with visual impairments get the same materials as everyone else. Coji designs and writes all of it himself, reaching 10,000+ students so far, with a wider global audience following his poetry and blogs online. He is now producing short films on plastic pollution, sustainable living, and ocean conservation, working toward a goal of 100,000 students reached and pushing climate literacy through storytelling.