For law undergraduate Venezia Wee, age truly is just a number.
At the age of 14, she founded the Global Water-crisis Awareness (GWA) International Movement within the walls of her own high school classroom in Shanghai. Using the money from her 10 scholarships - totalling about $15,000 - to fund the movement, she helped raise awareness of the water crisis in 11 cities across five countries.
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