Freya Thakral
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| Nationality | British | ||
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| Alma mater | Brighton College Bangkok | ||
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Freya Thakral is a British change-maker, entrepreneur and public speaker who is known for creating the Recycler and Curiousify apps. She was awarded the Diana Award in 2020[1] and the British Citizen Youth Award in 2021.[2]
Freya was born in Ealing, United Kingdom to teacher Sunny Thakral and fashion designer Preet Kaur. She has a younger brother, Ash. She currently lives and studies in Bangkok, Thailand and studies at Brighton College Bangkok.[3] She is actively involved with mental health and wellbeing[4] campaigns, reducing poverty and is an advocate for entrepreneurship[5] and empowering women[6].[7]
Freya is an alumni of The British School, New Delhi,[8] where she first started her Recycler project. Observing the plight of Delhi’s rag picking community and the lack of viable recycling options for the growing middle class in the city, she developed an app that offered door to door recycling pickups. She developed an infrastructure that employed some of the most underprivileged and utilised their skillset to collect and recycle plastic waste from households.[9]
Freya was part of the first all-girls team to represent India at the F1 in Schools World Finals, Team Blaze and helped them qualify for the event at the Indian National Finals in 2020.[6]
References
- ↑ "The Diana Award Roll of Honour 2020". The Diana Award. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
- ↑ "Youth Honours October 2021". British Citizen Awards. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
- ↑ |url=https://www.globaleducationjournal.com/article/554980251-brighton-college-bangkok-student-honoured-with-the-british-citizen-youth-award-at-the-palace-of-westminster |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=www.globaleducationjournal.com}}
- ↑ "Young mental health campaigner from Hounslow honoured at the Palace of Westminster". InYourArea.co.uk. 2021-11-12. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
- ↑ Lim, Ling. "Young Founder Feature - Freya Thakral". blog.smarterme.sg. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "First all-girls team to represent India at the F1 in Schools World Finals". Pressat. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
- ↑ Hikmat Foundation on Facebook Watch, retrieved 2022-03-13
- ↑ "Delhi schoolgirl receives Diana Award for humanitarian work - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
- ↑ "Waste recycling app fetches Diana Award for 13-year-old Delhi girl". www.downtoearth.org.in. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
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