Kiwi anti-bullying campaigner Ashleigh Smith has been presented a young leaders award by the Queen. Smith, 19, was among 60 people awarded the Queen's Young Leaders Award at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace yesterday morning. The award recognised her effort leading the New Zealand initiative "Sticks 'n Stones" to reduce online bullying within schools. Sticks 'n Stones is an organisation that focuses on positive action to avert the risk of cyber-bullying and aggressive online behaviour. Sticks 'n Stones already had 300 young volunteers and Ashleigh hoped to be able to expand the initiative to every school in New Zealand.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 01, 2017 01:07 UTC