Haaziq Kazi
About
Haaziq is a 15 year old plastic pollution activist passionate about tackling the issue of plastic waste. He was just 9 when he first saw a photograph of a dead whale washed ashore in 2013, who had died due to intestinal blockage.
He later learned that there are 5 trillion pieces of plastic in the ocean and it is enough to go to the moon and back twice, and that's what inspired him to start his dream project named ERVIS.
With the help of a 3D artist Haaziq designed ERVIS, a prototype of a ship which can extract plastic from the ocean surface. A ship that will clean oceans in a sustainable and responsible manner.
With a motto 'Be The Change You Want To See In The World', Haaziq doesn't see ERVIS as a ship, but as a platform for like-minded people and organizations to collaborate to address the common problem of waste in the oceans and the impact it has on life. He sees it as a connected movement for people to contribute to help save our oceans and marine life.
Awards and Accomplishments
Awards and Accomplishments
Haaziq Kazi is currently appointed as the Regional Focal Point for SDG14, Youth Constituency for the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth.
He is the founder of ‘Ervis Foundation’ which helps create awareness and mobilise action around plastic pollution. The Ervis Foundation has become one of the latest members of Plastic Oceans International’s BlueCommunities initiative, and the second in India.
Why Haaziq Kazi ?
At the 10th edition of TEDxGateway, held in Mumbai, Haaziq Kazi was one of the youngest speakers who impressed everyone with his questions which were not rare for a TED speaker, but definitely not common for a 12-year-old young speaker.
This young prodigy’s ingenuity and dream of a planet sans plastic waste is a dream worth sharing to inspire our youth and bring about a generational change in the way we interact with plastic.
