Dylan Mahalingham: Make the world a better place

It is an amazing story. Dylan Mahalingham,s achievements at a very young age are extraordinary.

"When I was around 8 or 9 years old, my family went on a trip to India. ... I saw people begging for money on the streets and there were people starving in the alleyways, children working," he recalled.

But there's nothing small about what Mahalingham did. He formed a nonprofit organization called Little MDGs, short for Millennium Development Goals. Forty-one thousand kids from 43 countries are following this high school senior's lead to meet objectives set by the United Nations for improving lives of the impoverished around the world.
He formed a nonprofit organization called Little MDGs, short for Millennium Development Goals. Forty-one thousand kids from 43 countries are following this high school senior's lead to meet objectives set by the United Nations for improving lives of the impoverished around the world.

"Children around the world raised $780,000 for tsunami relief in 2005 in Indonesia, and $11 million for Hurricane Katrina relief," said Mahalingham .


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