Chaeli Mycroft
Co-Founder and Global Ambassador, The Chaeli Campaign and Chaeli Foundation USA
Chaeli Mycroft is the Co-founder and Global Ambassador of The Chaeli Campaign & Chaeli Foundation USA. A South African ability activist with cerebral palsy who won the International Children’s Peace Prize in 2011, Chaeli Mycroft co-founded The Chaeli Campaign in Cape Town, in 2004 at age 9, to raise funds for her motorized wheelchair.
The organization now runs several programs that impact the lives of more than 7,000 beneficiaries annually. In 2012, at the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Chicago, she was awarded the Peace Summit Medal for Social Activism on behalf of all Nobel Peace Laureates.
She was also awarded the 2013 World of Children Award (Youth category) and 2018 Obama Foundation African Leader. She is the first female quadriplegic to summit Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the highest free-standing mountain in the world.
