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Not only Faatiha Aayat is a writer, she is also a child rights activist and climate campaigner.

The US-based Bangladeshi recently recommended a 100 billion dollar fund from the developed nations -- to spend on Bangladesh's sustainable adaptation to climate  change -- as an impacted country of climate change.

She made the recommendations in an essay she wrote as part of a competition titled,  "My goal for a better future".

Faatiha won the first prize in the competition, jointly organised by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and The Daily Star to raise awareness on SDGs.

And she is only nine years old.

Yesterday, she was awarded in a ceremony at the capital's IDB Bhaban, UNDP's country office, along with two other awardees.

On behalf of her, her grandparents Mir Md Alamgir and Rashida Begum received the crest and Tk 6,000 as a token honorarium.

The other two awardees were -- Md Saiful Islam and Tanjila Ahmed. A total of 648 youths of different professions, with different personal goals, participated in the campaign.

"We set water purifiers outside of the mosques for people from low-income backgrounds, including women and children, who cannot afford to buy bottled mineral water," said Saiful, an IDLC Finance Limited official.

Tanjila virtually joined the event from Sylhet. Her goal was to implement free quality education for the poverty-stricken population of her area.

"We only have nine years to reach our goals. If everybody works collectively to reach the goals, it will not any impossible," said Sudipto Mukerjee, UNDP's resident representative, and chief guest at the event.