Queen’s Young Leaders awardee Leroy Phillips exemplifies courage

Leroy Phillips addressing the Global Partnership for Educations conference in Brussels last year.

Sitting in class one day, six-year-old Leroy Phillips suddenly realised that he could not see and as his child’s mind battled to understand this tragic turn of events, his teacher on account of him not participating in class sent him home.

He stumbled out of the classroom but could not find the school’s gate; he felt he was “wandering around in a circle.” Were it not for his cousin who attended the same school, getting home that day may just have proven impossible.

That day triggered a world of darkness for the young boy who for some years struggled to understand why he could not