Sept. 9, 2025 – At present, TIME and TIME for Youngsters reveal the 2025 Child of the Yr, recognizing one distinctive younger particular person making the world a brighter place.
This yr’s recipient is 17-year-old Tejasvi Manoj. Tejasvi is acknowledged for growing Defend Seniors, an internet site designed to coach adults age 60 and over about on-line scams, analyze suspicious emails and supply hyperlinks to report them.
Manoj tells TIME: “I began volunteering in sixth grade…I feel it’s actually necessary; in case you’re fortunate your self, you need to be certain that different individuals really feel beloved and fortunate too. It simply makes me really feel actually glad, understanding that I could make a distinction.”
— Learn the duvet story and watch the interview with 2025 Child of the Yr Tejasvi Manoj.
— See the TIME cowl, that includes {a photograph} by Zerb Mellish.
Of the 2025 selection, TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger writes: “Tejasvi was acknowledged with an honorable point out within the 2024 Congressional App Problem; delivered a 2025 TEDx discuss in Plano, Texas, about the necessity to construct “digital bridges” to all demographics; and makes occasional appearances at native assisted-living amenities, demonstrating her web site and instructing seminars about cybercrime.”
“At TIME, we recurrently profile world leaders and next-generation changemakers. Child of the Yr elevates the very youngest, recognizing their accomplishments as they chart a course towards a brighter future,” mentioned TIME for Youngsters editor-in-chief Andrea Delbanco. “We’re giving children a platform, and watching them use it to encourage different younger individuals to comply with of their footsteps.”
Greg Weatherford II, director, The Allstate Basis and Social Influence:
“The Allstate Basis is proud to associate with TIME to raise youth-led service by the Child of the Yr. This displays our mission to help younger individuals and showcase the influence they will have when given the sources, alternatives, and encouragement to serve. This yr’s honoree is a real epitome of that, and we’re thrilled to carry up her journey and dedication to neighborhood. Their story is a robust testomony to the concept the subsequent era isn’t ready to steer – they already are.”
To pick out the 2025 Child of the Yr, TIME editors and writers carried out analysis to determine stand-out children within the U.S. ages 8-17. For the primary time, TIME additionally evaluated submissions to the TIME for Youngsters Service Stars program, which honors younger leaders who’re making the world a brighter place. Service Stars, developed in partnership with The Allstate Basis, helps all younger individuals to serve and enhance communities and shines a lightweight on children who’re positively impacting others.
The 2025 TIME Child of the Yr is made potential by unique associate The Allstate Basis, a nonprofit that’s dedicated to empowering youth ages 5 to 25 to serve and enhance communities
The 2025 Child of the Yr is on the market on time.com now and can seem within the September 29 problem of TIME, out there on newsstands on September 19. It’s going to even be featured within the TIME for Youngsters Service Stars particular problem, in lecture rooms and on-line at timeforkids.com beginning September 25.
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