Presentation of a Vision For a Better World for all

Essay Writing Competition 2025
Category: 12 - 15 years
- Runner-Up -

Runner-Up: "Presentation of a Vision for a Better World for All"

by Oluwasindara Musa from Nigeria

This piece was submitted in the Kids World Travel Guide Essay Competition 2025 in the Senior Category 12 - 15 years.

Presentation of a Vision for a Better World for All

When I close my eyes and imagine a better world, I don’t see flying cars or endless riches. I see something much simpler but far more powerful: a world without problems.

At the center of this dream is one clear truth: war is the engine behind almost every problem we face today. It’s not only about bullets and bombs, it’s the shadow that spreads into poverty, pollution, sickness, and wasted resources.

Think about it for a second.

The money spent on weapons could have built schools or hospitals. Farmland that could feed families is turned into battlefields. Rivers and skies are poisoned with smoke, and leaders start caring more about grabbing power than protecting people. If we want to end poverty, heal the earth, and protect the weak, then the first battle is against war itself.

The Yoruba tribe of Nigeria will say, "Ìbasepo l’ó n dá àlàáfíà síle" (It is cooperation that creates peace).

A better world cannot grow where weapons are planted. Of course, poverty walks hand in hand with war. Where there is fighting, families are torn apart, and children lose the chance to dream. Even when there isn’t fighting, poverty still holds millions of people down.

In my vision of a better world, no child goes to bed hungry, no young person is kept out of school because of money, and no family is stuck in endless struggle. Just imagine if the billions wasted on weapons were instead spent feeding the poor or curing diseases, that’s the kind of world worth building. And in that world, leaders wouldn’t be praised for how many soldiers they control, but for how many lives they lift up. Countries wouldn’t brag about the size of their armies, but about how many students they graduate, or how much clean energy they create.

As young people, we must not be silent. We have the right to say "Ìja o dola" (Conflict is not good), and to demand something better.

A better world would be a world of peace and fairness.

A place where technology helps the poor farmer in the village as much as the businessman in the city.

A place where resources are shared wisely, not hoarded.

A place where we see ourselves first as humans before borders, religions, or tribes.

Some might call this vision impossible. But I believe change starts small, "bi a kò bá dé ibi kan, a ò lè mo ibi tí a lo" (if we do not arrive at one place, we cannot know where we are going).

Step by step, choice by choice, we can move closer. Even as teenagers, what we say and do counts. We can show peace in the way we treat each other, and we can speak up to demand peace from those in charge.

For me, the vision of a better world is simple: no war, no poverty, no wasted lives, just a chance for everyone to live in peace and hope.

Just peace, fairness, and hope.

And I believe if we dare to imagine it, we can also dare to build it.

Congratulations, Oluwasindara! Your excellent piece has been selected as a runner-up in the 12-15 years age category!

What a thoughtful and passionate plea for peace and fairness! It shows us how peace is the key to solving many global challenges. The inclusion of Yoruba proverbs is excellent! This is such a powerful reminder that imagining a better future is the first step toward building it.

A truly powerful and inspiring piece! Well done, and congratulations once again!

Oluwasindara is 12 years old and attends The African Church Model College in Lagos/ Nigeria. English as first language. Home language is Yoruba.