Annaleise Carr swims across Lake Ontario to raise money for charity, joins ranks of other awesome teens

This Sunday, 15-year-old Annaleise Carr became the youngest person to ever complete the 52-kilometre swim across Lake Ontario, from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Marylin Bell Park.

Her swim raised more than $90,000 for Camp Trillium, a summer camp for children with cancer, the Toronto Star reports.

The teen's triumph is one of many recent headline-making accomplishments by teens, challenging the assumption that today's kids are spoiled, self-centred, fame-seeking, entitled and lazy.

Canadian teen Habiba Cooper Diallo, 16, recently founded Women's Health Organization International (WHOI) in response to a trip to Ethiopia, with the goal of encouraging women of the African Diaspora, specifically those suffering from obstetric fistula, to take responsibility for their own health-care matters.

"If disenfranchised women can achieve full autonomy over their medical experiences, growth, and most importantly, sustainability of effective health care resources — for example, health care education and programming — becomes feasible," she wrote in an email to Huffington Post Canada.

Diallo's sweet-sixteen birthday party contributed to her cause, raising $1,500 for online education and awareness.

The good-news stories involving teens seem endless:

Seventeen-year-old Marian Bechtel invented a prototype for a new inexpensive and efficient land-mine-detection device.

Fifteen-year-old Yash Gupta created Sight Learning, a non-profit organization that supplies donated eyeglasses to students in need.

Kevin Curwick, a 17-year-old football captain, tackled cyber-bullying with kindnesss this summer in Minnesota.

In England, a 10-year-old boy rescued a couple clinging to their capsized boat.

Near Winnipeg, a 14-year-old girl saved her three siblings from a house fire.

Instead of stereotyping an entire generation as selfish or irresponsible, let's champion the young minds choosing to make this world a better place.

Know any inspiring teens? Brag about them in the comments.

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