A CHARITY activist is “delighted” to have been chosen to represent an international campaign group fighting global poverty and disease.

Zainab Ali Khan, of Cleveland Gardens, Harringay, has been chosen as a youth ambassador for the ONE Campaign, an organisation with more than seven million members across the world.

The 23-year-old was picked along with one of 50 people from the UK after landing a job in the media department for ONE last year.

Her first event will be Prime Minister David Cameron’s Anti-Corruption Summit in London next month.

She describes her new role as a “real privilege” after being involved in campaigning against poverty since studying English at Exeter University.

Zainab said: “I’m delighted to have been chosen as a youth ambassador for The ONE Campaign and can’t wait to start campaigning.

“I’m especially looking forward to talking to politicians and the public about nutrition and health for women and girls, as these will be significant drivers to ending extreme poverty by 2030.

“As a youth ambassador I want to show young people all across London, the UK and the world that we can successfully campaign for the change we want to see.

“We are a powerful force and when we use our collective voice, people will have to listen.”

Zainab explains her interest in helping people in developing countries began when she watched the Live 8 concert at 11 years old.

She said: “I have always believed this issue to be incredibly important and I was inspired by the Make Poverty History movement when I was growing up.

“That is where it all started for me and from there I became aware of everything going on in the world in terms of poverty.

”People think extreme poverty is such an abstract concept but they don’t realise how much has been done to help it already. I want to keep on making a difference in the world.”

Zainab will join the rest of the ambassadors in a number of events throughout this year.

She will campaign around the Nutrition for Growth Summit in Rio in August and then the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in the autumn.