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Full Title: ADN Junior Champion Magazine (ISSN 2759-0380)
Short Title: Junior Champion Magazine
The ADN Junior Champion Magazine is led by three junior champions Master Arkoneil Ghosh (Founding Editor), Miss Prarthona Datta (Deputy Editor) and Miss Anushka Konar (Co-Editor). They feature the voices of the children and of those who are particularly on the frontline bearing the brunt of climate change and extreme weather events, every day. Each Magazine features a timely theme. Based on this theme subject-specific experts will be invited to guide the Editors.
Traslation Team
The Junior Champion Magazine Translation Team brings together 10 members working across four languages, helping the magazine reach a wider and more diverse readership. The team supports the magazine by translating selected contributions while preserving the meaning, tone, emotion and original voice of each young writer. Through this work, stories of resilience, disaster awareness and youth perspectives can reach readers across linguistic and geographical boundaries.
Team composition as of October 2026
Bengali: Rafuzzaman Himel, Dr. Angana Ray, Joy Chakrabarty, Shafia Mahisha
Urdu: Zunaira Rafaqat, Sidra Tariq
Arabic: Leen Sattouf, Ahmed Saif, Tracy Fisher
Mandarin: Yiyue Wu
Japanese: Keiko Moriwaki
Children and Youths’ Stories from Vietnam
Volume: 6
Publication Date: 13 October 2026
This edition brings together the lived experiences and reflections of children and youths affected by the recent floods in northern Vietnam, which disrupted homes, schools, families, and communities.
Children and Youths’ Stories from Pakistan
Volume: 5
Publication Date: 10 March 2026
The theme of the fifth issue is listening to the experiences of Pakistani youth who have experienced devastating floods. This special edition highlights their resilience, challenges, and reflections on climate change and disaster impact
Children and Youths’ Stories from Taiwan
Volume: 4
Publication Date: 13 October 2025
The theme of the fourth issue is listening to earthquakes and typhoons stories from school children in Taiwan. This edition aligns with the IDDRR2025 theme ‘Fund Resilience, Not Disasters’.
Children and Youths’ Experiences of Disasters in Malawi
Volume: 3
Publication Date: 11 March 2025
The theme of the third issue is listening to the experiences of Malawian youth who have experienced devastating floods. This special edition highlights their resilience, challenges, and reflections on climate change and disaster impact
Children and youths’ experiences of disasters in Bangladesh
Volume: 2
Publication Date: 10 October 2024
The theme of the second issue is listening to the experiences of children and youths
from small and marginalised communities who are severely affected by the impact
of climate-related disasters, deforestation, and social discrimination in Bangladesh
Listening to children’s experiences in the latest floods in India
Volume: 1
Publication Date: 12 October 2023
The theme of the first issue is listening to the experiences of children and youths in the summer floods of 2023, which affected 15 states of India.
ADN Junior Champion Magazine
Issued by ADN Publication, Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN)
Head Offices
Japan: Kansai University, Takatsuki
UK: University of Leicester, Leicester