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All of us look for somebody to look up too. Someone who we can appreciate for their deduction and hard work to something that makes a difference.

Sometimes that’s a famous person on the world stage. Sometimes it’s a professional athlete and oftentimes it’s a friend or a family member.

There are so many people in the world doing good things who deserve to be recognized, including four young people in our own community.

At the end of this month, Austin High School students Chloe Cannon, Makayla Dokpodjo, Sabreen Nagid and Isabella Rosenthal, will take part in the Global Youth Institute as part of the World Food Prize Foundation.

From Oct. 29 to Nov. 1, the four will be among 150 student-delegates from around the world lending their voices to help solve the issue of food insecurity.

You, of course, can learn more about the girls by reading the story on the front page of today’s Herald. Here, we want to take the opportunity to laud this opportunity and explain a little bit why they are worthy of being looked up to.

To be able to lend a voice to this project is a unique opportunity to take part in an issue that affects all of us. According to the website www.concernusa.org 2.8 billion people from around the world cannot afford a healthy diet — a number that represents 35% of the global population.

That number is significantly impactful when you realize that 71.5% of people in low-income countries can’t afford a healthy diet, a figure that demonstrates the chasm of difference to high-income countries which reflect just 6.3%.

Feeding America estimates that 47 million people, including 14 million children, experience food insecurity annually.

This is not a light topic to be taken for granted, and now these four will be taking part in a world-wide initiative to find answers. No doubt it will be eye-opening for Austin’s representatives, but it also represents an inclusion into something profoundly  worthy of being lauded.

These answers will not be easy. The future will not be easy. It will require everybody to be involved and importantly that must include the younger generations because it’s the future we’re leaving in their hands.

Youth must have a stake in what we do for food security, because all too often it is youth that struggle the most — far too many head to school with the only food they eat all day being found at the school.

That is just a small wave in the much larger ocean that impresses the importance of being chosen to be a part of something bigger than themselves.

We wish these four the best of luck in adding their voice to this incredibly important issue.

Not only are they playing a part in our future, but they are having a say in how their own generation can help take care of the future and hand it down.

Just being involved is a massive step because the significance of the Global Youth Institute is represented in potential. Somebody in that group of 150 has the potential to change the world and that is a promising development we should all want.