Hannah Taylor started the Ladybug Foundation when she was eight years old and hasn't stopped since. She's being honored with a humanitarian award in September.

The Muhammad Ali Center has named the recipients of the "Six Core Principle" awards, which includes Winnipeg-born Taylor. Taylor is the founder of The Ladybug Foundation and I can makeChange Online.

Taylor feels honored to get the award, especially to be mentioned in the same sentence as Muhammad Ali.

"[Ali] was and obviously is such an example of a life committed to serving others and what creating hope can do," Taylor, who is just 21-years-old, said.. "He was the epitome of that."

It started when she was five years old. Taylor saw a gentleman searching through a garbage dumpster as they drove in winter.

"It's incredibly cold in Winnipeg in the winter," Taylor recalled. "I turned to my mom and asked why he was doing that."

That moment stuck with her and asked her parents endless questions until her mom told her to do something about it. "Maybe if you do something about it your heart won't feel so sad," Taylor recalled what her mom said.

"I went to my grade one teacher and asked if there was something I could do to help," Taylor said. "We had our first fundraiser for Siloam Mission . . . with my grade one class."

Taylor continued to raise money and awareness for homelessness, eventually getting to the point that she had to legally create a charity to continue doing what she was doing.

"It's the work that my heart needs me to do and I'm very thankful that I have been able to do this work," Taylor said.

As she looks back, she said there are so many things that, if they didn't happen, The Ladybug Foundation wouldn't have happened. Taylor mentioned her grade one teacher and her parents for encouraging her.

"If' you've found that thing that your heart can't forget about, learn everything you can about it," Taylor encouraged. "Knowledge is power, but knowledge [only] becomes powerful when it creates understanding."

Taylor also wants to encourage those who have young people in their lives that they interact with on a daily basis to take their ideas seriously.

"[My grade one teacher] could have patted me on the head and said 'that's nice dear,'" Taylor said. "Instead she said 'that's the best idea I've heard in a long time, let's have a lunch meeting about it.'"

The Ladybug Foundation has raised millions of dollars since it was started in 2004, all towards fighting homelessness. I can makeChange Online is an education program born from the Ladybug Foundation that is in more than 11,000 classrooms around the world, empowering young people to make a change.