In the district of Ryd in Linköping he has been part of and founded Kvarter1, a meeting place for young people. Through the project Life2mothers he has helped a delivery hospital in Somalia get electricity. He himself studies political science at the university.

- It feels unreal and is a great honor. Everything has gone very quickly from the start of my projects to where I am today. Things I have done have been because I saw a need and then worked with a focus on solution. To then get a price for it is a kind of acknowledgment that what I have done has been something good and useful, says Hamza Mostafa in a press release.

The prize of SEK 15,000 is presented at a ceremony at the Fryshuset in Stockholm on November 6.