Youth Leadership Alliance
Youth Leadership Alliance will provide leadership development and training opportunities to young people in San Jose, Costa Rica. Projects developed through the program will then be considered by the local government for support.
Luis Diego Ramírez Hernández
Luis Diego is an International Relations and Economics student based on San José, Costa Rica. After spending several years participating in Model United Nations conferences, one of his main passions through high school and college, he noticed the lack of participants from public high schools and the elitism that was present there. He then decided […]
PODER (Programa De Oportunidades, Desarrollo, Emprendurismo Con Responsabilidad)
Program of Opportunities, Development & Ethical Entrepreneurship (“PODER”) is a youth development organization that will empower socially disadvantaged indigenous youth in rural communities in Toledo. PODER will offer leadership training through cultural, sports, and artistic activities, as well as workshops on entrepreneurship, sustainable agriculture, and natural resource management. Juan and his team will help youth […]
Juan Bol
Juan is from a rural Mopan Maya community, called San José Village, in the south of Belize and currently an undergraduate student at EARTH University in Costa Rica studying Agricultural Science and Natural Resource Management. After secondary school, he spent two years working with the Toledo Cacao Growers Association (TCGA), a non-profit organization devoted to […]
Tuniq
Iman Masmoudi is launching Tuniq in Tunis, Tunisia, a community-oriented design label employing Tunisian craftswomen in rural areas to bring traditional designs and modest clothing to Tunis and the world, while empowering the women and their communities through social programs directed at health and education and funded by a portion of the profits.
Iman Masmoudi
Iman Masmoudi is a senior at Harvard University. She grew up in a large Tunisian-American family in Charlotte, North Carolina. After the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, she became dedicated to contributing to the success of democracy in her parents’ home country, which she visited every summer. She founded Munawwara with her sister in order […]
DigiKidz – A Computer Science Summer Camp For High School Students
Veaceslav will be tackling computer illiteracy among high school students in Moldova. He and his team will run a week-long summer camp that will teach basic computer science to high school students, helping them gain IT skills, as well as comfort and familiarity with workplace software, and increasing their ability to excel in higher education […]
Veaceslav Cretu
Veaceslav is a student of Computer Science at Chattahoochee Technical College, Georgia State. He was born and lived for 18 years in the Republic of Moldova. He studied one year at Technical University of Moldova at Faculty of Computers, Informatics and Microelectronics, specialty Information Technology. When he was a child, he was introduced to the world of digital technology by […]
Zawadi Healthcare Services
Gift Kiti is launching Zawadi Healthcare Services in Kashani, Kenya (near Mombasa) to enhance the quality of life for residents by constructing a borehole that will provide safe and clean water to the local Zawadi Healthcare clinic, while also providing a water source to a town that is currently facing water rationing. Gift aims to […]
Farm 2.0
Through Farm 2.0, Jasmine will develop a mobile app to help Thai farmers access data for optimum agricultural inputs while also increasing their financial literacy and creditworthiness. The app will empower the farmers by providing information that will improve crop yield and efficiency.
