Youth Empowerment & Integration (YEI)

Gerard Mutabazi Amani, Faraja Tresor Amanda, and Betlhime Zewde founded Youth Empowerment & Integration (YEI) to empower African youth in Edmonton, Canada to become effective leaders through education, career development, and community integration mentoring and support.

Faraja Tresor Amanda

Faraja Tresor Amanda was born in the DR Congo, left the country at age 4 due to civil wars and grew up in Tanzania Refugee camp. He goes by his middle name Tresor which is the French version of treasure. He believes to be a treasure for this world with a sole purpose to serve humanity. His family […]

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 […]

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 […]

Fempower (Fempoder)

Carlos Vargas is launching Fempower in Caracas, Venezuela. Fempower empowers young women, through training and development of digital competencies, to develop social enterprises and gain skills to improve the quality of life of the participants and their communities.

Carlos Vargas

Carlos Eduardo Vargas is a lawyer with a Governability, Public and Political Management Diploma, an MBA Candidate, a social entrepreneur, an innovator, and a strategist. He is the co-Founder & Chair of 1001 Ideas. Through his work, he has become a Global Shaper of the Caracas Hub, One Young World’s Venezuelan Ambassador, Resolution Fellow of […]