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23 Aug, 2023

Celebrating ways #YouthLead | Selin Ozgursoy

Selin Ozgursoy is a 16-year-old young woman from Ankara, Turkey. She is a STEM promoter, innovator and change maker. Selin is UNICEF Turkey's Youth Representative and the youngest member of UNICEF's Bussines Advisory Board, as well as the focal point within the UNICEF x Generation Unlimited Young Leaders Council. She has an unbound determination

21 Aug, 2023

Celebrating ways #YouthLead | Saoirse Exton

Saoirse is an 18 year old climate justice activist from Limerick, Ireland. She began climate striking in 2019 when she founded her local branch of the Fridays for Future global movement. Saoirse believes that restructuring our global economies is necessary to combat colonialist ideas of extractivism and exploitation towards planet and people. As a

21 Aug, 2023

Celebrating ways #YouthLead | Carlos Arturo Araujo Aguillón

Carlos founded a social project - “Cubre, Come y Crece” - in December 2019 and focused on donations (over ten thousand and counting) of essential items such as food, clothing, medicine and educational materials for underserved communities in El Salvador, Mexico and Panama. The donations are made every trimester and each donation focuses on

21 Aug, 2023

Celebrating ways #YouthLead | Niki Sajjad

Niki Sajjad is a PhD student in Space Engineering and has been an active member of Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) since 2020. She has served as the Council’s National point of contact for Iran since 2021 and has led SGAC’s UN Sustainable Development Goals project as part of the Space Safety and Sustainability

18 Aug, 2023

Celebrating ways #YouthLead | Isha Thakur

Youth in Focus: Co-Partners in Education As the school bell rang, a bustling crowd of children poured into the narrow corridors, eager to reach their classrooms. Among them was a new student, me, clutching my backpack tightly, my eyes absorbing every aspect of my new environment. The classroom walls showed signs of age,

18 Aug, 2023

Celebrating ways #YouthLead | Yi Kang Choo

Empowering the Future: Fostering Meaningful Youth Engagement Across All Sectors In a rapidly evolving world, where innovation and change are the norm, the significance of involving young minds across all sectors, be it in private companies, non-profit organisations, charities, and even governments cannot be overstated. The energy, creativity, and fresh perspectives that young

16 Aug, 2023

Celebrating ways #YouthLead | Mariam Surve

Mariam Surve is a remarkable Tanzanian young leader, dedicated to advocating for mental health, gender equality, and the rights of youth and children. She specifically focuses on the intersection of mental health with gender-based violence and violence against children, aiming to address the underlying mental health issues that contribute to these pervasive forms of

16 Aug, 2023

Celebrating ways #YouthLead | Santiago Yarahuán Dodero

Santiago Yarahuán Dodero explores one of the ‘hidden causes of climate change’; carbon emissions from global military forces. Santiago’s participation in the Mayors for Peace Youth Forum in Vienna 2023 Santiago Yarahuán is a Mexican law student specializing in international law and a young leader pertaining to the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs’

11 Aug, 2023

Celebrating ways #YouthLead | Yelezaveta Shelestova

If my past self asked my present self what I do in life, my present self would respond, "I am engaged in youth activism and educational initiatives." The past me might have thought that little had changed in my life. The present me knows that the context of the war has transformed the

4 Aug, 2023

Celebrating ways #YouthLead | Eliud Luutsa

Eliud Luutsa is a social innovator, digital enthusiast and the Ye! Advisor to ITC in Kenya. Building an Inclusive and Corruption-free Public Procurement One Stakeholder at a Time!   For years the fight against corruption has relied on laws and policies that have done little to prevent favouritism and exclusion of youth-led businesses