Impact Report 2018

Creative Skills 4 Peace Book Donation and Library Project

The Creative Skills 4 Peace project works with young people in prisons across Cameroon, to provide them with education and vocational skills training that can help them to access better
opportunities upon release. The Project currently works with eight prisons across six regions in Cameroon and has impacted 12,000 inmates. 

Christian leads the vocational training, or ‘prisonpreneur’ programme while Nina works on the book donation and library project and has secured three million CFA Francs worth of books which have been donated to the prison libraries.

Men Na Nekk

Brice leads the Men Na Nekk project to reduce the risk of violent extremism spreading into Senegal. Men Na Nekk has taught 900 school children and 450 school leavers about countering violent extremism, and equipped them with practical skills that will help them to be financially independent in the future. Men Na Nekk focuses on education and employment training to ensure young people in South East Senegal have access to economic opportunities that can provide a stable income.

Village Health Action

Egide co-founded Village Health Action in 2012 to help prevent the spread of noncommunicable diseases through education and empowerment. The organisation has currently treated 2,800 drug users, and has conducted sensitisation and education training sessions with an additional 6,000 people. Village Health Action provides clinical services to drug users as well, helping with the rehabilitation process and facilitating social reinsertion.

enke: Make Your Mark

Rufaro is the CEO of enke: Make your Mark, which strives to equip young people with an entrepreneurial mindset by giving them relevant skills while cultivating the belief that they are capable of changing their own lives. More than 3,000 young people in South Africa have benefitted from the programmes coordinated by enke to date.

The flagship Trailblazer programme works with high schoolers to help them develop and create a social action project in their local community. Young people aged 15-20 work in groups to develop a sustainable business plan. Almost 50% of Trailblazer projects continue for at least a year after the programme, with each project typically impacting 50 people in the local community.

This project along with two others aims to develop the leadership potential and entrepreneurial spirit of young people in South Africa. 
 

Gradesmatch

Unathi founded Gradesmatch, for young people to access career advice and information, as well as to further educational opportunities across South Africa and Namibia. Gradesmatch was founded after Unathi attended the One Young World 2013 Johannesburg Summit, and has impacted more than 84,000 people to date. They provide information about the job market, higher education and scholarship opportunities. The platform specifically caters to students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to help provide relevant career guidance to communities that are typically underserved.

Thriving Talents

Michael founded Thriving Talents which specialises in providing services for the millennial generation to drive up employability and entrepreneurship amongst young people in Malaysia and beyond. Young people are provided with coaching, training and development programmes to better prepare them for the working world. Today, Thriving Talents operates in 40 countries and has trained 65,000 people. 

The organisation provides consultancy services to Fortune 500 companies, NGOs and government bodies seeking to engage with young people. Thriving Talents is set to reach it’s 41st country, South Korea, later this year. Michael also has a radio show where he inspires young people to contribute to a better world.
 

Coliba Ghana

Prince co-founded Coliba Ghana to address the issue of plastic pollution and to promote environmental sustainability. Coliba Ghana currently operates 40 recycling centres in Accra plus 16 across Cote D’ivoire, and has recycled 700 tons of waste in total.

Coliba collects and recycles single use plastic, ensuring that it gets processed sustainably using circular economy principles. The Coliba app allows homes, schools and businesses to request recycling pick ups at the touch of a button. The app also teaches users how to properly separate waste for efficient processing.

Coliba has established a plastic processing plant in Abidjan, where recycled bottles are turned into plastic pellets which can then be repurposed into new plastic products. 
 

Youth Social Advocacy Team

John Jal Dak founded Youth Social Advocacy Team to help young people in Rhino Refugee Camp. To date, 10,000 people have been impacted including 250 young people who have been trained as Peace Ambassadors. John’s team also runs a flagship entrepreneurial competition each year which encourages young people to pitch their business ideas for the chance to win two million Ugandan shillings worth of seed funding.

Desarrolladores de Empresas, S.A. de C.V.

Miguel Co-founded Desarrolladores de Empresas, S.A. de C.V., to develop effective communication and conflict resolution skills in communities across El Salvador. They have trained more than 9,000 people in the past year, strengthening their employability skills as well as their personal and professional relationships.

The organisation runs effective communication workshops for businesses, schools and community groups. Desarrolladores de Empresas operates on a sustainable social business model. Training sessions are sold to large organisations to improve communication between employees. These funds are then used to help offer similar training schemes for communities in need that are unable to pay. 
 

Youth Coalition Against Terrorism (YOCAT)

Imrana founded the Youth Coalition Against Terrorism (YOCAT) in 2010 to provide young people with skills training and to promote peace in northern Nigeria. The organisation aims to unite young people against violent extremism in the country through a range of programmes. YOCAT has directly impacted 6,000 people to date, reaching 1,500 people through its Security Awareness Campaign, 2,000 people through its Peace Education and Mentorship for Students (PEMS) programme, and an additional 2,000 people through its skills training programmes.

Moomken

Ahmed founded Moomken in 2013 to teach young people basic skills in technical media, and has trained more than 600 people to date in areas such as design and technical skills so they can work as freelancers in Libya. Moomken has worked on several other projects such as establishing a national schools registry, a campus-based anti-harassment campaign and a debate competition for high school students. Moomken is also set to open a coworking space to encourage enterprise and innovation from its office in Tripoli.

HeySuccess

Milenko founded HeySuccess as a platform to connect curious students with opportunities to work and study internationally.

By providing scholarship details and travel events on this platform, HeySuccess makes studying and working abroad more accessible for young people, regardless of their interests or economic background. HeySuccess provides thousands of opportunities in 190 countries around the world.

So far, HeySuccess has around 250,000 registered users, and it has connected more than 8,000 young people to opportunities in other countries. HeySuccess runs on a premium model, and it works with big corporations to help them recruit top talent from around the world for internships and graduate positions.

Ishtar Handmade Soap

Zinah founded Ishtar Handmade Soap to provide Iraqi women with opportunities to become self sufficient and generate income. Ishtar Handmade Soap trains women and girls to make their own soaps and detergents, and then supports them to sell the finished products in their shop in Baghdad and in bazaars across the country. Through these workshops, Ishtar Handmade Soaps has created employment opportunities for 12 full time and 25 part time workers. The organisation donates 30% of the profits generated to local people and causes in need. These funds have been used to support people suffering from cancer and in need of heart surgery, as well as a local animal shelter. Most recently, Ishtar Handmade Soaps helped to sponsor three Izidi girls through university in Mosul, since their families had no resources to allow them to study after fleeing ISIS.
 

Garden of Hope Foundation

Victor founded the Garden of Hope Foundation to develop the skills of underprivileged young people living in the Kibera slums in Nairobi. Garden of Hope Foundation has worked with 5,000 young people since its inception, helping them to develop their entrepreneurial and leadership skills. This programme is primarily targeted towards those who have been victims of forced marriages or have dropped out of school at a young age. So far 3,000 women and girls have been equipped with entrepreneurial skills through this programme. Garden of Hope Foundation also educates women on sexual health and rights, as well as providing sanitary towels to 500 girls each month to help them manage menstruation properly. 
 

ZoEasy

Spandana founded ZoEasy, a platform for "blue collar" migrant workers to find jobs and match their skills and expertise. They have a database of 65,000 people and has successfully run pilot placements matching 100 jobseekers with suitable employment. They aim to cut out inefficient and expensive intermediaries, instead matching workers with jobs for which they are qualified and well-matched. They enable blue collar workers in the UAE to access jobs in an ethical and transparent way.

95%

5,800 business leaders impacted

Deriving its name from the study that claims that humans only use 5% of their brain, Jonathan and his organisation work to tap into the underutilised 95%. As a corporate culture consultancy, ‘95%’ strives to turn workplaces into ‘joyplaces’ by developing a strategy for how to resolve any identified issues, before setting about implementing the plan to create a lasting cultural shift within the organisation.

Seeds of Hope PNG

Through various projects conducted by John Taka and his team, 19 school children and 7 higher education students have received subsidised school fees, 4 laptops have been donated, 80 people have opened their first bank account, and 2 roads have been built, making it easier and safer for families to commute.

MECA

150,000 students taught employability skills through MECA

Ahmed founded MECA to help prepare students for the world of work by providing them with the relevant skills, experience and opportunities to help them secure jobs at top companies in Egypt. MECA provides internships, training sessions, seminars and careers fairs to support university students as they enter the job market.

Florence Masetla Foundation

Florence founded the Florence Masetla Foundation in 2013 which initially focused on the research and championing the use of technology in education to help eradicate poverty through access to quality education and information for decision making and active citizenship. Through the educational outreach of her foundation, 57 students received vocational and technical training. In addition 50 solar powered Repurpose school bags were bought for children attending a rural school in South Africa and the foundation hopes to buy another 250 bags by the end of 2017. 

Adonai Centre

856 men aged 14-21 directly impacted, with around 122 a year

Receieved close to $1,000,000 over seven years

The Adonai Centre was founded to support marginalized young men to achieve a better education and future for themselves, with each man receiving up to 250 hours in different programmes a year from the Adonai Centre. 

Lab21

6,000 small business owners given entrepreneurial skills

5,000 children have benefited from an improved quality of education in 60 schools across Equador

Ana Hidalgo cofounded Lab21, an organisation that seeks to improve the way people learn by emphasising skills like confidence and empathy as key components of entrepreneurial training. The programme provides young people and small business owners with specialist business training. Ana created Youth Potential Development Ecuador as a project within Lab21, educating teachers about alternative teaching methods and using more innovative techniques in the classroom.

Fundación Qubo

120 at risk young people helped to gain employability skills

David is the CEO of Fundación Qubo Soluciones Sociales Innovadoras, which works with victims of armed conflict to promote development and inclusion. Through PazArte el Balón young people are taught entrepreneurial skills and provided with mentorship and support. PazArte el Balón also organises sessions where people volunteer to talk to young people about sexual health and reproductive rights and the dangers of youth crime.

Arts in Fife

Stuart Russell founded Arts in Fife in 2013 with the aim to promote lesser known artists to the wider world. 500 artists have used the platform which has published six magazines and 26 radio shows, listened to by 5,000+ people. 

Visually Impaired Entrepreneur Project

111 visually impaired people trained to start their own businesses

$600 monthly income generated by each entrepreneur on average

Ankit Garg, a visually impaired employee at Standard Chartered Bank works on a project that is part of National Association for the Blind, Centre for Blind Women, New Delhi to help visually impaired people start and run their own businesses in a sustainable way.

NepalNOW

Prakash launched the NepalNow initiative to promote tourism, encourage people to travel to the country and share his country with the world. So far the NepalNow initiative has amassed a substantial following on social media, and has proven to be an effective way of uniting the Nepalese in the cause of promoting their country. NepalNOW.org has received nearly 150,000 visits in its 18 months in operation, and has sparked interest and raised the number of tourists entering the country by an estimated 2,000 visitors.

Club Entrepreneurial Acces Jeunes

Jodney and Jacquelin founded Club Entrepreneurial
Acces Jeunes in 2011 to support young entrepreneurs
with educational and financial support. 5,000 people
have received three hours of training a week and support
for a year. They have also started a record label that aims
to help young artists lift themselves out of hardship.

Hakizetu Tanzania

5,000 students educated on women’s rights

1,754 women were provided with access to legal aid

360 young mothers taught employability skills and 34 child domestic workers returned to schools

Evodius cofounded Hakizetu Tanzania, to promote women’s rights and prevent child marriage and child exploitation in Tanzania. The organisation provides vocational training skills and support to young mothers, women and children in need by providing legal aid and social counselling.

Impart Liberia

75 women trained in tailoring skills to help them secure paid work

360 children taught conflict resolution skills through the iRespect programme

Impart Liberia has empowered 75 sexual assault victims by teaching them employability skills through I Learn to Earn, subsequently hiring the graduates as seamstresses. Impart Liberia also runs the iRespect program, which seeks to overcome sectarianism in the country through youth clubs where school children learn about conflict resolution.

Humanite Skincare

Tessa founded Humanite Skincare in 2015, to ensure that shea butter producers in Burkina Faso receive fair trade prices. So far, she has ensured that 5,000+ women in Burkina Faso have been fairly paid for the shea butter that they produce. 

Blume

230 service providers currently featured on the platform

28,000 new service providers expected to join within the next 24 months

Rumwell cofounded Blume, a social impact business that provides a digital platform connecting formal and informal service providers to customers. The online platform compiles a register of trusted providers for a range of services including plumbing, catering and electrical work, allowing informal service providers to secure new work and build up their reputations.

SBYA Global

Shazeeb Islam Founded Social Business Youth Alliance Global (SBYA) to educate and support people in Bangladesh starting a social business. SBYA’s Social Business Development training programme offers three-hour workshops to introduce the concept of social business. 60 people attend each of 7 workshops a year.  This year, over 1,890 young entrepreneurs benefited from SBYA Global.

I Decide

Rana founded "I Decide" to educate young people from disadvantaged demographics on a variety of topics including environmentalism, reusability, and skills training. In addition to teaching employment skills to a group of young Palestinians in a Lebanese refugee camp, she has provided a skills training workshop and a series of art workshops to each children under age 10 about environment and climate change.

Tshwaragano Entrepreneurial Trust

1,360 small business owners benefited from mentoring

180 businesses attended 1 major expo

Stephen founded Tshwaragano Entrepreneurial Trust as a forum for small business owners to save securely, share best practice and access financial advice. Tshwaragano Entrepreneurial Trust offers access to dedicated market days every three months, providing small business owners with additional opportunities to sell their products and increase their revenue.

ENEL, Dominica Wind Farm, Mexico

45 students and teachers benefit from lighting for classrooms, energy for computer equipment, and a working water well

30,000 specimens of 16 cactus species grown for ornamental and reforestation purposes

In 2015, Rossella worked with a team to pilot a project, titled the Dominca Wind Farm in Mexico. ENEL Green Power began with a reforestation project to compensate for areas that were deforested due to the construction of the wind farm, as required by the National Forestry. This award-winning project is the first sustainable energy construction project in Mexico, and Rossella and her colleagues are now applying this sustainable approach in other projects around the world. 

Mentor Connect

Kayode founded an online mentoring platform to connect young job-seekers (either unemployed or looking for a change) to speak to and get advice from established professionals. Mentor Connect has been running for just under a year and has already paired 19 young ‘protégés’ in Nigeria with 19 mentors internationally.

Menos

40 people given entrepreneurial training to begin their own micro-enterprises

João founded Menos an organisation that facilitates and accelerates micro entrepreneurship in Portugal. Menos runs a two weeks intensive training course that teach people about the basics of entrepreneurship, with a focus on small scale, local, community-based businesses.

Thai Young Philanthropist Network

In 2008, Ada founded the Thai Young Philanthropist Network, the organisation has grown into a community of 2,700 young leaders working to strengthen civil society in Thailand. TYPN offers youth entrepreneurship training for students and teachers from 250 schools nationwide to build ventures that generate extra income for their institutions, and provide business consultation and capacity building support to over 100 social purpose organisations.

Imagine Nation

Dean founded Imagine Nation in 2014, it is an incubator
for start-ups in one of the poorest areas of South Africa.
The founders have put in 500 hours and around
100,000 ZAR of investment. They are still in their pilot
phase and have helped 20 young people so far and they
have been given 300 hours of teaching.

The Biz Nation

500,000 people taught entrepreneurial skills through The Biz Nation

Karen and her sisters cofounded the Biz Nation, an online platform to increase entrepreneurial spirit and to foster creativity among young people. Users interact with a high tech, easy to use platform where they can learn skills such as coding and social media management to help them generate income.

CSR Kosovo

The organisation, originally founded in 2011, is primarily involved in issues of youth employment and human rights in business, with some activity on environmental and transparency projects. It oversees and supports the implementation of socially responsible corporate projects throughout Kosovo, whilst striving for economic development, CSR best practice and compliance with the Global Compact Principles.

Monkey Tie

Jeremy founded Monkey Tie to offer people the same chances of professional empowerment. They cater for job seekers, people who are unhappy in their current jobs and companies looking for candidates that fit their culture. They have over 100,000 users on the website and offer them free personality tests and ten hours of professional coaching. 

The HUMAN Foundation

3,025 people reached through the Human Foundation programmes

65 people taught sign language

30 women coached in maternal health

Farida Asgarzade created the HUMAN foundation to empower marginalised groups and bring people together regardless of their background or lifestyle choices. The foundation runs a number of programmes, including professional training and mentorship. The Human foundation also educates people and creates safe spaces to discuss health risks, disabled rights and interfaith dialogue.

Yunus&Youth

Cecilia Chapiro co-founded Yunus&Youth, a global online mentoring platform for social entrepreneurs. The aim is to train, equip and connect young social entrepreneurs with the expertise, resources and opportunities needed to maximise their impact.  The six-month mentoring programmes helped 43 young social entrepreneurs from over 18 countries. 

Lensational

Lensational makes sure the authentic stories of marginalised women are heard by sharing them online, by hosting exhibitions and by generating media coverage estimated to have reached over 10,000 people. 
The workshop participants are taught to express themselves through photography. Through Lensational students receive 50% of the revenue from their photographs which are sold through Lensational’s online platform and partner agencies. 
To date 604 women have been trained by volunteers, 130 women have sold their photographs and so are now earning a living through photography as well as telling their stories to a worldwide audience, and although the project is still in development there are 37 freelance photographers.

Xplode Magazine

35,000 people reached through Xplode Magazine

2,500 secondary school students taught how to improve their employability

Xplode Magazine is an online publication to give young people opportunities to to improve their employability prospects through learning business and media skills. Saeed also developed Xplode Employ as a programme to improve the employability of secondary school students.

Belize Youth Empowerment for Change (BYEC)

6 sessions held to discuss and educate 100 government officials about LGBT rights and educating 25 members of BYEC about reproductive health, human rights, and sexuality

19,000 men convinced to come forward to be HIV tested

Kevin Mendez founded the organisation Belize Youth Empowerment for Change (BYEC) to advocate for LGBT rights, women’s rights and youth empowerment, in addition to forming an umbrella organisation called KCAT, a coalition of other LGBT NGOs in Belize. Together they promoted equity for members of the LGBT community in Belize, as well as advocating on behalf of sex workers and people living with HIV. In addition to Kevin’s extensive work with the LGBT community, he has been a vocal advocate for women’s rights and youth empowerment through BYEC and has helped 25 girls find employment at a textile plant as well as assisting three young adults with pursuit of Secondary and University education. 

The Door Campaign

Quincy founded The Door Campaign, which invests in the link between education and employment to ensure youth in low-income households have the resources and tools necessary to obtain quality employment. 450 students have received a minimum of two hours a week for 18 weeks of training. They received $125,000 in funding.

Youth in Agriculture for Economic Development (YAED)

30 young people trained to use modern farming technologies

$2,000 estimated increase in income after agricultural training

110 university students given entrepreneurial skills

Happy Arnold started Youth in Agriculture for Economic Development (YAED) to encourage young people in Malawi to pursue a career in agriculture. Through YAED projects, young people are empowered and informed on modern farming technologies, included in decision making towards agriculture economy, acquire credit facilities for farming and advised on processes of marketing their products.

Sporte Avis

Almost 800,000 people reached across the East Caribbean

300 athletes supported by Sporte Avis

Nyus Alfred started Sporte Avis to develop local athletic talent in Saint Lucia and to provide a platform for aspiring sports journalists to develop their skills. As well as teaching athletes what they need to get ahead in sports, the organisation also teaches them about the role of sport in conflict resolution and promoting peace at home and abroad. In 2016, Sporte Avis launched their programme regionally and began to provide the same services to athletes across the East Caribbean.

Investing For Charity

Matthew, an equity analyst, created Investing for Charity (I4C) as an ancillary fund which enables donors to invest into a socially responsible, diverse and pro table portfolio, whilst ensuring his charity was not donor dependent.  To date four charities have received $15,000 AUD ($10,391.25 USD).

I4C also aims to create a new generation of socially aware financial experts by offering financial investment training to young finance and economics students. To date 160 students have been educated and 120 have graduated.