$ 1 : 16
For every $1 of value invested, One Young World Ambassadors deliver $16 of social value, based on a Social Return on Investment analysis of 43 Ambassador-led initiatives addressing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2024/25
SDG Impact Tracker
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Suli Innovation House
Suli Innovation House - Iraq
Ravin Rizgar
Ambassador-led Initiative
19
SROI
Ravin founded Suli Innovation House as a result of her experiences as a women engineer in a male-dominated field. The organisation supports women and young people in developing tech and other practical skills, while providing a co-working space for entrepreneurs and innovators. Suli Innovation House’s work includes the Leading Women programme - focused on women’s empowerment in the tech sector, product design and market research, job placement training tailored to the particularities of the Iraqi job market, internship opportunities, and hackathons.
Ravin attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022, and credits her experience surrounded by like-minded young leaders as inspiring and motivational. Conversations with a fellow Ambassador from Egypt inspired Ravin to implement her Leading Woman programme.
Suli Innovation House has impacted 1,500 people over its different projects so far. It has trained 600 women in tech skills to help them break into the tech sector, providing weekly workshops and discussion sessions with successful women in STEM. The organisation’s product-to-market initiative has supported 30 people in product development and conducting market research in key areas like agritech and the environment. Suli Innovation House has since partnered with the Kurdistan region of Iraq’s government, and other non-governmental organisations to implement versions of this programme in other cities across Iraq. Additionally, 150 people have participated in its job placement skills programme, with over 55% of participants finding employment post-programme. Suli Innovation House’s hackathons have focused on climate solutions and waste, with participants developing promising prototypes and some going on to receive funding.
“One Young World came at a perfect time for me. When I applied, I was starting to build Suli Innovation House, and it was very motivational for me to survive. Being there surrounded by all those like-minded people and talking with them about my journey, all of them were supportive and offered collaboration opportunities. One example is a friend from Egypt, who inspired me with the work that she’s done for women to create my programme for women.”
Young Pride Club
Young Pride Club - Thailand
Best Chitsanupong Nithiwana
Ambassador-led Initiative
4
SROI
Best Chitsanupong founded the Young Pride Club as a university student to challenge gender expression restrictions and create a safe space for young people to learn about gender equality and the LGBTQI+ community in Thailand. The Young Pride Club’s advocacy efforts have led to policy changes benefitting trans university students, and raised awareness and support for the LGBTQI+ Thai community. Its team worked with the UN on a review of human rights in Thailand, following which measures to protect young LGBTQI+ Thais were recommended to the government. The Young Pride Club also worked with the country’s parliament on the draft gender recognition bill.
Best Chitsanupong attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022. She was a Delegate Speaker for the Gender Equality plenary challenge, where she had the opportunity to share her story and showcase her work with the Young Pride Club. After the Summit, Best Chitsanupong established connections with fellow Ambassadors to support each other with access to funding, fellowships, and other opportunities.
The Young Pride Club has been responsible for organising the Chiang Mai Pride parades since 2020, in partnership with international and local non-profit organisations, with 5,500 attendees. The Young Pride Club focuses on capacity-building for young leaders with workshops, training 125 of them including 50 youth leaders, on advocacy. The organisation also offers mentorship and resources for its youth leaders to start local initiatives and movements to advocate for the LGBTQI+ community and gender equality. It has fostered a growing community of 100 members locally in Chiang Mai, and has an extensive online presence through which it conducts digital advocacy and raises awareness.
“The Summit changed my leadership a lot. I learned that there are a lot of supportive leaders around the world that might not work in the same field as you, but they always try to seek opportunities to collaborate with you. So the biggest impact from One Young World is that we gained a lot of connections and we learned a lot from each other. And I got a lot of opportunities to showcase the work of LGBT youth on the international stage.“
Let's Handspeak English
Manel is the Founder of Let’s Handspeak English, an initiative providing English language education using Tunisian Sign Language to deaf and hard of hearing people in Tunisia. Her academic research comparing American Sign Language and English from a generative approach proved instrumental in leading her to found her initiative. Manel has created learning materials for Let’s Handspeak English from scratch, designing a pedagogy to teach the deaf and hard of hearing community in Tunisia with a book in 2017. She has since developed an additional six books, for a total of seven. In 2018, she created the Let’s Learn English through Signs app to reach a bigger audience.
Manel attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022, where she was inspired by her fellow Delegates. Since then, Manel has been an advocate for young Tunisian leaders to join the One Young World Community, encouraging them to apply for the Summit.
Let’s Handspeak English has taught English in sign language to 40 deaf and hard of hearing people. The organisation initially used in-person lessons, but has since moved online following the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing Manel to reach more students in different parts of Tunisia. Students currently take a level of English for two and a half months with a class size of six people. Manel also created Let’s Handspeak English weekend studies, a three-day business-oriented class where she provides hearing and deaf students with lessons on soft skills for business development in English. The Let’s Handspeak English app has been downloaded over 12,000 times, and Manel is currently developing a new version that will be more interactive for students.
“For me attending the Summit was a privilege, and a successful achievement. It gave me the chance to meet a lot of people, enlarged my network and it showed me there are different opportunities I can learn and get support from.”
Energy Shift
Filip founded Energy Shift after previous experience in an Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme during which he learned first-hand the challenges faced by regular people looking to invest in renewable energy. The sector is still dominated by large businesses, making it difficult for the general public to engage in renewable energy investment, except through complex and often infeasible personal home solar panel installations. Energy Shift is an online platform that uses blockchain technology to democratise access to, and simplify investing in, clean and renewable energy by facilitating individual investor ownership in solar or wind farms in several European countries.
Filip attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022. During the Summit, he was able to interact with people working in the energy sector and learned more about how corporations are working towards their net zero goals. These conversations broadened his perspective and understanding of the shift away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy.
Over 2,000 EU citizens who have expressed interest in investing in renewable energy solutions through Energy Shift so far, amounting to an investment potential of €25 million. This investment potential equates to 25 megawatts of solar energy capacity and 28 million kilowatt hours every year, enough to power over 10,000 homes annually. This renewable output will in turn mitigate 6,900 tonnes of CO2, comparable to the carbon footprint of 10,000 people. Filip plans to scale Energy Shift to produce 100 million kilowatt hours annually five years from now.
“I was impacted as a leader at the Summit because I got these new perspectives and new information, I got this network, I got this opportunity to speak and share my opinions, as well as connect to people that are in positions to decide on how their company moves forward and are able to make change within their company.”
Footsteps Bangladesh
Footsteps Bangladesh - Bangladesh
Shah Rafayat Chowdhury
Ambassador-led Initiative
9
SROI
Shah is the Co-Founder of Footsteps Bangladesh, an organisation working on community development issues by designing and implementing innovative, long-lasting, and sustainable programmes to solve social challenges. Bangladesh is particularly susceptible to climate change and natural disasters, ranking 9th out of 193 countries in the 2023 WorldRisk Index, due to its exposure, vulnerability, susceptibility, and lack of adaptive capacities [1]. Footsteps Bangladesh is tackling issues such as water access, disaster resilience and climate action, youth social entrepreneurship, and healthcare through its core programmes. It targets low income and marginalised communities, empowering people and communities across the country.
Shah attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022. During the Summit, he learned the value of a global approach when supporting young people to create change locally. Shah has subsequently developed a campaign focused on global movements for local change, broadening the support network for Footsteps Bangladesh while expanding its community engagement.
Footsteps Bangladesh has impacted 544,356 people to date; 403,077 through its core programmes and an additional 143,279 through awareness campaigns, volunteer training, and outreach events, including workshops and consultations. The organisation is addressing the traditional issues faced by NGOs in Bangladesh by training local communities in project maintenance. Footsteps Bangladesh targets local institutions to engage and mobilise communities in key development areas. It also developed a portable filter, the Dreamwater Portable Filter, converting 450,000 litres of floodwater into drinking water, and a disaster resilience bag for people to safely store valuables. The organisation is integrating solar power and waste segregation, and has trained 2,000 young people on skills development through its Changemaker Development Programme.
“It was honestly a dream come true moment for me last year because One Young World was able to achieve a dream of mine, which I thought I would never have the opportunity, which was to fly the Bangladesh flag on the global stage. So I would wholeheartedly thank One Young World for giving me that opportunity.”
Litro de Luz Brasil
Litro de Luz Brasil - Brazil
Laís Higashi, Rodrigo Eidy Uemura
Ambassador-led Initiative
2
SROI
Laís founded Litro de Luz São Paulo in 2015, with Rodrigo joining in 2016, to bring light sources to communities without regular electrification. It was estimated in 2022 that 600,000 people in Brazil continue to lack electricity [1]. Litro de Luz Brasil is a chapter of the global Liter of Light movement, and uses solar-powered solutions to provide access to electricity in communities such as the Favelas, Indigenous and in the Amazon region. The organisation also focuses on community engagement, teaching community members how to build its solutions to ensure that communities can maintain and replicate their light sources in the future. These community members become Litro de Luz ambassadors.
Laís attended the One Young World Summit in Munich, 2021, Manchester, 2022 and Belfast, 2023. During her first Summit, she established a relationship with the Audi Environmental Foundation, helping them scale their work in the Amazon. Rodrigo attended the One Young World Summit in Belfast, 2023, after which the team has established three other connections and are in the early stages of collaborating with other organisations.
Litro de Luz Brasil has impacted 25,000 people through the installation of 4,000 solutions, including 2,350 hand lamps, 1,600 street lights, and 50 internal house solutions. Additionally, Rodrigo and his team of volunteers and community ambassadors provide sustainability workshops to companies and students during which they teach participants how to assemble their solution and provide guidance on generating social impact. Litro de Luz Brasil’s solutions facilitate economic development, education, and improved health outcomes in rural and underserved communities, contributing to a reduction in the use of damaging kerosene and diesel light sources.
“It was really important for us to have One Young World showing and recruiting people and to have this partnership with Audi because this project, this relationship with Audi helped us to reach more communities in the Amazon rainforest in 2022. And this project was so successful that now Audi supported us this year and we also made another installation in another isolated island near São Paulo. And we are planning more projects in the future. So One Young World was really important to have a huge partnership here in Litro de Luz.”
Glass Half Full
Glass Half Full - United States
Franziska Trautmann
Ambassador-led Initiative
8
SROI
Franziska co-founded Glass Half Full during her senior year of college due to a lack of glass recycling options in Louisiana. Glass Half Full is a social enterprise that diverts glass from landfills by offering residential and commercial glass recycling options and free drop off points in three states of the US. The glass is collected, recycled into sand and gravel products, and then used in coastal restoration projects. Glass Half Full has a partnership with Tulane University, researching the use of its sand for coastal restoration in Louisiana, where a State of Emergency was declared in 2017 due to the severity of its coastal erosion and land loss [1]. The organisation has also collaborated with the Pointe-au-Chien Tribe to develop and implement restoration projects, as well as the Big Branch Wildlife Reserve and the Central Wetlands in Louisiana.
Franziska attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022. She was a Delegate Speaker on the Oceans plenary challenge, and was subsequently featured on Buzzfeed after another Delegate saw her speak. Being an Ambassador has opened other avenues for Franziska to promote her work; she was featured in the BBC’s Business Daily podcast where she discussed her story and Glass Half Full.
Glass Half Full has recycled six million pounds of glass and restored over 1,736 metres of land through four projects. The organisation has directly impacted 10,000 people through its recycling programme, and has 2,000 users through its residential pick up initiative. Glass Half Full has partnered with 10 schools in New Orleans, organising field trips through which 240 students have learned about glass recycling.
“I was one of the Delegate Speakers at the Summit and so I was able to get a speech coach. I was able to really refine my pitch and my story and then also present that to the 3,000 attendees. And so from that, I developed a lot of speaking skills but I was also able to meet so many different people who saw my pitch. One of those people ended up writing an article in Buzzfeed where I was featured.”
Ecomak Recyclers
Ecomak Recyclers - Uganda
Ronald Mugaiga
Ambassador-led Initiative
38
SROI
Ronald is the Founder and CEO of Ecomak Recyclers, a social enterprise tackling plastic pollution in Uganda and mitigating the impact of climate change. It is also generating green job opportunities for the unemployed, young people, and women across the country. Originating as a COVID-19 project, Ronald began Ecomak Recyclers to help people in his refugee settlement generate income. The enterprise converts the plastic waste it collects into recycled construction bricks that can be used widely in infrastructure projects.
Ronald attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022. He has remained in touch with his fellow Ambassadors, sharing advice and discussing best practices to grow and scale his work. As a Z Zurich Foundation Scholar, Ronald was able to secure additional funding for Ecomak Recyclers after the Summit.
Ecomak Recyclers has created 750 jobs, mostly in plastic waste collection; its community support insurance programme has assisted 150 households across two refugee settlements with accessing healthcare and schooling. Ecomak Recyclers has produced and sold 15 million bricks recycled from plastic waste. These eco-bricks and blocks are two times stronger and larger than conventional bricks, have zero breakages once used, require low maintenance, and are cheaper than conventional concrete and clay bricks. The organisation has also planted 8,000 trees, and distributed 200 energy-saving cooking stoves that are built using recycled eco-bricks.
“Attending the One Young World Summit was a really good experience. I personally got in touch with so many founders and entrepreneurs who are socially impacting their communities, learned from their studies. I'm still in touch with so many other people that I met in the Summit and always get advice from them. After the Summit, we got the funding from my sponsor, the Z Zurich Foundation, which was really important for us to see the business grow as well.”
Zelij Invent
Saif is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zelij Invent, a social enterprise converting plastic waste into eco-friendly construction materials. Saif’s interest in solving Morocco's plastic waste issues, combined with his entrepreneurial skills and innovative solutions, led him to establish Zelij Invent as the country’s premier eco-construction company. Zelij Invent’s consulting operations provide services on green entrepreneurship, specifically plastic recovery, with its programme supporting young green entrepreneurs across Africa. The organisation has also partnered with UNDP Iraq and the Global Fund for Cities Development to conduct market research on the Iraqi plastic waste sector and how to implement a plastic recovery solution in that country.
Saif attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022 as an Enterprise for Peace Scholar with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has since worked with fellow Ambassador, Afaf Ajangui, on implementing the programme to support green African entrepreneurs, impacting more than 1,000 people. He also collaborated with fellow Ambassador, Amintaou Bilal, on a programme to develop solutions for the Mediterranean region.
Zelij Invent has produced over five million hollow blocks in three years, recycling 50 million kilogrammes of plastic waste. Zeelij invent’s blocks are made through a self-designed cold collection production process, with plastic waste comprising 80% of the composition. The production process is more sustainable than traditional production, using 68% less energy resources, including water and electricity. Additionally, the organisation works with 300 self-employed people, supporting waste collection and production processes. The company’s blocks are used in a wide range of building solutions and sectors, with more than 50 houses constructed through Zelij Invent products so far.
“I was selected as an Enterprise for Peace Scholar from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and I met two of my fellow One Young World Ambassadors, Aminetou Bilal and Afaf Anjaguii, who with me were able to implement programmes to support green African entrepreneurs and develop solutions for the Mediterranean region.”
Tuesdays for Trash
Tuesdays for Trash - Israel
Sharona Shnayder
Ambassador-led Initiative
4
SROI
Sharona co-founded Tuesdays for Trash during the COVID-19 pandemic at first as a simple way to do something positive for her local community. The movement has since grown to 15 chapters with participants in more than 50 countries. Its mission is not only empowering participants to learn about the crisis in their own backyards but encouraging them to take action by picking up trash weekly for a cleaner and healthier home. Tuesdays for Trash is mobilising individuals across the globe to make intersectional behavioural changes that scale into collective solutions.
Sharona attended the One Young World Summit Manchester, 2022, and was able to connect with and be inspired by other young climate leaders, as well as young people working on similar issues. Sharona also fostered connections with Ambassadors in corporate spaces, exploring new avenues for scaling her work with Tuesdays for Trash through employee initiatives.
Tuesdays for Trash is responsible for removing over 57,000 pounds of waste across its chapters since it was founded. The movement is tackling the problem of inadequate municipal infrastructure in the short term, and it is instigating a wider systematic shift by creating a gateway into activism for the everyday person-- instilling accountability and awareness in the longer run. This has resulted in visible change such as within the Tel Aviv chapter where the beaches they’ve cleaned over two years remain clean. Tuesdays for Trash is continuously building the capacity of its members, while growing both its physical and online presence through targeted outreach in local languages. It is also active in developing a new waste management proposal in Israel, where Sharona has facilitated collaborations with Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian climate activists through the EcoPeace Middle East programme.
“I really appreciated learning from other young leaders at One Young World. Additionally the business connections I was able to make, such as a conversation with liaisons at Starbucks that I followed up on and received interest in having Tuesdays for Trash be a philanthropic initiative for their employees. Being able to make those connections and understand that there's a lot of opportunity to continue to scale Tuesdays for Trash was extremely valuable for me.”
EnRoute
Angela is the Founder of EnRoute, a non-profit organisation raising awareness and providing education around the environmental impact of fast fashion and the pollution caused by transportation. EnRoute initially worked locally with children in climate education. Its current mission is to help people shift away from fast fashion consumption to sustainable fashion, and change people’s mindset on transportation towards sustainable alternatives. Angela developed the EnRoute App during the pandemic to help consumers reduce their carbon footprint from daily transport and shopping activities. EnRoute builds its content with input from volunteers in 55 different countries to gather information about the status of fast fashion and transportation locally.
Angela attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022. She established long-lasting relationships with Deloitte’s corporate Delegates who have been able to offer guidance in climate solutions and scaling the work that EnRoute does.
The EnRoute App has 20,000 users who receive information on climate change, recommendations on fast fashion consumption, using transportation, and how to reduce their carbon footprint. Angela also ran online educational forums, where people could meet on a weekly basis to learn and discuss specific topics, such as the economics of how fast fashion operates. The initiative reached 70,000 people indirectly in 2022 through online and offline activities. EnRoute App users have reduced 150 tonnes of CO2 through choosing sustainable options when buying. Additionally, EnRoute is partnering with organisations that promote women in STEM to collaborate on coding for the EnRoute app.
“I attended the Summit as a Deloitte Scholar and it was a really great experience to be part of their team for that week. The connections that we established with Deloitte have gone beyond the Summit, and the team has offered me advice on climate change and scaling my organisation over the past year and a half.”
Uno.Cinco
Benjamin is the Founder and President of Uno.Cinco, a non-governmental organisation that promotes climate action to avoid a global 1.5º temperature increase. Uno.Cinco works with civil society, academia, international organisations, private and public sectors across Latin America to develop projects on education, advocacy, and community-building to propose concrete solutions and actions to implement a climate public policy agenda. Among the different types of projects, the organisation has three Climate Academies; the Academia Latinoamericana por el Clima, the Academia Unidas por el Planeta for Women, and Energy Transition Academy, which provide actionable climate education to participants.
Benjamin attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester 2022. The Summit gave Benjamin legitimacy and visibility with national and regional authorities in Latin America, while the networking experience proved extremely valuable for him as his first point of contact with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Uno.Cinco has educated more than 700 people through nine editions of its Climate Academies. The Academia Latinoamericana por el Clima has hosted four cohorts of people across Latin America. The Unidas por el Planeta Academy has helped four cohorts of women between 13 to 35, with its programming designed to address the disproportionate impact of climate change on women. As part of the first edition of the Energy Transition Academy, hosted in partnership with the Chilean Ministry of Energy, Uno.Cinco published an illustrated book summarising climate and energy lessons for students. Uno.Cinco also founded LCOY Chile and the organisation has been one of the main coordinators for the Latin American Young Climate Summit (RCOY) since 2021. Through coordinating and hosting these events, Uno.Cinco has impacted an additional 3,200 people.
"After the Summit, I returned to my country more convinced than ever to continue working with the NGO and increase even more the impact. Additionally, being recognised abroad as an ambassador for One Young World was an incredible boost to my networking at an international level and gave me the possibility to reach out to different high-level authorities, including presidents and ministers, and I feel empowered to do so by seeking to open these doors for more changemakers in Chile, Latin America and the world.”
Entreprenelle
Rania is Founder and CEO of Entreprenelle, the social enterprise supporting and economically empowering Egyptian women through education, training, and connecting them with entrepreneurship resources. Rania was inspired by her experiences as a young women entrepreneur to assist other women in entrepreneurial spaces. Entreprenelle’s work has four pillars: raising awareness, providing education, offering access to resources, and fostering economic development to aspiring women entrepreneurs.
Rania attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022, during which she had the opportunity to speak with international media about her work, leading to significant exposure for Entreprenelle. Rania has stayed in touch with Ambassadors from Algeria, Lebanon, and Egypt, collaborating on Entreprenelle’s content production, events, and networks.
Entreprenelle has directly impacted 300,000 women throughout its programmes, initiatives and events. Its flagship day-long event, SHE CAN, has had 40,000 attendees in more than 20 cities. SHE CAN mini-events have reached 5,000 women with entrepreneurship training in partnership with 10 universities. Entreprenelle’s acceleration programmes, focused on fashion, food, and crafts, offer training on business management, product development skills, on-site visits to factories, and meetings with potential business partners. Entreprenelle has also launched the Elle Studio in the Mall of Egypt to offer women-owned businesses a place to showcase and sell their products. The organisation is now working with more than 5,000 projects annually, with 40% still operational after three years compared to a national average of 12%. These projects have in turn created 100,000 jobs with Entreprenelle’s support.
“At the Summit, I was connected with media opportunities to talk about SHE CAN and my entrepreneurial journey, which was a boom for us. The visibility it gave me was amazing and it helped me create a network of support and people interested in my work outside of Egypt.”
Marine Debris Warrior (Gajahlah Kebersihan)
Marine Debris Warrior (Gajahlah Kebersihan) - Indonesia
Dicky Dwi Alfandy
Ambassador-led Initiative
2
SROI
Dicky founded Marine Debris Warrior (Gajahlah Kebersihan), a non-profit organisation empowering coastal communities in Indonesia by cleaning the coastline, creating job opportunities and a circular economy, and offering educational programmes. It provides four solutions: evidence-based research, education, ecopreneurship and eco-edutourism. Marine Debris Warrior launched SEA Mama, a social enterprise led by coastal mothers who recycle plastic waste into crafts and sell them. Its Eco Roster is a ventilation brick made from recycled plastic, with the organisation collecting around 400 kg of waste daily six days a week. Marine Debris Warrior provides eco-edutourism activities to people interested in a combination of educational and recreational activities, including waste management in coastal community houses and nature tours.
Dicky attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022. He was able to discuss collaboration between government and social initiatives with Jonathan Dewsbury, Director of Capital Operations and Net Zero at the UK Department of Education. This encouraged him to work in partnership with governmental bodies to broaden his impact, and Marine Debris Warrior will provide expertise in managing recycling facilities to the government in 2024.
Marine Debris Warrior has educated 30,100 people in climate education through workshops, youth summits, and door-to-door activities. It has provided small grants of five million Indonesian rupiah to 18 groups of children working on eco-innovation. The SEA Mama initiative has empowered 20 coastal mothers economically, while the organisation has collected and recycled 130 tonnes of waste, including 2.3 tonnes of marine debris. Marine Debris Warrior has also educated 1,000 tourists.
“The biggest impact of One Young World for me has been the platform it represents. It has given me a wonderful network with social activists, working on environmental and other issues. It gives me courage and motivation to do so much more.”
Samaky Hub
Proscovia is the Founder of Samaky Hub, a social enterprise that offers consulting services to fish farmers and organisations working with them throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Proscovia, who is personally familiar with the challenges faced by women in the industry, founded Samaky Hub to support women in aquaculture and small-scale fish farmers. The organisation is the sister company of Ressect, an enterprise co-founded by Proscovia that farms Black Soldier Fly (BSF) larvae as an alternative sustainably-sourced protein for fish feed formulation.
Proscovia attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022. She was a panellist on building resilient and sustainable agriculture systems and was inspired by her experience to encourage her fellow young leaders in Kenya to apply to attend.
Since its inception, Samaky Hub has provided training to 200 fish farmers, focusing on aquaculture management, best farming practices, value addition, environmental impact mitigation, business management, and financial literacy. Furthermore Ressect has trained 150 farmers on insect farming, resulting in five farmers establishing their own farm colonies. Additionally, with Ressect, Proscovia offers farmers the opportunity to purchase insect larvae for animal feed, reducing fish feed costs by up to 37%. Proscovia's vision goes beyond provision; she's working to create a circular business model where Ressect and Samaky Hub collaborate to offer sustainable and affordable protein diets, including buying back insect protein from the farmers they work with.
“I got an opportunity to speak on stage at the Summit about my work with other leaders who are trying to make a change, that was an amazing and exciting opportunity for me. I also enjoyed networking with like-minded individuals who are trying to create a change in their community and learning about their stories. Despite us coming from very diverse backgrounds and very diverse industries, it really showed me how people are committed.”
How to use to the SDG Tracker
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- Business for Social Good: written case studies for initiatives ran by corporate partner organisations, led by young Ambassadors/employees.
- Leadership Biographies: short biographies of Ambassadors who are growing into influential leaders for social good in some of the world’s largest companies, organisations, and in government.
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