Could TODAY be our first Plastic-Free Day?
Great news! Today, One Young World Plastic-Free Working Group is delighted to be championing two noteworthy events.
The social impact movement spreading across Silicon Valley
Women4Good started out as me just cooking breakfast for a few of my friends and it has already expanded beyond my dreams.
Today we have more than 700 members across the Bay Area in California and they are changing their own lives as well as those of thousands of others.
OYW Ambassadors speak alongside top officials at European Commission’s largest development conference
Two of Italy’s leading stateswomen, Federica Mogherini and Stefania Giannini, alongside the Senegalese singer/activist Youssou N’Dour, joined One Young World Ambassadors on stage in Brussels to target new ways to fight global inequality.
The high-level discussion, hosted by the European Commission this week, was moderated by One Young World Ambassador Ilwad Elman, the Somali-Canadian peace activist, and featured contributions from other Ambassadors, including Ousmane Ba from Guinea and Lina Khalifeh from Jordan.
How One Young World drove me to create shoes that leave the right footprint
Written by Luke Gibson. He is the Founder of Two Degrees and a OYW Ambassador from the UK. Two Degrees' Kickstarter page is now live.
I arrived at Bangkok in 2015 not really knowing what to expect.
I was doing Corporate Strategy at a multi-national Asset Management firm in London, and while I enjoyed what I was doing, I was still generally confused about what I wanted to do with my life.
Isn’t everyone to a certain extent?
It’s World Hunger Day: meet 5 women changing the way we think about food
This article was written by Jacob Dupont*
Today marks World Hunger Day, an initiative started in 2011 by The Hunger Project to celebrate sustainable solutions to hunger and poverty. With 815 million people, over one ninth of the world’s population, not having enough to eat and 98% of the world’s undernourished living in developing countries, the need to invest in the sustainable end of hunger has never been greater.
Queen’s Commonwealth Trust awards first grant to OYW Ambassador
One Young World Ambassador Joannes Yimbesalu was the first grant recipient of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust, a recently launched initiative supporting young leaders across the Commonwealth who are creating change in their communities.
We did a study on entrepreneurial muscle memory: here’s what we found
Written by Bozhanka Vitanova.
This entrepreneur’s device will revolutionise the way we save lives
*Written by Johann Kalchman, the Co-Founder and CEO of Lifeaz.
It’s a strange quirk of modern life that many people identified as at extremely high risk of cardiac arrest are more likely to survive a cardiac arrest than those of us apparently at low risk.
This is because we possess the technology to respond to cardiac arrest but it is so scarcely deployed and so little understood that if you suffer a sudden attack on the street your chances of survival are as low as five per cent.