Awardees & Projects
We are honored to be supporting young people all over the world to take action around issues that they care deeply about.
With the Global Youth Action Fund (GYAF), IB is proud to award micro-grants to support young people’s innovative ideas and projects addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
We are happy to have announced and celebrated two cohorts of awardees from 2023 and 2024 representing over 400 youth from 60 countries.
GYAF is an award open to any student or student group ages 12 through 19 who has a project or idea they believe will make an impact in their community. Each project must be aimed to support one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
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FLY FOR HOPE
Our project is a drone football initiative aimed at empowering children living in earthquake-affected regions through technology and sports. Within the scope of this project, children acquire skills such as drone operation, teamwork, strategy development, and problem-solving, while also receiving psychosocial support.
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From Art to Income
Our project is dedicated to empowering local female artisans by bridging the gap between their traditional skills and the global marketplace. Currently, these women are forced to sell their handmade products to middlemen, who claim the majority of the profits, leaving the artists with minimal earnings.
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Fundamentos do Dinheiro
Fundamentos do dinheiro is a social project founded in 2021 by three friends interested in finance. Based in the city of Curitiba in the state of Paraná, Brazil, the idea of the project was to bring financial education to the public in a simple, objective, modern and free manner.