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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Mica Educa
Mica Educa is the first Peruvian organization created fully by Youth for Youth that focuses on the accomplishment of SDG 4 and SDG 10 by training low-income communities, students, and teenagers on leadership, artistic and STEM abilities, and capacity-building knowledge so they can become the leaders of their own areas.
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Msamaria Mwema Children's Home Sanitation Improvement Project
I'd hope to work with the Fresh like organization in Nairobi Kenya to install sustainable sanitation facilities that would serve the children of the Msamaria Mwema Children's home. The availability of safe sanitation is something every child deserves so my goal is to allow for these children to have this safe and sustainable access.
