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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BEYOND THE SHAME
In Kenya, period poverty and stigma force many girls to miss school, limiting their education and future opportunities. Beyond the Shame tackles this crisis by teaching students to make affordable, reusable pads from banana fiber—a sustainable, locally sourced material—while providing vital menstrual health education.
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Bitácora Global: Conferencia de Oportunidades
La Bitácora global plantea una medida de difusión masiva en relación a oportunidades académicas, culturales y de voluntariado a modo de una conferencia interactiva en la que adolescentes que entren en el rango de edad de 12 a 18 años de edad puedan acceder a información con respecto a intercambios…
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Bologna Youth in Action
This project aims to take the action, passion and ideas brought through the Festival of Hope we hosted last year to local schools in the community. To build and grow connections between our schools so that the next generation of changemakers is diverse and inclusive and empowered to take action!