The Hub: Food security education in a changing climate

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).
Buy42 Community

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Buy42 Community

Awardee Reduced inequality China
BUY42 is China’s first chain of charity stores, with over 50% of its staff consisting of people with disabilities.
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Canvas to Classrooms

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Canvas to Classrooms

Awardee Education Ghana
We are the Canvas to Classrooms Team, doing a project under the Red-Strokes Foundation (a small non-profit focused on solving humanitarian problems within our society through art-funding).
Global Youth Action Fund
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Casa Nicolo

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Casa Nicolo

Awardee Reduced inequality Colombia
Casa Nicolo is a social project that provides education and integral support to vulnerable migrant children from Venezuela in Villanueva.
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Casa Nicolo(2)

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Casa Nicolo(2)

Awardee Reduced inequality Colombia
Casa Nicolo is a social project that provides education and integral support to vulnerable migrant children from Venezuela in Villanueva.
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Caspian Sea Oxygen Monitoring: A Student-Led Sensor Project

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Caspian Sea Oxygen Monitoring: A Student-Led Sensor Project

Awardee Life under water Kazakhstan
Our project focuses on the problem of low dissolved oxygen levels in the Caspian Sea, particularly in the coastal area near Aktau, Kazakhstan. This issue can harm fish and other marine organisms and may lead to fish deaths, which affects the entire ecosystem.
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Chaslife Woodworks Initiative

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Chaslife Woodworks Initiative

Awardee Education Zambia
Our project includes us working together with a tertiary education institution called Chaslife University, which provides free education of theoretical and vocational knowledge.
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Check-In

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Check-In

Awardee Health and Well-being India
At the heart of it, Project Check In’s central aim is to ameliorate the existing gaps in women’s healthcare, particularly for women from socio-economically marginalized communities.
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Choking Rivers: The Water Hyacinths

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Choking Rivers: The Water Hyacinths

Awardee Life under water Thailand
In Suphan Buri, Thailand, the overgrowth of the invasive species commonly known as “water hyacinths” is altering the river conditions that locals are reliant on: traveling by boat through the hyacinth-covered water surface is increasingly difficult, and the resulting blocked sunlight and depleted…
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CintaIndo

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CintaIndo

Awardee Education Indonesia
CINTAINDO is a youth-led nonprofit organization that seeks to improve access to education through holistic measures in disadvantaged areas of Indonesia.
Global Youth Action Fund
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