Stories of change

Changing the face of politics
13th September 2021
Young people hold the power to transform societies. The recent Zambian election and the central role young people played are evidence of this (...)

Women-led climate strike
28th June 2021
Courageous young women organising a powerful movement for climate justice in Bangladesh.

NO MORE SEX FOR GRADES
01st July 2020
Students are starting to speak out on the sexual harassment that has infected the Kenyan campuses for far too long

There's more to life
04th March 2020
This is the story of Kamé and how art sparks hope and creates spaces for youth activism across one of the most unequal and violent regions in the world

SCHOOLS FOR PALESTINE
02nd October 2019
In Palestine a youth group organised their peers to do advocacy and mobilise funds to reclaim the right to education for the next generation

FEMINIST FRIDAYS
08th March 2019
Once a month for more than a year these young activists have gathered people with different backgrounds to put feminism on the Zambian agenda.

TOGETHER AGAINST CHILD MARRIAGE
12th September 2018
A group of young feminists from Bangladesh contributes to stopping child marriages through dialogue and information.

BOOST THE MINIMUM WAGE
01st May 2018
Through creative activism a group of young activists contributed to concrete improvements for low-income families in el salvador.

EQUAL ACCESS TO WATER
05th February 2018
A group of young activists from Kenya gather decision-makers and ensure fair distribution of clean water.

Fight the garbage
08th December 2017
Doly and Borsha took matters into own hands and invented a new community-based system for collecting garbage.

IMPROVING THE NATIONAL SECURITY INSURANCE
12th November 2017
A long-standing unjust social protection system in the Occupied Palestinian Territory was suddenly challenged by Sameer and his friends.

I’m two different people
09th October 2017
A mother who hopes that her daughter “recovers her health”, a lifelong lie and a society that still isn’t open to homosexuality. This is the everyday life for the 25-year old Kenyan Carliste.

YOUNG PEOPLE ORGANISE AGAINST METALLIC MINING
05th September 2017
Creative, youth-driven campaigning has contributed to historic law against metallic mining in El Salvador.

”Now I have voted for myself”
11th August 2017
In August 2017 there was a lot at stake for the 24-year-old Salome Nzuki. For the first time, she ran for a seat in the County Government in Kenya and hoped to get the opportunity to show women, that they have a place in Kenyan politics.

The Kenyan youth have a responsibility
08th August 2017
Today the Kenyans are going to the polls, but beneath the voting paper lurks the fear that their democratic right will have a violent ending.

CAMPAIGNING FOR A PEACEFUL ELECTION
11th February 2017
Under the slogan: “Make peace win” these young people from Ghana helped ensuring the peaceful presidential election in 2016.
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