OYWConnects

The Young Catalyst is a platform created for conversations and stories of & from young leaders. The aim is to empower, encourage, educate and ignite young leaders to step into their power. The Young Catalyst conversations have touched on many important topics from unemployment, entrepreneurship, gay men's experiences in democratic South Africa, mental health, leadership and more. With Khanya's leadership, intellect and charming personality, it's a global platform that continues to touch on important societal topics by inviting some of the world's older and younger thought leaders from co-founder of One Young World, Kate Robertson, well known South African medical practitioner Dr Sindi Van Zyl, Young Award Winning Public Health Practitioner Dr Shakira Choonara & more.

Visas Iespējas (All Opportunities) is a youth opportunity platform, which combines and showcases various youth opportunities, such as scholarships, exchange programs, voluntary work etc. At the same time it provides job offers from the top companies in Latvia tailored towards youth. We try to bridge the gap between employers and youth not only by showcasing their job opportunities, but also by creating employer branding campaigns, organising offline events and recruiting young people for aforementioned companies.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/visasiespejas/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/visasiespejas/

UNHCR Global Youth Advisory Council (GYAC) serve as a consultative group on issues relating to the protection and development of young people who are refugees, internally displaced and/or stateless, and their communities.

1) Work with UNHCR and partners to operationalise and institutionalise the Core Actions for Refugee Youth;

2) Serve as a consultative group on issues relating to the protection and development of the young people that UNHCR works with globally, including those who are internally displaced and stateless;

3) Represent the voices of the young people that UNHCR works with and for, ensuring that their perspectives are heard, considered and incorporated into the work of UNHCR at national, regional and global levels;

4) Advise UNHCR on principled, practical and actionable solutions to youth-specific protection challenges linked to the Core Actions for Refugee Youth; and

5) Participate in various fora and events to advance the aims of young people and the work of UNHCR in addressing youth issues

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNHCRGYAC/

Jugos Masái is created to make a difference and change the reality we have lived in. We want to support the development of our region through entrepreneurship by helping to weave sustainable supply chains that motivate the growth of agricultural families around Chocó, with producing high quality nutritious juices with unique flavors without sugar.

AirPublic provides monitoring-as-a-service, we work with clients to provide bespoke air quality monitoring solutions using our proprietary IOT monitors, aiming to produce actionable insight rather than just data.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AirPublica

OK CHECK is a non-profit organization that aims to create a global platform using local languages to share uncommon success stories to inspire other people to act in their own and underprivileged communities. My wish with these audios messages is to sensitize and inspire a large number of individuals, to reveal their potential and generate vocations, together with a motivation to start acting.

Girls’ Pride is a social enterprise that started in 2017 as a result of period poverty affecting girls’ education in The Gambia. It provides reusable sanitary pads, period panties, pantyliners, online sexual and reproductive health education, and counselling services for women and girls. It also trains women and girls on menstrual health and hygiene management, training of trainers, training on reusable sanitary pad production, and uses comic story books to addresses sexual and reproductive health issues affecting adolescents in The Gambia. Girls’ Pride also provides reusable baby diapers. Girls’ Pride address menstrual health and hygiene management problems affecting less privileged women and girls, keep girls in schools during their periods, promotes maternal health and child health, creates employment opportunities for the youth especially women and girls, end inequalities, address gender-based violence against women and girls and reduce waste generated during menstruation and childhood.

LendKash® is a digital lending marketplace and investment platform, leveraging on technology to connect creditworthy borrowers with individual and institutional investors. Lendkash is a premium digital financial service that provides attractive return on investment and low rate to borrowers.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lendkash/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lendkash

Upper Egypt Opportunities Hub (UEOH) is the first Non-profit Virtual Community Hub in Upper Egypt which provides young people with access to knowledge, opportunities, and resources in different fields. One of the UEOH’s objectives is to develop effective citizenship & community-based development with the aim of promoting Justice, Peace, Equality and citizenship rights, dialogue and help young people their education goals. UEOH aims to create a physical space and scale up activities to be on-ground. They have been operating and providing their services for free since 2018.

LEW Power is an education program for girls and young people in Latin America in vulnerable situations and with limited economic resources. Such program is based in 4 fundamental pillars: Entrepreneurship, Self-esteem, leadership and financial education. Free workshops and courses are provided so that our target population can obtain better opportunities through education and in the future can develop their own business.

Among the themes they are delivered we may find: business model, accounting, the importance of effective handling of financial resources as well as their independence to achieve decision making for their lives. This project has benefited 360 people in rural communities in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and efforts are currently underway to continue through online workshops with the use of social media platforms.

It carries the component of Empowered Women that seeks to make their work visible as an added value. Our main priority is to promote gender equality within the work they do on a daily basis. We aim to "create and develop large and small businesses that generate wealth and create jobs."

Lew power is part of my personal brand @AdelaUbauh making alliances and support with companies, organizations and schools to benefit such initiatives and be a sustainable project.

The RJDLT is an associative, apolitical, non-profit platform whose main objective is to learn the concept of leadership in order to promote and foster excellence in practice, research and development in the youth field. Its vision is to be a main Network of Young Leaders and active for the development of Chadian and African youth.

Forum for the Development of Young People is a research based, career empowerment platform based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa that seeks to motivate and produce young and inspiring individuals that are from deprived backgrounds. The founding members thought it fit that to help alleviate poverty and reach the status quo of a successful individual, one must possess the ability to speak out, motivate and inspire others. The greatest asset that an organization will have is a group of people that will be able to explain to the world about how they have been touched by the organization and how they wish to make the world a better place.

Connected homeless is a UK registered digital charity using technology to transform giving. Donate directly via our app and we’ll convert into a digital coin, only to be used to purchase selected products locally.

ByFood.com is Japan’s one-stop platform for foodie travelers. Here, you can book food experiences like cooking classes and food tours, make easy restaurant reservations without using Japanese, read about Japanese food trends and culture, and watch videos featuring Japanese chefs and craftspeople.

Loop is a Hi-tech academy and a human accelerator for school-aged children and young adults. As a socially motivated organization, Loop educates, prepares, and guides the upcoming generations for the future through modern, personalized, and technology-driven approaches. As part of Loop's vision, Loop offers voluntary, introductory, computer-science, entrepreneurship programs for thousands of students annually, In addition, as a tech-incubator, Loop invests in talents, new ideas, and startups, by offering unique support to its young entrepreneurs (who are called Loopers).