Peter Mabin is the initiator and coordinator of the Iodine Deficiency Project, which aims to eliminate iodine deficiency in rural communities in Papua New Guinea. The work started in his home province of Simbu. Iodine deficiency affects thousands of paediatric aged population in Papua New Guinea, especially those living in remote areas. The project was granted funding by UNICEF and the Iodine Global Network.

The Iodine Deficiency Project ‘s purpose is to identify the affected rural communities, raise awareness and provide education about the importance of iodine in a person’s diet for their health, and supply school aged children as well as women of child-bearing age with iodine supplements. Additionally, information is shared relating to addressing other important health issues relating to primary health care, and supplements such as vitamin A and albendazole to avoid blindness, hookworm infection or anaemia in the population.
 

Santiago Rocha is the Global Co-Impact Officer at YPO Next Generation (YNG), an organisation that aims to develop a generation of conscious international leaders. YNG provides its members with tools, opportunities, and networks for them to become future leaders.Around 23,000 YNG members have been impacted by opportunities to become impactful leaders.

Santiago currently serves in the Global Board, where he was the first Latin American to be part of it as well as the youngest member at 20 years. Previously, he worked in YNG LatAm, where he worked on employment opportunities for 75 YNG members as part of a program to face COVID-19 with impact-based job forces. Over 30 potential impact start-ups were managed in their Global Incubator, where Santiago was part of the leadership team.
 

Erika Cortes Acosta is the Project Director of Somos CaPAZes, an organisation working to promote the construction of peace in Colombia, both in cities and in rural areas. Somos CaPAZes was born because a group of young people who, aware of the violence and insensitivity generated by the armed conflict in Colombia, decided to educate for peace in order to empower communities and promote peaceful environments where values, rights, conflict resolution and commitment are central axes for coexistence and democracy in the country. More than 40,000 people have been impacted by their work since 2007.

Their programs seek to encourage a culture of peace, through dynamic and experiential activities around the promotion of human rights, non-violent conflict resolution, leadership and innovation; These topics involve managing emotions, communication techniques for families, and child and youth empowerment. In this way, it seeks to promote coexistence based on the construction of communities of peace.

Izat Ullah is the founder and Chairman of Chiragh Educational Welfare Society-(CEWS), a non-governmental, non-political and non-religious organisation. CEWS has aimed since 2017 to support children and people in vulnerable communities that have been denied access to education by providing them with life changing opportunities through access to education, workshops and training. Throughout his work, Izat has trained more than 25,000 people in career counselling, parenting counselling, peace building, youth leadership, etc.

More than 5,000 children residing in Pakistan have been enrolled into education thanks to the work of CEWS. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they ran the "Every home Classroom" campaign, which benefited more than 20,000 childrens across Pakistan who couldn’t attend school due to lockdowns. Izat hosted COVID-19 awareness sessions with 40,000school aged children and community 45,000members. Additionally, they had the "Back to School" project, which enrolled 1000 Afghan refugee girls in schools.

Francisco Cavalcante is the founder of Jaguaribara em Foco, a community platform for young people that offers local news and fact-checking, to combat misinformation through education. Since 2020, their mission has been to train low-income youth to become leaders in the semi-arid region and inform the community. The initiative has already reached more than 200 thousand people and was recognized by SaferNet and FactCheckLab.

Additionally, Francisco coordinates the +Conexões Program, which brings together more than 100 young leaders from the five regions of Brazil and offers more than 30 training and 400 mentoring sessions, in addition to a high-impact network of contacts for people and Brazilian social organisations. Within the Legal Grounds Institute, he is the co-lead of projects related to digital law, media education and data protection in comparative law.

Farida Bensadoun is a Global Packaging Innovation Engineer for AB InBev. Within her work, she collaborated on the Barley Straw Pack, a new packaging solution for a six-pack box of Corona beer. It was launched in Colombia on World Recycling Day 2021 with an initial 10,000-unit pilot run. Following its launch success, the packs have also been piloted in Argentina, Canada and France and other cereal straw sources investigated.

The Straw Pack is a more sustainable alternative that can use surplus straw to create strong packaging. The novel pulping process for the straw, in combination with fully recycled fibers, was developed by Sustainable Fiber Technologies (SFT). In addition to the circularity benefits, this pack could potentially create a new opportunity. Farmers in markets where the pack exists might sell the straw for the packaging formulation and thus help create a micro-economy. This technology won the Sustainability Award by Packaging Europe in 2022.