Adewunmi Akingbola Founder of HealthDrive Nigeria Biography Akingbola Adewunmi is a 21 year old Nigerian Medical student who is passionate about rewriting the menace of the Nigerian health system and particularly enthusiastic about ending the menace of hepatitis in Nigeria under the aegis of HealthDrive Nigeria, an initiative which he is the founder. His changemaking journey started at the age of 19. His social impact works was recognized by the United Nations through the Millennium Campus Network and TeachSDGs, where he was awarded as a Fellow and an Ambassador respectively. He was further r ..read more

Danielle Boyer Founder & CEO of STEAM Connection Biography: Danielle is an award-winning Indigenous teen who is recognized widely for her work as an entrepreneur, author, activist, and inventor, much of which orbits around educating children on the future of technology and innovation. For over ten years now, Danielle has been working to make key educational opportunities accessible. After witnessing how disparities between people of different socioeconomic statuses in access to quality technical education affect children, Danielle sought to transform her community by increasing technical ..read more

Christopher Atsen Yange CEO of Build to Help Foundation Biography: Christopher Atsen Yange is 25 year old Nigerian lawyer called to the Nigerian bar in 2016. He attended Benue state University where he got his degree in law (LLB) in 2015. He was president of Corps Legal Aid Council (CLAG) in Jos Plateau State. He is currently the CEO of Build to Help Foundation. He delved into the world of changemaking at the age of 24 with his initial project Build to Help. Build to Help Foundation - CEO: Build to Help Foundation is a non-governmental organization which came into existence in 2019. The orga ..read more

Bahati Buhendwa Founder of Refugees Global Talent-RGT Biography Bahati Buhendwa is a 21 year old Ugandan national from Mbarara. He is currently the Founder/managing director of Refugees Global Talent-RGT, since 2018 when he was 17 years old, an online platform for youths to nurture and express their talents to the globe aiming to turn their creative art into their profession for self-sustainability. He is also a performing artist and start-up business mentor consultant with great enthusiasm in design, entrepreneurship and innovation. He is passionate about art and aims to use the key principa ..read more

Adah Bitiah Chembo Founder of Lean On Foundation Biography Adah Bitiah Chembo is a 22-year-old female Zambian writer, literacy advocate and passionate agent of change. She is currently a final year student pursuing a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Demography and minoring Development Studies at The University of Zambia. Additionally, Adah has served as a flash fiction editor at Writers Space Africa from May 2018- December 2019. She is also currently an ambassador for the World Literacy Foundation ambassador program 2020. She has founded a youth organization named Lean On Foundation which is active ..read more

Annie Bocock Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Art for Messy Beings (AFMB) Biography: Annie’s articles have appeared in the Guardian and BBC Bitesize, amongst other publications, reflecting on her struggle with mental health. She has served as the Co-President of her SU’s RAG (Raising and Giving) network. Annie continued to make change in her community and dedicated herself to building her skills after she dropped out of university. She delivered her own TEDx talk in university on mental health in November 2019, and still writes and talks about mental health as a Press Ambassador for Stu ..read more

Larissa Aniceto Founder of The Children We Want Biography: Larissa Aniceto has experience in human resources and social responsibility. She co-founded the project "The Children We Want", fostering the development of gender equity and female empowerment through the Choice Ambassadors Program. She was a Brazilian Youth Delegate at the 57th Commission for Social Development in New York, United States of America, at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The Children We Want - Founder: The project "The Children We Want" was developed in the Choice Movement, guided by Sustainable ..read more

This month had its fair share of international days, from International Day of the World’s Indigenous people to International Humanitarian Day (you can check them all out on International Days | United Nations).  Of course, as a young Changemaker, I was drawn to International Youth Day and the theme for this year. “Youth Engagement for Action” the theme reads. “It’s your time to lead” I heard.  The theme pushed me to find out just how many youth-led organisations working on Human Rights existed. The internet does not really have conclusive information on this. Now just imagine if you ..read more

The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner is a woman. At 17 years old, Malala Yousafzai realised she had the power to change the world positively. At 17 years old I admit I was more concerned about prom. Yet on the other side of the world, a 17-year-old was creating an organization that in two years of its operation has reached hundreds of thousands of young people.   Alexandra Brady-Miné, the founder of The Human Projects, started the organisation at 17 years old. Our #WCW is a remarkable young woman who used the little she had to do big things and start an organisation that would promo ..read more

Tokosi has participated in several Human Projects Programs including Young Human Rights Changemakers, Social Justice in Our Community, Education in Our Community, and Exploring Human Rights. Tokosi shared their experience participating in the Social Justice in Our Community program with The Change! On Tuesday 25th of February, 2020, I and and some other volunteers had an interactive session with students of United Secondary School Ilorin, Kwara, Nigeria of age group 11-14 we discussed social justice in our community and the topic discrimination was discussed using the aids provided by human p ..read more