Welcome to November! Young people are proving that impossible is nothing. They are taking risks, breaking records and making history – this highlights our feature for…
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Happy New Month and Welcome to October 2015! Our Young Person of the Month is Lucinda (Lucy) Athieno from Uganda. Lucy makes reusable sanitary Eco-Pads to support…
Happy New Month and Welcome to September! We’re pleased to announce our Young Person of the month, Charles Onu from Nigeria. The 26-year old Canada-based social…
Happy International Youth Day! Today, we celebrate all young people across the world doing amazing stuff, working actively in their communities to improve the lives of…
Your life, your opportunity! Happy New Month! We’re pleased to introduce I Wayan Alit Sudarsana from Indonesia as the Opportunity Desk Young Person of the Month…
Happy New Month! We are pleased to introduce the June 2015 Young Person of the Month, Adepeju Opeyemi Jaiyeoba from Nigeria. The 31 year old is a…
We are pleased to share this news with you. Finalists have been announced for the Technovation Challenge 2015. Starting with a call for application, Technovation challenged girls from across…
Welcome to M-A-Y! Miracles Await You OpportunityDesk is pleased to introduce the Young Person of the Month (YPOM) for May 2015, Victoria Ibiwoye from Nigeria. The…
Women Deliver has announced the selection of 200 new and exceptional young advocates who will join the organization’s Young Leaders Program—a three-year fellowship opportunity for young people under…
Did you apply for the 2015 UNAOC-EF Summer School? Or someone you know? Well, the 75 participants for the 2015 Summer School have been selected from across…
The United Nations Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) has selected 48 inspiring youth activists and leaders from across the world on the basis of their current engagement…
Happy New Month and welcome to April 2015! We are pleased to announce that Memory Mushininga from Zimbabwe is the Opportunity Desk Young Person of the…
March 23, 2015 The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) has unveiled the first 1000 African entrepreneurs from across all five regions that will transform Africa. TEEP is…
Happy New Month, welcome to March! This month, our Opportunity Desk Young Person of the Month is Adrian Bannon, a 30 year old author, lawyer, lecturer…
Happy New Month of Love. We are excited to introduce our February 2015 Young Person of the Month – Kalenga Kamwendo, the youngest commercial pilot in…