Edward Yee is the co-founder of Givfunds Social Ventures, a non-profit organisation which provides sustainable and low-cost capital to neglected social enterprises using data from local communities. The organisation has impacted over 45,000 lives directly, over 900,000 lives indirectly and has helped many social enterprises raise multimillion-dollar funding from a range of high-profile funds. But …
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Entrepreneurship & Employment | Networking | Youth Development | Youth Networks
LCOY Sri Lanka 2025: Redefining What It Means to Be Heard
September 19by Viranga Wijayasinghe, Commonwealth Asia Youth Alliance Advocacy Fellow Sri Lanka had a peculiar w …
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Environment & Climate Change | Youth Work
From Echoes to Impact: How Young People Are Leading Climate Action in Asia
July 17by Muskaan Anand, Asia Regional Representative, Commonwealth Youth Council The youth of Asia are no …
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Gender Equity | Peace and Justice
She was a Minor, not a TikToker, Call Sana Yousaf’s murder what it is — A Femicide
June 7by Ramna Saeed Sana Yousaf, a minor girl with dreams and hopes recently became prey of institutional …
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In 2015, Sarita Sahu, then twelve years old, noticed a small outgrowth from her breast. Ignoring it, she continued her routine of study and play like most other seventh graders would. Two years went by and she had no significant pain or ailment. Still, the outgrowth on her breast had grown larger. Fearing what it …
Climate change is an undeniably dangerous aspect of our present and future. This shift in global weather patterns – mostly caused by human activity – is taking place rapidly. Although the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in lockdowns and economic slowdown, these factors did not decrease the expediting negative impacts of climate change, according to a report …
Climate change is an undeniably dangerous aspect of our present and future. This shift in global weather patterns – mostly caused by human activity – is taking place rapidly. Although the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in lockdowns and economic slowdown, these factors did not decrease the expediting negative impacts of climate change, according to a report …
An HIV-positive young woman describes her work as a Commonwealth Youth Ambassador for Positive Living Pooja Thakur, 27, is a Commonwealth Youth Ambassador for Positive Living (YAPL). She was diagnosed with HIV in her early twenties soon after she lost her husband to the disease. She is one of the estimated 2.27 million people currently …
‘Your attitudes and leadership consistency will be pivotal’ — Deputy Secretary-General It was a day for ceremony and celebration in Chandigarh yesterday (weds) as the Commonwealth’s newly-elected youth leadership took their oaths in an hour-long Installation Ceremony Presided over by the Deputy Secretary-General Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba. On Tuesday, at a special Youth Leaders’ Conference in the …
A Commonwealth citizen is generally described as a person, who is a national of any country within the Commonwealth of Nations. Under this organization, these nations agree to support the values and principles of the Commonwealth which addresses key matters such as democracy, equality, as well as access to health and education. This simple description …
The Social Studies Department of the Open University of Sri Lanka launched the Diploma in Youth Development at a function held Saturday (8) at the auditorium of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Development in Narahenpita. Minister of Youth Affairs and Skills Development Dullas Alahapperuma, Vice Chancellor of the OUSL Prof. Upali Vidhanapathirana and …
The Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry will conduct five technical workshops at the Tomorrow’s Leaders Summit to be held in March. Its deputy minister, Datuk Fadillah Yusof, said the ministry had contributed RM143,000 for the summit which “encourages our youth to embrace science, technology and innovation as the enabler of a high-income economy”. About 1,000 …
PUNE: Indian Youth Congress (IYC) national president Rajiv Satav has said that about 80-85 per cent office bearers of the Maharashtra Youth Congress would come from non-political background. “The general trend in politics is of promoting scions of politicians and only youth having political background have so far received plum posts. For the first time in history, the …
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