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Illuminating education: Y&Y Fellow Kiko Muuo funded by the United Nations
Angaza Elimu, the name of Kiko Muuo’s business, is Swahili for ‘illuminated education’. It’s a very fitting name to what the business does: it highlights the gaps in the Kenyan education system, and comes up with enlightened solutions to the identified problems. Kiko...
Leave no one behind: ensuring an inclusive future
Today we hosted our last Webinar of our August Series. We were joined by 5 of our fellows from Nigeria, Mozambique, Bangladesh, France and Kenya to discuss about Ensuring an inclusive future. Our fellows talked about the importance of diversity and inclusivity,...
The Role of Diversity in the New Normal
We are stronger together! Today we hosted our 4th Webinar in our August Webinar Series to celebrate International Youth Day! Our fellows had a very insightful and inspiring discussion about what Diversity means in today's world and the many challenges and...
#YouthDay: The Role of Youth in the “New” Normal
When you take a chance you can change the world. To celebrate International Youth Day we hosted a Webinar to discuss about The Role of Youth in the "New" Normal. We were joined by four of our Y&Y fellows and talked about breaking stereotypes of generations,...
Avina Ajit: Turning compassion into a business
Avina Ajit is the co-founder of a non-profit organisation that is based on making available the human right to access for refugees and other migrant communities. She remembers hearing about the plight of refugees around the world from a young age. She saw a large...
The Role of Social Entrepreneurs to Build a Sustainable Future
Today we continued with our August Webinar Series with a wonderful session on The Role of Social Entrepreneurs to build a Sustainable Future. We discussed about the reality that Social Entrepreneurs in different parts of the world have been facing due to the...
A Measure of Success – Introducing Y&Y’s Social Impact Assessment and Strategy for New Ventures
Yunus & Youth exists to empower young people around the world – young people passionate about making a change, and who are working on ideas that come from an intimate knowledge of their local contexts. The Fellowship may only last six months but during that time...
Turning crisis into opportunities
Today our August Webinar Series about Building the New "Normal": Social Entrepreneurship after COVID-19 officially begun! We were joined by 5 of our fellows to discuss about turning crisis into opportunities, the challenges of social entrepreneur in today's context,...
Meet the Fellow: Chido Dzinotyiwe
Y&Y Fellow Chido Dzinotyiwei, a 23-year-old woman from Zimbabwe, is the director and co-founder of the Zimbabwe Economic Youth Forum (ZEYF). Born in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, she later moved to South Africa with her parents. Chido graduated with...
Diversity Manifesto Launch: We are ALL invited to the party!
On Thursday July 23rd, we hosted our Diversity Manifesto Launch Webinar. This initiative came in light of the events that the world has witnessed regarding diversity and social justice in the past months. As Yunus & Youth, we want to reaffirm our commitment...
