Read the first-place prize-winning poem from the YALI 10 Competition by Chidzani Mbenge, 2019 Fellowship Alumna from Botswana.
Alumna Wins Prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for Advocacy Campaign
For more than five years, Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, a 30-year-old Malawian environmental activist, has waged a David v Goliath battle against some of the country's largest...
She Grew Up Without Books. Now She’s Fighting for Literacy for Every Child.
Morine Wairimu Mwangi, 2019 Fellowship Alumna from Kenya, loved reading while growing up, but she often didn’t have access to books. Now she’s bringing books...
Incorporating the arts into healthcare
Recently, the United States Consulate General in Nigeria, in collaboration with Tender Arts Nigeria, unveiled an “Arts and Medicine Innovation Hub” hosted at the Federal...
500 Women with Disabilities Supported Through U.S. Government Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund
Project Enable, a program supported by the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund has trained 500 women with disabilities and caregivers in entrepreneurial and digital marketing skills...
Fellowship Alumni Featured in One Young World 2020 Annual Impact Report
We are proud that 8 Fellowship Alumni were featured in One Young World's 2020 Annual Impact Report. One Young World is a global forum that...
Preserving Folklore Through the Art of Storytelling
As a storyteller and artist, 2019 Fellowship Alumna Elizabeth Mwambulukutu of Tanzania collaborates with tribal leaders in eastern Tanzania to record local folklore through her...
A Free and Fair Media Starts With Us
Margaret Lole, a 2019 Fellowship Alumna from South Sudan, believes that it is up to young people to ensure that their countries have a free...
Voices of Exchange Podcast: From Bullets to Books
On this episode, 2018 Fellowship Alumnus Jok Abraham Thon, founder and director of Promised Land Secondary School in South Sudan, shares how he is advancing...
Meet the Journalist Holding a Mirror Up To Society in Mauritius
Djemillah Mourade Peerbux, a 2019 Fellowship Alumna and news editor for the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation, strives to raise journalistic standards across her country.