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...
How Mabenge made history when he set out to be himself
2017 Fellowship Alumnus Landa Mabenge made history in 2014 when he became the first known transgender man in South Africa to have his surgeries funded....
Majorwaves Named Local Content Magazine of the Year
The Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria (OGTAN) recently awarded Majorwaves Energy Report (MER) the Best Local Content Magazine of the Year 2020.
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...