Mentoring Women Entrepreneurs
The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women’s flagship Mentoring Women in Business programme leverages the caring power of volunteers and technology to connect mentors to women entrepreneurs around the world over the course of a year…
Corporate Volunteers Training Young People
Worldwide there are 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24 – the largest-ever population of young people…
Financial Literacy Training
In Ecuador, the Bank of Guayaquil created the Compañeros de Banca, an initiative that engaged employee volunteers to improve the financial knowledge of 15,800 people…
Empowering Young People
Despite the stress and uncertainty of the COVID-19 crisis, young people in Jordan have stepped up to create positive change in their communities…
Helping Youth with Career Planning
United Way Brazil trained and paired corporate volunteer mentors from Lilly, Morgan Stanley and PwC with young people aged 16-25 seeking assistance in career planning…
Training Refugees for Job Interviews
United Way the Netherlands (UW-NL) and Salesforce ran a professional training program for displaced persons for the last few months of 2021…
Providing Employment Training
“On the 6th of September 2021, United Way South Africa (UWSA) kicked off their entrepreneurial training program for unemployed and marginalized individuals…
Empowering Farming Communities in Ghana
In Ghana, the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is committed to empowering communities by providing them with various resources, opportunities, and skills…
Rural Electrification and Employment Opportunities
In 2018 Mercy Chelangat decided to become a full-time volunteer for the IEEE Power & Energy Society’s Kenya Chapter…
Entrepreneurial Solar Power
Flora upper secondary school in Norway and Nkhotakota youth organisation in Malawi have conducted an exchange with young entrepreneurs, resulting in the formation of a solar power company Kumudzi Kuwale…
Sustainable Energy
Since 2016, the City of Lille in France and the Municipality of Oujda in Morocco have jointly led the Decentralized Cooperation Project for Sustainable Energy…
Developing New Energy Sources in Comoros
In Comoros, a cooperative society named SHAWIRI-scoops, partially funded by the UNDP (United Nations Development Program), aims to educate and empower the local community in waste management and recycling…
Youth Provide Clean Water, Sanitation and More
Awareness 360 is a global, youth-led organization, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that empowers young people to do community service projects in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…
Skills Based Support for Clean Water
In collaboration with government, partners and volunteers, Water For People helps provide communities, families, schools, and health clinics in Cuchumuela and San Pedro with access to reliable water service…
Tapping Rainwater
Uneven rainfall and run off have depleted the ground water in Bengaluru, India, contributing to a groundwater crisis in the region…
Improving Outcomes for Women
For Ekin Su Yilmaz from Turkey, joining UN Women as a UN Youth Volunteer was her life-long dream…
Educating Girls in Nepal
In Nepal VSO is working to promote access to the education for marginalised girls through the “Sisters for Sisters” programme, funded by DFID…
Empowering Women in Jordan
In Jordan, as women are facing all forms of violence, Girl Guides launched a project with the purpose of spreading awareness among the Girl Guides, school students, and local community of womens’ rights as stipulated by religion, constitution, and human rights, as well as empower women throughout society in all social, economic, and political fields…
Becoming Kinder and More Compassionate
As a volunteer with Piece of My Heart Foundation (POMHF), Oluwatoyin Olayemi helps teenagers understand the concept of sex education and how to live a healthy, and purposeful life…
Increasing Women Participation
In Burkina Faso, volunteers from the Programme National de Volontariat du Burkina Faso strengthened the participation of women in the 2020 electoral process…
Do you know of other successes?
We’d like to hear how an organization you know is advancing progress toward UN SDG’s.