Meet the Fellows
Browse the project profiles of the 2023 Sprout Ideas Fellows:
Adolphina Wilson
Project: Africentric Picnic Basket Project
Toronto, ON
Food & Health
The Africentric Picnic Basket Project is a Community Event featuring content creation, network-building opportunities, and skills-sharing workshops for youth parents and families from the GTHA community including seniors, at-risk youth, persons with disabiliti...
View Profile
..webp)
Aimee Yurris
Project: Youth & Elder Cooking Classes
Yellowknife, NT
Food & Health
My project included three main activities: Kitchen Talks, Apron Sewing Workshop, and Community Cookbook. I partnered with several local youth-serving organizations including Home Base YK, the Tree of Peace Friendship Centre, Communities Building Youth Futures...
View Profile
Zara Uddin
Project: South Asian Women's Health Association (SAWHA)
Markham, ON
Food & Health
South Asian Women's Health Association (SAWHA) is dedicated to empower middle-aged South Asian immigrant women to prioritize their health and wellbeing.
View Profile
Yolanda Ding
Project: Sweet Spring Cares
Scarborough, ON
Education
Sweet Spring Cares is a care package program that provides resources to elementary school students and their families in lower-income communities in Scarborough. These packages include stationery items, empowering prompts/activities, and more. The intention is...
View Profile
Aaliyah Mahboubi
Project: SPARK9
Vancouver, BC
Education
The SPARK9 Project was a series of nine initiatives that brought youth together between June and November 2023 in the spirit of service. Each project connected to a UN sustainable development goal and allowed us to focus on a particular theme. Our first projec...
View Profile
Vedanshi Vala
Project: The Rural Safety Network by BOLT Safety Society
Richmond, BC
Housing & Safety
The Rural Safety Network by BOLT Safety Society is a multi-faceted endeavor to grow the organization's existing programming in urban communities to more rural and remote areas of British Columbia in an effort to combat sexual violence. This will include expand...
View Profile
Tori Ford
Project: Medical Herstory
Montreal, QC
Education
Medical Herstory is an award-winning youth-led non-profit on a mission to eliminate sexism, shame, and stigma from health experiences. The organization advances gender health equity through medical education, patient advocacy, and undoing stigma. With over 100...
View Profile
..webp)
Zanna Ekeroth
Project: Babes in the Bluffs - Climbing Mentorship Program
Penticton, BC
Sports & Recreation
Babes in the Bluffs is a mentorship program for women and gender diverse climbers in the Skaha Bluffs. Through community-building, peer-to-peer learning and skills workshops, we want to provide a place for people who face gender-based barriers in the sport of ...
View Profile
Tooba Dawood
Project: Global Taleem
Toronto, ON
Education
("Taleem" is an Arabic term that translates to "education") Global Taleem, incorporated under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, is a dynamic non-profit organization with a primary focus on empowering immigrants, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People o...
View Profile