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Adolphina Wilson

Project Details: 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...

Aimee Yurris

Project Details: 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...

Zara Uddin

Project Details: 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.

Aaliyah Mahboubi

Project Details: 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...

Yolanda Ding

Project Details: 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...

Yeganeh Rasouli

Project Details: The Health Empowerment Initiative

Windsor, ON

The Health Empowerment Initiative began by distributing care packages containing PPE and essential items to the clients of the Downtown Mission in Windsor, Ontario, during the COVID-19 pandemic. While delivering these packages, it became evident that the clien...

Yi-Fan Ada Wang

Project Details: DAWN Against Trafficking – Eradicating Human Trafficking Through Empowerment and Education.

Etobicoke, ON

Founded in 2021, DAWN Against Trafficking (formerly Future Unchained Toronto) is the largest Torotonian youth-led non-profit dedicated to combating human trafficking. At DAWN, we believe that empathy and education are the key to empowering survivors and elimin...

Vedanshi Vala

Project Details: 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...

Vanessa Ciofani

Project Details: The Youth Empowerment Sorting Hat Initiative

Oakville, ON

The Youth Empowerment Sorting Hat Initiative has a similar setup to the house sorting in Harry Potter and aims to enhance collaboration skills, diversity, and leadership development among students. By assigning individuals to different houses, it encourages th...