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Learn more about our 2023 Sprout Ideas Fellows and their youth-led community projects.
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...
View ProfileAimee 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...
View ProfileZara 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.
View ProfileAaliyah 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...
View ProfileYolanda 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...
View ProfileYeganeh 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...
View ProfileYi-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...
View ProfileVedanshi 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...
View ProfileVanessa 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...
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