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Lake Restoration Project

Youth Organization: Uru Uru Team

Project Category: Nature-based Solutions

Sub-category: Indigenous Communities

Country, Region: Bolivia, Central South America

The Uru Uru Lake Restoration Project is an Indigenous women- and youth-led initiative focused on restoring the heavily contaminated Lake Uru Uru in Bolivia.

The project integrates Indigenous ecological knowledge with nature-based and community-driven solutions to address pollution caused by mining runoff, urban waste, and ecosystem degradation.

The project is driven by the urgent need to protect our Indigenous territory, health, and livelihoods, and by the belief that Indigenous knowledge and youth leadership are essential to achieving lasting environmental justice and climate resilience.
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Kilimo Smart Initiative - Community and Solution
Uluguru Pilot Water & Agriculture Demonstration

Youth Organization: Kilimo Smart Initiative

Project Category: Sustainable Agriculture

Sub-Category: Technology and Innovation

Country, Region: Tanzania, East Africa

Located in the drought-prone Uluguru foothills of Tanzania, this youth-led initiative directly addresses the twin crises of water scarcity and food insecurity. Kilimo Smart Initiative (KSI) is constructing essential water infrastructure including a protected spring and rainwater harvesting system to serve the community.

Simultaneously, we are installing a 0.25-hectare drip irrigation demonstration plot to teach water-efficient farming. Using a "train-the-trainer" model, we are empowering 15 youth leaders (Local Action Groups) to train 60 smallholder farmers in climate-smart techniques like mulching and composting.

Our project directly tackles climate change impacts by building community resilience to severe drought and erratic rainfall. 

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Youth for Nepal
Chiuri for Climate and Livelihood

Youth Organization: Youth for Good Nepal

Project Category: Nature-based Solutions

Sub-category: Environmental Conservation

Country, Region: Nepal, South Asia

This project addresses the intertwined challenges of environmental degradation and socio-economic marginalization within the indigenous Chepang community in Benighat Rorang, Nepal. We aim to restore degraded ecosystems by planting 250 native Chiuri trees (Diploknema butyracea), which are essential for stabilizing fragile, landslide-prone slopes and preventing soil erosion.

Rampant deforestation, biodiversity loss, and soil erosion have devastated Benighat Rorang’s fragile hillsides, causing frequent landslides that threaten the Chepang community’s safety and livelihood. Only 34.65% of households report food sufficiency, and nearly 90% live below the poverty line, surviving on minimal income. 

This project empowers Indigenous Chepang youth to restore land by planting native Chiuri trees that heal soil, revive ecosystems, and create sustainable income—bringing hope, resilience, and a brighter future.

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Generacion por el Desarrollo
Mi Río, Mi Comunidad

Youth Organization: Generacion por el Desarrollo

Project Category: Nature-based Solutions

Sub-Category: Waste Management

Country, Region: Dominican, The Carribean

Mi Río, Mi Comunidad is a youth-led project developed in the
coastal community of Río Salado, La Romana, where poor waste management has deeply affected the river, the mangroves, and the health of families, and through hands-on work with children, young people, and their families. 

The project focuses on reducing the waste that ends up in the river by combining environmental education, community composting, recycling, and river clean-up
actions, transforming organic waste into compost.

The waste will in turn be used to create and sustain a community garden that helps recover green spaces and strengthen local food production while children learn by doing, share what they learn at home, and grow as active leaders alongside their families who are equally involved in building solutions together.

The coastal community of Río Salado faces a serious crisis due to poor waste management, with more than 38% of trash ending up in the river, affecting the community's mangroves, health, and biodiversity. 

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Financed Projects 2024

Owanga Solar battery
Owanga Solar

Project Category: Clean Energy

Sub-category: Tech and Innovation

DRC, Africa

Owanga is a company focused on providing affordable and accessible energy solutions in Congo. We rent out portable battery packs to users for $2 a day, and we also sell them for $250. Our service is designed to meet the energy needs of individuals and businesses in areas with limited access to reliable electricity.

With the support of a grant, we developed a new stackable battery solution, improving upon our previous
product. This innovation allows for more efficient use of space, making the battery packs easier to transport and
store. Our goal is to continue expanding our reach and improve the lives of our customers by providing them with a
reliable and sustainable energy source.

Our team chose to take on this project because of the significant electricity challenges that impacts daily life of individuals and businesses in Congo.
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SDI technology
BlueCrops

Project Category: Sustainable Agriculture

Sub-Category: Technology and Innovation

Colombia, Latin America

This project aims to develop an integrated agricultural technology system to improve crop productivity and sustainability for small-scale flower growers. The initiative focuses on three core components:

Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) Prototype: A low-cost system using buried perforated pipes to deliver water directly to plant roots, reducing water waste compared to traditional irrigation methods.

Modular Greenhouse Design: A scalable and adaptable structure optimized for flower cultivation, featuring climate control mechanisms to maintain ideal growing conditions.

Smart Sensor Network: An Arduino-based prototype to monitor critical variables like soil moisture, temperature, and relative humidity, enabling farmers to make data-driven decisions and optimize resource use.

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Financed Projects 2022

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Green The Lake Youth Climate project

Project Category: Nature-Based Solution

Ghana, Africa

Youth Climate Projects, Natural and human activities in fringe towns around Lake Bosomtwe are impacting the lake negatively. Thus the need to increase the buffer around the lake. In Pipie one of the fringe towns of the Lake the Youth is

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Sustainable Fish Farming

Project Category: Sustainable Agriculture

Zimbabwe, Africa

Zimbabwe Youth For Impaired Persons Trust is to train a group of Youths With disabilities (YWDs) to farm fish in a sustainable and comfortable way. The project will train 15 YWDs on fish farming knowledge and management. With reference to a baseline survey done by ZYIPT, YWDs in Arda Transau have been excluded

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Concerned Generation Network
Briquette Production and Enterprising

Project Category: Clean Energy

Sierra Leone, Africa

A Youth Climate Projects, this Project provides an alternative solution to continue cooking fuel through the Promotion of cooking fuel through briquette enterprising. We make our briquette through Organic waste such as municipal waste, charcoal dust, sawdust,

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Tanganyika Coastal's Community Resilience

Project Category: Oceans

DRC, Africa

Since 2002 until now, the Lake Tanganyika is recording it's longest and ever recorded water rise since 1889.
Resulting to water advance on the lake's shores since 2002, the 2021 rapid rise was the most disastrous hazard which destroyed up to 10,000 basic infrastructures on the lake's shores in all coastal cities in Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and letting thousands people homeless.

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Save Bugoma Forest Protest

Project Category: Nature-based Solutions

Uganda, Africa

Mobilizing, organizing and engaging one thousand (1000 ) young girls and women to meaningfully participate in the Save Bugoma Forest Campaign 2020 to restore 6,000 hectares of forest cover conversion into sugarcane plantations, a fact that once allowed will render Bugoma forest approach a tipping point of ecological collapse.

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Think Lead and Change
Green School Farming Project

Project Category: Sustainable Agriculture

Bangladesh, Asia

The initiative would focus on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in agriculture in order to provide nutrition for community youth while also rehabilitating nature and the climate. The project would take a multilevel approach, , incorporating seven core elements: sustainable agriculture, biodiversity protection, NbS agriculture capacity development,

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School Solar Power

Project Category: Clean Energy

Vanuatu, Oceania

The name of the school, that I was kindly requesting for funding for clean energy is my old schools where I start my primary level of education known as Ian Livo Primary school, located in the western part of Vanuatu, in the island of Santo far in the western side of Santo.

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Youth Climate Camp
Youth Climate Camp

Project Category: Capacity Building

Bangladesh, Asia

The risk of the climate change is emerging and it's just increase day by day. In the meantime the climate literacy within the youth people is very less and same time different misconception is about climate change is develop.

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Hero of Light

Project Category: Clean Energy

Philippines, Asia

The Philippines is compromises with approximately 7,640 Islands .In which the country is prone to disaster because it is line to Ring of Fire. When the disaster whip to the island, the light -material houses immediately destroyed and the status of the individual household are back to zero.

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Sowing Climate Hope
Sowing Climate Hope

Project Category: Sustainable Agriculture

Mexico, South America

The project "Siembra Esperanza Climática" will create a climate brigade in Mexico City, specifically in the Popotla neighborhood (if after that brigade, we still have funds, we will establish the second brigade in the Doctores neighborhood).

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Graywater Reuse Irrigation

Project Category: Clean Energy & Sustainable Agriculture

Peru, South America

The project currently has a communal orchard in the form of terraces with triple impact, 4 steps of 20 square meters of cultivation. With the allocated budget, a homemade gray water reuse system will be placed in the community garden area.

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HyperFarm
HyperFarm

Project Category: Sustainable Agriculture

USA, North America

We're working to bring a hydroponic farm system to a food insecure neighborhood that's sustainable ( uses 99% less water), it allows us to grow 365 days a year and it will allow us to increase our capacity to serve more families/ individuals who live in food insecure neighborhoods.

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