The brand new Youth Meeting Influence Program will present scholarships to 10 younger leaders from Africa who will obtain particular person mentoring, seed-funding and assist to implement initiatives of their native communities that advance sustainable growth.
“Regardless of its rising youth inhabitants, African college students stay underrepresented in international greater schooling. By supporting packages like this on the highschool and faculty degree we hope to and enhance consciousness and supply well timed scholarships,” William Gertz, AIFS Chairman and Cyril Taylor Charitable Basis trustee informed The PIE Information.
The chosen students, aged between 18 and 32, may also take part within the 2025 AFS Youth Meeting – devoted to tackling humanitarian crises, strengthening international meals programs and uniting for local weather motion.
“The world wants extra lively international residents, individuals who contribute to a extra simply, equitable, peaceable and sustainable world.
“Scholarship packages like this one which assist younger leaders and lecturers around the globe assist create extra lively international residents,” president and CEO of AFS Intercultural Applications, Daniel Obst informed The PIE.
Regardless of its rising youth inhabitants, African college students stay underrepresented in international greater schooling
William Gertz, Cyril Taylor Charitable Basis
The Influence scholarships purpose to succeed in younger folks with management expertise, faculty or group involvement and an curiosity in international affairs and sustainable growth, with purposes opening later this yr in collaboration with AFS nationwide workplaces in Africa.
The brand new program is funded by the Cyril Taylor Charitable Basis, which can be supporting the enlargement of AFS’s Impact+ within the Classroom Program, offering an extra 300 trainer scholarships throughout the globe.
This digital initiative equips high-school lecturers with instruments to have interaction college students in international citizenship, serving to them “to advance the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Objectives not solely int he classroom, but additionally in the neighborhood,” mentioned Obst.
This system has already reached 1,000 lecturers from over 500 faculties in 65 nations, who’ve gained the AFS International Competence Certificates.
“Amongst these individuals, we’ve had lecturers from 30 African nations, most notably Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon and others,” an AFS spokesperson informed The PIE.
The scholarships can be found to lecturers around the globe to study key ideas and ideas of worldwide citizenship schooling, together with the UN SDGs, and find out how to foster it with their college students.
Essentially the most excellent community-based social impression initiatives designed by college students in taking part lecturers’ lecture rooms will obtain Sir Cyril Taylor Younger Leaders Awards.
