Global Changemakers

Hello I'm Gayane a Global Changemaker from Armenia. I'm a social activist. I have my own designed project "THE ACTION CLUB" which is made to provide opportunities for young people though serving disadvantages , to increase their participation in community life , to increase their confidence . All of these aims are directed towards the empowerment of apathetic youth.

Francis Anyaegbu is a young visionary leader with extensive experience in creating; facilitating and managing youth led projects especially on Youth Leadership and Life skills, Entrepreneurship, Environmental and Sustainable life style issues. He has been privileged to have represented Nigeria actively in over 10 international meetings on four continents as well as a previous role of Senate Chief Whip with the Nigerian National children Parliament, Abuja. He is the Executive Director of a youth led organization, Youth In Transit Organization and also seats on the board of some youth organization and projects within and outside Nigeria. He is a core volunteer campaigner for Action Aid International -ACTIVISTA Youth project in Nigeria focused on creating awareness on extreme poverty and hunger. He was until recently a consultant to the British Council Nigeria on the Debate to Action Programme, a joint development project between the British Council and the World Bank Institute. Francis is one of the Youth Master Trainers on Climate change trained in Sub Saharan Africa and Western Europe by the World Bank Institute Youth and Climate Change Practice Team and also involved as an International Climate Champion on the British Council’s Climate Generation Project. With an academic background in Environmental Biology, and couple of professional certification in development and youth work, Francis is a development trainer with vast facilitation competencies. He has been privileged to work with various policy makers, non-profits organizations and other relevant stakeholders on developmental issues in Nigeria. He has also been a core planning team member/facilitator of various international youth events and has also been interviewed and profiled on major print and broadcast media in Nigeria and beyond. Francis has been nominated for various Youth Awards; he made the coveted shortlist for the Youth Advocacy Category at The Future Nigeria 2007 Awards. He participated in a British Council sponsored Youth Exchange programme "Belongings" in August 2007 in London, UK and was selected as one of the 101 Young African Leaders at the African Business Forum in Ghana. Francis also attended the Global Engagement Summit 2008 at the Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA in April 2008 as one of twelve international youth leaders selected from around the world and was also invited as a Dialogue session speaker by UN HABITAT to attend the World Urban Youth Forum IV in Nanjing, China in November, 2008. In March 2009, Francis also completed a certification training programme on Conflict resolution and Peace building through the use of sports by the Generations For peace Projects in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. More recently, as an active member of the British Council Global Changemakers Network, he participated actively in the African Youth Forum in June 2009 at Cape Town South Africa. He also attended the African Regional Youth Community Building Workshop in Zimbabwe in March 2010, with the key components including delivery of trainings through interactive exercises, energizers, games, role play, and break-out sessions amongst others. He was also a delegate and Skills boot camp facilitator at the 1st World Youth Meeting on Sustainable future in Bari Italy in January 2010 and also attended the 2010 Global Youth Summit in London as a Peer Facilitator. He also attended the International Youth Forum on Climate Finance in Shanghai China in September 2010 with thirty four other youth experts from around the world under the invitation of the Chinese Government and the Cultural and Education Section, British Embassy China. More so, he was also involved in a group that produced a Policy Document on the meaningful participation of Young people in International decision making at the London Youth Policy Symposium in May, 2011. Building on this and many other successes, Francis was part of the young parliamentarians who participated at the historic 4th Commonwealth Youth Parliament held at the House of Lords Chamber, UK Houses of Parliament in September, 2011. He was also recently selected as a CYP delegate to the 8th Commonwealth Youth Forum as part of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth, Australia. Francis was a nominee for the Best Use of Advocacy (Entrepreneurship) at the Future Awards 2011 and a winner of the 2009 Annual Nigerian Youth Leadership Awards by Leap Africa, International Youth Foundation and Nokia.

I'm Valdrin Maliqi , I'm 19 years old. I'm from Prishtina , capital city of the newborn country Kosovo . I attend the Electrotechnik College "Don Bosko" , I'm an environment activist and my mission is to inform and educate the young society of our country about the environment protection , environment problems , wildlife preservation and the global impact of our actions .