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2025 Awards List
Below is the list of GoMakeADifference's 2025 winners
Over $40,000 is being awarded to 23 teams of UWC students who have been successful in this year’s GoMakeADifference applications. Around 100 applications were submitted this year, offering innovative ideas from students across the UWC network as to how they hope to make a difference.
The quality of applications was very high, with so many well thought through plans, which clearly laid out the project concept, proposed timescales and budgets. So many plans outlined how, if students were successful, people would benefit from the projects.
Thank you to everyone who applied.
| Project Title | Project Leader(s) | College(s) | Project Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Title: Kuokoa Watoto | Project Leader(s): Ali Bitek Yuggu | College: UWC East Africa | Project Location: Kiryandogo District, Bweyale | Description: The project fights drug use among youths and teaching entrepreneurship skills to eradicate poverty Town/region Project takes place. |
| Project Title: Forum for an Inclusive Future | Project Leader(s): Jose Lucie Delinois | College: UWC Red Cross Nordic | Project Location: Haiti | Description: Forum to draft and submit a law proposal requiring a 30% youth representation in public offices. |
| Project Title: Decarbonizing Energy Systems in Local Schools in Tanzania | Project Leader(s): Blessing Masanga | College: UWC South East Asia | Project Location: Mbeya, Tanzania | Description: This project aims at enabling schools to embrace clean and affordable energy consumption practices. |
| Project Title: Learn with Changnoy | Project Leader(s): Souphonesili KHAMMANY & Phimmachanh SENEKHAM | College: UWC Mahindra College / UWC Robert Bosch College | Project Location: PUNE, Laos | Description: Learn with Changnoy empowers Laotian youth through free soft skills workshops in rural areas. |
| Project Title: Makoni Scholars Outreach | Project Leader(s): Tawanda Chimbuya | College: UWC Atlantic | Project Location: Makoni, Zimbabwe | Description: A project to host workshops on scholarships opportunities in high schools in Makoni district. |
| Project Title: Tonacalli - Un Nuevo Amanecer | Project Leader(s): Alejandra Montero Constantino & Gabriela Sarahí Martínez Rodríguez | College: UWC in Mostar | Project Location: Mexico City | Description: An initiative designed to assist survivors of domestic violence in their re-integration into society. |
| Project Title: Nourish & Flourish | Project Leader(s): Jiayi Huang | College: UWC Thailand | Project Location: Phuket, Thailand | Description: Empowering Phuket communities with garden kits and workshops to combat malnutrition. |
| Project Title: Breaking Assumptions Built On Outliers | Project Leader(s): Marika Pescosolido | College: UWC Robert Bosch College | Project Location: Rome, Italy | Description: Shooting a movie-documentary encouraging Italy’s recognition of Islamophobia as a Penal Code crime. |
| Project Title: Make Cents, Make Sense | Project Leader(s): Leontina Trajkoska | College: UWC Costa Rica | Project Location: Costa Rica / North Macedonia | Description: Financial Literacy and Employability Workshops for SOS Children’s Villages. Empowering SOS village care leavers with financial/employability coaching for brighter futures. |
| Project Title: InnovateIDP by Edupower Youth Foundation | Project Leader(s): Kuir Makuol Akech Kuir | College: Pearson College UWC | Project Location: Juba, South Sudan | Description: Empowering displaced youth with entrepreneurial skills for self-reliance and community development. |
| Project Title: UWC STEM for Peace | Project Leader(s): Mohamed Muaz Bashir Omer & Karen Tao | College: UWC Changshu China | Project Location: El Maadi, Egypt | Description: Building a sustainable STEM program for refugee students in Egypt. |
| Project Title: Phoenix Forests - Bhutan's Forests Revival | Project Leader(s): Eden Lucky Tshomo & Sangay Yeshi | College: UWC Maastricht / Pearson College UWC | Project Location: Thimphu, Bhutan | Description: A youth-led initiative to restore fire-damaged forests in Bhutan. |
| Project Title: Join Our Path | Project Leader(s): Josias | College: UWC Robert Bosch College | Project Location: Petion-Ville, Haïti | Description: Empowering 50 young people through hands-on electronics per year fostering skills for opportunities. |
| Project Title: KIJANI ASILI | Project Leader(s): Martina Abiya | College: Pearson College UWC | Project Location: Kenya | Description: To provide a way for students to tackle climate change through sustainable practices that are cheap. |
| Project Title: Roshani Ki Udaan | Project Leader(s): Chand Shaikh | College: UWC Mahindra College | Project Location: Mumbai, India | Description: Safety and sanitation through hygiene workshops, mobile toilets and streetlights in Mumbai. |
| Project Title: Breeze of act to rise our smiles | Project Leader(s): Ayham Khlief & Anas AbuAmar | College: UWC Dilijan / UWC-USA | Project Location: Bethlehem, Palestine | Description: Our summer camp offers support through education, therapy, and creativity. |
| Project Title: Cultivate and Care | Project Leader(s): Gwetu Thembelihle | College: Waterford Kamhlaba UWC | Project Location: Rusape, Zimbabwe | Description: Establishing a garden and chicken rearing scheme to eradicate hunger and empower disabled children. |
| Project Title: Red Alert: Educate, Empower, End Poverty | Project Leader(s): Chimwemwe Kaonga | College: UWC Atlantic | Project Location: KASAMA District, Zambia | Description: This project is dedicated to helping girls from rural areas fight period poverty: reusable sanitary. |
| Project Title: Drona | Project Leader(s): Vikram Goel | College: UWC South East Asia | Project Location: Singapore | Description: Building and deploying autonomous solar-powered drones for real-time PFAS detection and treatment. |
| Project Title: Pop-up ABA Skillboxes: Share-Learn-Inspire-Share | Project Leader(s): Alex Kanderka, Mandy Jin & Zara Purić | College: Li Po Chun UWC | Project Location: Prešov, Slovakia | Description: Introducing ABA-based skillboxes and training to improve special education for children with autism. |
| Project Title: Tunashinda njaa | Project Leader(s): Brenda Ochieng & GIRANEZA Francoise | College: Li Po Chun UWC | Project Location: Migori, Kenya | Description: Our project aims to bridge the gap of food insecurity by introducing women in Kenya to aquaponics. |
| Project Title: Building a Sustainable Camp | Project Leader(s): Zachariah Thon Mam Deng & Majuch Manyang Nyandiar | College: UWC East Africa / UWC Dilijan | Project Location: Adjumani, Uganda | Description: This project aims to fight malnutrition and reduce the level of food insecurity in the Alere camp. |
| Project Title: Scam Awareness for Tuk-tuk Drivers | Project Leader(s): Syed Khalid Mahmood | College: UWC Mahindra College | Project Location: Hyderabad, India | Description: Educating Hyderabad's vulnerable tuk-tuk drivers on identifying and avoiding prevailing online scams. |
Testimonials
The GoMakeADifference Kenya 2003 project has a profound and lasting impact on all three of use, which is reflect through our work a decade on.
— The GoMakeADifference AIDS Awareness Project 2003