Case Studies

GoMakeADifference... some inspiring stories

At GoMakeADifference, we are often overwhelmed to hear how previous projects have made a difference to communities around the world. Below is a sample of detailed case studies to inspire you to making a difference and living the UWC mission.

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Case Studies

Niger Youth Empowerment Project (YEP)

Niger Youth Empowerment Project (YEP)

Working closely with young people covering leadership, entrepreneurship, mental health, and humanitarian...

Togo Micro-Farming Project

Togo Micro-Farming Project

Giving farmers tools for their farming needs.

Plastic Free Phuket

Plastic Free Phuket

Recycle rubbish collected off the beach into 9 different recyclable categories. These are then sent to...

Project Imagine: A Quest For Happiness

Project Imagine: A Quest For Happiness

Connecting with youth individuals to educate, take part in book reading groups, and learn about personal...

WETLAND

WETLAND

The wetland consists of a basin that must have a depth of 80 cm 1m by 2m wide and covered length,...

A Drop For Growth

A Drop For Growth

Installing drip irrigation systems into two farms in rural Maharashtra, in a region called Palghar. The...

Youth Haitian Empowerment Exchange Program

Youth Haitian Empowerment Exchange Program

Youth Haitian Empowerment Exchange Program has been held under the campus of Saint Louis High School...

Living the Sustainable Life!

Living the Sustainable Life!

Living the Sustainable Life! was developed in the cities of Apurímac, Cusco, Huánuco and Lima in the s...

Live It, Learn It

Live It, Learn It

Live it Learn it — otherwise known as L&L — is a science club for primary school students. We are ded...

The JOY Foundation

The JOY Foundation

The JOY Foundation Summer Program ran for two weeks from August 9th to August 20th. It took place online...

Hydro-Pure

Hydro-Pure

HydroPure has not only been a project name with the idea of representing the general aim of aiding to...

Jipende (Self-Love)

Jipende (Self-Love)

  A conference to create awareness on mental health, sex-education and consent. Delivered by:  Kamene M...

Greenlijan

Greenlijan

Environmental education for 105 students from the local schools of Dilijan Delivered by:  Mikayel K...

Project Krishna

Project Krishna

To provide clean water to a rehabilitated village of tribal communities in India  Delivered by: Apoorba ...

Dosage of Hope

Dosage of Hope

Yunlan Li and Seraj Aldin Abo from Atlantic College set up a project to provide education to high school...

Decolonizing education system in YDC in Lithuania

Decolonizing education system in YDC in Lithuania

Ieva Mackute from UWC USA delivered this workshop based project to help change the perspective on education...

The future of Eswatini youth - Umliba

The future of Eswatini youth - Umliba

Temazulu Zulu & Bongiswa Dlamini from UWC USA set up a project team 'Umliba' to provide resources...

Bairo Pite Clinic

Bairo Pite Clinic

Anya worked at the Bairo Pite Clinic in Dili, Timor-Leste during  her gap year in 2016. She was responsible ...

Better Education Place for the Forgotten Himalayan Children

Better Education Place for the Forgotten Himalayan Children

Karam Gurung set out to reconstruct the main academic building of the Shree Mangyal Dvip Boarding (SMD)...

Cambodia Summer Project

Cambodia Summer Project

In Mie Chei, the largest rubbish tip in Phnom Penh, hundreds of children scavenge for food and other...

Creating a Sustainable Naija

Creating a Sustainable Naija

This project by Melie Ekunno from UWC Adriatic aimed to introduce the practice of recycling to N...

FAM (Fight Against Malaria)

FAM (Fight Against Malaria)

FAM - Fight Against Malaria – was a project for making and distributing packages of medicine, containing n...

A Voice for the Voiceless

A Voice for the Voiceless

Blessing Chirimbani worked with her family to refurbish St Joseph's Home for Boys in Zimbabwe. In doing...

Freetown Cheshire Home Project

Freetown Cheshire Home Project

Bassie Bondeva Turay, Haja Isatu Bah, Modupe Taylor Pearce and Maria Teresa Julianell worked together...

Fighting Infant Mortality in Burkina Faso

Fighting Infant Mortality in Burkina Faso

Olivia Tienin ran a program in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to help 70 mothers keep their children safe,...

Give Back Strength

Give Back Strength

This project by Hadjaratou Gado ALzouma from UWC Mostar and Abdoul Nasser Bounia Yahya from UWC USA w...

Hearts Over Labels

Hearts Over Labels

For Oshin Bista’s GoMakeADifference project, she spent time at a public school in Kathmandu teaching c...

Improving Yam Production in Nigeria

Improving Yam Production in Nigeria

Improving Yam Production in Nigeria was a GoMakeADifference project carried out by Chizitera Beverly...

Kenyan Youth for Peace

Kenyan Youth for Peace

Following the post-election violence in 2007, the project, a conference designed for the youth to ...

Liter of Light

Liter of Light

Caifang Du and her team set out to build street lights in a village where they are badly needed. This...

Local Issues Forum

Local Issues Forum

Noor Bib, Mehrun Nisa and Anila Bano worked together to establish the Local Issues Forum (LIS) and the...

Lus-ycling: Teaching Children in Zambia About The Environment

Lus-ycling: Teaching Children in Zambia About The Environment

Kirsty Hawk and Sofia Corti delivered a program in Lusaka, Zambia to educate students and teachers about...

Macedonia Networking 101

Macedonia Networking 101

Case Study: Networking 101 – International Youth Networking Academy Ana Arsovka, Isidora Cvetkovska a...

Peruvian Children and Teenagers Have Something to Say

Peruvian Children and Teenagers Have Something to Say

Junior Alexis Sanchez Prado ran workshops for young people in four cities across Peru, educating children...

A Second Chance

A Second Chance

South Camp Correctional Centre houses female juvenile inmates in Kingston, Jamaica. The project was run...

Project Co-operation in the Middle East

Project Co-operation in the Middle East

Organised by Elishera Rubin, Project Co-operation was a camp held in Israel that brought together young...

Save Village Teens Tororo

Save Village Teens Tororo

Jackline Abbo from UWC Atlantic College developed a project to fight teenage pregnancies, marriages, a...

Supporting Orphans of Ebola in Makeni City, Sierra Leone

Supporting Orphans of Ebola in Makeni City, Sierra Leone

GoMakeADifference volunteers worked in collaboration with the Women’s Forum for Human Rights and Democracy t...

Seed Project Campo Grande

Seed Project Campo Grande

Jay de Araujo, Iben Moller, Juliana Reolon Pereira, Fernanda Savaris and Rosalie Valentiny visited several...

Youth Rise

Youth Rise

Nomfanelo and Sifiso established the Youth Rise forum in which youths from across Swaziland shared...