Bridging the education gap is not enough. There is urgent need to quickly empower and activate youths as changemakers in our societies. I believe the fastest route to achieving @SDG2030 is by empowering, engaging & supporting youths in civic, business & public leadership early,
Young people have powerful voices and perspectives that must #BeSeenBeHeard in political decision-making.
I join @UNYouthEnvoy in calling for better youth representation: https://t.co/wzLpL4tG7r
It is an honour to be invited to speak at @impacttoolbox 's Youth in Development Boot Camp on Marketing Strategies for Social Ventures in 2022.
The importance of marketing strategies for social ventures, like other ventures, cannot be trivialized at any point in time.
When the missionaries came, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said
‘Let us pray!’ They taught us to close our eyes to pray, and when we opened them
again, we had the Bible and they had the land.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
We need to recognise that change occurs at the level of the local,
at the level of the struggle of representation, and that political and cultural change occurs first in the minds of those who imagine a different kind of world’ - Ashcroft
The impact story of John Oluwasegun Fatoye is a good showcase of the significance and dividend of our @sozonetworks and @impacttoolbox approach to youth engagement and empowerment.
Read John’s story through the link below and show him some love. #development
This is by far the harshest description of the SDGs that I have read -
‘‘fairy tales, dressed in the bureaucratese of intergovernmental narcissism, adorned with the robes of multilateral paralysis, and poisoned by the acid of nation-state failure’’ (Horton 2015)
This month, through the next nine months, he will be learning Project Management, Conflict Management, Group Facilitation, Advocacy, and Leadership.
The Open Minds - Young Voices Programme is an empowerment program to develop young, motivated,
Congratulations to our 2019 strategy boot camp alumni - Shamsudeen Abdulrazak Gidado, recently selected for the 2021 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Open Minds Young Voices Fellowship.
The right funding model for your organization
1. Get a Sense of Where You Are: Be realistic to know the precise needs of your organization at your level of growth and create clear milestones towards the future
Sozo networks is proud to be able to support @u_recycle.initiative for its 2021 Global Recycling Day Celebration. Through Impacttoolbox grant, U-recycle was able to educate over 174 people in 4 states about plastic pollution crisis and ways that plastic footprints can be cut down