Deadline: 18th March 2024 | Identifying, connecting and supporting Asia’s leading young changemakers & social entrepreneurs who are pioneering tangible solutions to systematically address education inequality. Inviting applications from changemakers with a diverse range of bottom-up approaches to tackling education inequality from across South and South-East Asia
More individuals than ever before in human history have access to education, yet the educational gap between the privileged and disadvantaged is wide. Factors such as birthplace, wealth, ethnicity or gender determine access to education, and achievement. This programme aims to amplify initiatives across Asia that promote equal opportunities for self-development through education, with a particular focus on disadvantaged children, with the following principles in mind.
At the heart of ChangemakerXchange is a vibrant close-knit community of over 1000 changemakers from 130 countries working on a vast range of issues, as well as hundreds of civil society organisations, community leaders, partners and fellow support networks for social innovation.
Support
Participants receive customised, needs-based support to build their capacity via an online capacity building programme, which consists of simple but dynamic virtual formats led by experts and leaders with lived experience.
In-Person Summit
An immersive 5-day, in-person summit awaits all participants from 12th to 16th of August 2024. Held in a breathtaking nature-based location, this unique gathering is designed to forge deep connections, foster wellbeing, and sow the seeds for meaningful collaboration.
They are looking for young changemakers with a diverse range of bottom up approaches to tackling education inequality. You must come from or currently living / having impact in a country in South Asia (which includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and/or South-East Asia (which includes Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Brunei, Malaysia, East Timor, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore). The programme has a particular focus on (but not limited to) individuals and projects from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
Welcoming applications from changemakers from a variety of backgrounds working to address the education inequality, including social entrepreneurs and innovators, social change agents and activists, and civil society leaders. The intention is to recruit a diverse variety of changemakers because the education crisis requires an intersectional and coordinated approach between numerous stakeholders that are both tackling the root causes, and those who are responding to immediate pressing issues that result from these, which affect society in a variety of negative ways.
Find out more and apply at the official link below:
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Apply before 18th March, 2024