The Young SDG Innovators Programme is an opportunity for participating companies of the UN Global Compact to identify young talent within their organizations to collaborate and accelerate business innovation towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

In a relief distribution event of Bandhu Foundation, Atia Nur Chowdhury, Director of Bandhu Foundation and her colleagues came across a 21 year old girl and after they listened to her horrifying experiences with menstruation, the idea of Project Konna came into light.

Veterinarian Dr Salma Sultana was honoured with the 2020 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application from World Food Prize Foundation (WFPF). The ceremony was held virtually on October 13, 2020.

A group of students of DPS STS School Dhaka wanted to contribute to the society by helping the underprivileged and the neglected communities of Bangladesh. With a simple goal of easing people’s lives in mind, student-led NGO, DAWN was born.

Feminists Across Generations is a coalition of organisations, including Kotha, Naripokkho, SheDecides Bangladesh, Right Here Right Now - Youth SRHR, Bonhishikha, and Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust - BLAST, working closely against gender-based violence. Additionally, Oroddho Foundation and Swayong also played a major role in building a network of feminists that came together for an intergenerational fight against the growing incidents of rape, sexual harassment and violence against women. They came together to express their solidarity to the victims yesterday at the gathering, ‘Rage against Rape’ in front of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. “While planning the movement, we knew it had to be broad enough to end violence in all forms,” said Umama Zillur, founder, Kotha, and one of the key organisers.

Commemorating International Day of the Girl Child with Star Youth, The Daily Star arranged a webinar titled, “Ensuring an equal world for the girl child.” The webinar was broadcast live from The Daily Star’s Facebook page, earlier today.

YouthMappers is a network of universities which provides students with the opportunity to learn mapping skills, develop leadership experiences and create new geospatial data for development projects in places that are vulnerable to natural and social disasters.

Oroddho Health is a youth-based peer support platform, founded by Awsaf Karim in 2019. It works to raise awareness regarding mental health issues, and is dedicated towards providing free counselling services through its Facebook page and group.

InclusionX is a social organisation that intends to support people with mental and physical disabilities.

To this day, mental health remains one of the most neglected subjects in developing countries like Bangladesh. Despite the sheer number of people living with traumatic experiences and mental health issues,

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Gates Cambridge Scholarship Program 2021 in University of Cambridge

Nandita Suraksha started their journey in April 2019 as a non-profit voluntary organisation, with an aim to support underprivileged women and children across the country.

Starting out as a small online business run by a young mother, Lina’s Thousand Things turned into a successful clothing brand in the country in the span of just a few years.

International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) is a contest for high school students across the world. The questions are based on algebra, pre-calculus, projective and complex geometry, functional equations, combinatorics, and number theory.

Yasmin Miss was my elementary school teacher, and she was like a second mother to me.

Some teachers inspire us for the rest of our lives. Ruchi ma’am, my English teacher from Grade X, was one such teacher to me. She graduated from University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Youth Policy Forum (YPF) is a platform that creates constructive policy discourse between young students, professionals, and nation-builders.

The green start-up Cassetex from Bangladesh won the first prize in the seventh edition of ClimateLaunchpad 2020, a global green business ideas competition which awards the world’s most innovative climate entrepreneurs. Bangladeshi social enterprise Gen Lab introduced ClimateLaunchpad in Bangladesh for the first time this year and after a three months long selection process, the best three teams were selected for the global stage. World Champion Cassetex from Bangladesh, received 10000 Euro in cash award and one-year long incubation support from Climate-KIC, EIT.

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