Meet the 32 Unimaginable Younger Leaders from the Asia-Pacific

This yr, World Citizen is honouring 32 younger innovators and advocates working to deal with the problems perpetuating excessive poverty from throughout the Asia-Pacific area, serving to sort out the world’s greatest points together with local weather, gender fairness, and human rights, as a part of the World Citizen NOW: Melbourne Youth Leaders Award program. 

Roughly 4.3 billion folks talking 3,000 languages throughout 57 nations — 60% of the world’s inhabitants — name the Asia-Pacific dwelling. And younger folks within the area — 1.1 billion in truth — have lots to say about the best way our world is altering and the options wanted to get us again on observe. 

Local weather change is on the coronary heart of this area’s challenges, and younger individuals are the important thing to fixing them.

Centred on actively involving and uplifting younger innovators spanning the Asia-Pacific area, World Citizen NOW: Melbourne is bringing collectively world leaders, influencers, artists, advocates, journalists, coverage consultants, and over 300 distinctive younger leaders from Australia and the broader Asia-Pacific space. 

With an goal to sort out probably the most pressing world challenges, the two-day summit and youth occasion will happen from March 5–6 this yr in Melbourne

The 32 younger innovators will obtain complete coaching, peer assist, and networking alternatives, showcase their work in the course of the occasion, and apply for monetary grants to advance their progressive work targeted on addressing points associated to local weather change and ending excessive poverty.

Our crew has chosen 32 of the perfect and brightest younger changemakers from throughout the Asia-Pacific area; listed here are their tales: 

Meet the 2024 Youth Chief Award Winners:

Ahmad Nisar, 19, Afghanistan
Ahmad Nisar, a psychological well being advocate from Afghanistan and fellowship facilitator for Orygen World, based Changemaker, a grassroots youth-led organisation specializing in pushing the narrative round psychological well being. In the present day, his work focuses on serving to people develop interpersonal expertise whereas integrating psychological well being and well-being into on a regular basis life. Analysis, youth engagement, and his expertise as an writer have helped him proceed to advocate for psychological well being at main organisations, equivalent to Amnesty Worldwide and Challenges Canada/WEF. 

Alanna Jane Sethi, 20, Hong Kong
At simply 20 years outdated, Alanna Sethi is already making waves within the world world of psychological well being. Because the founding father of HOPE (Serving to Our Planet Earth), an authorized yoga teacher, and a scholar on the College of Toronto, Sethic’s psychological well being advocacy additionally extends to her function as head of wellness and human capital supervisor of Open Coronary heart by Come up Asia Ltd.

Influenced by conventional Chinese language drugs ideas, Sethi works with younger folks to develop and share accessible self-help instruments, present peer assist, and enhance present psychological well being companies and sources in her day-to-day life. Sethi’s work has been awarded by UWCSEA with the Alumni Values in Motion 2021 Award and by Liv Journal in 2022 and 2023 with the Ladies of Wellness: Changemakers Award and Youth Wellness Mentor of the Yr Award.  
As a psychological well being advocate devoted to creating a optimistic distinction within the lives of others, her work is a testomony to her dedication and dedication to creating a distinction.  

Alicia Tien, 24, Malaysia
As an entrepreneur and sustainable improvement advocate, Alicia Tien can be the CEO of Asia Discovery, an organisation driving the inexperienced transition to finish fossil fuels and pure useful resource reliance throughout Southeast Asia. 

Asia Discovery has right this moment efficiently led initiatives that embody guiding renewable vitality firms to enter the SEA market and co-organizing the ASEAN China India Sustainability Youth Management Summit, serving to to impression the lives of greater than 4,000 youth entrepreneurs throughout 12 nations. Tien has had the chance to take part in main start-up incubators and construct partnerships throughout China, Europe, and the ASEAN area. Tien holds an MBA from Tsinghua College, the place she based Tsinghua College’s China-ASEAN Affiliation, and right this moment continues her work empowering ladies by internet hosting occasions and contributing to podcasts that highlight feminine entrepreneurs in tech.

Ashleigh Streeter-Jones, 29, Australia
Described by Forbes Journal as a “youthful visionary,” Ashleigh Streeter-Jones has labored in youth advocacy and campaigns for over 10 years. Streeter-Jones is the founder and CEO of Elevate Our Voice Australia (ROVA), a social enterprise mobilising younger ladies and gender numerous folks by means of campaigns, group, and training to create equitable democracy. 

By way of her campaigns, politicians throughout the nation have learn speeches written by over 200 younger folks. She can be the Pacific Group Champion for the World Shapers Group.

Belle WX Lim, 27, Malaysia
Dr. Belle Lim is the Government Director and President of Future Forte inc, a not-for-profit organisation empowering feminine and gender-diverse worldwide college students in Australia, 2,500 of whom are World Residents. Lim at present works at MindTribes as a senior DEI supervisor, she was chosen as a “23 Fellow at Schmidt Futures” Worldwide Technique Discussion board, and she or he served because the Nationwide President ’20/21 of the Council of Worldwide College students Australia, which advocated for worldwide college students in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic by participating with policymakers.

Lim has a Ph.D. in most cancers genetics and is keen about selling optimistic adjustments in world well being and her analysis into breast most cancers prevention.

Bianca Manning, 29, Australia
Bianca Manning is a Gomeroi girl who at present leads the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander justice marketing campaign space at Widespread Grace and Aboriginal-led group improvement work in Logan with Aunty Jean Phillips in Queensland, Australia. By way of her work at Widespread Grace, Bianca has led campaigns on First Nations justice and local weather change. Over 100 scarves have been given to and worn by Australian ministers, revered leaders, and celebrities, supported by dozens of MP conferences in Canberra and electorates to lift local weather change consciousness as a part of the marketing campaign.

Brigitta Maria Andrea Gunawan, 19, Indonesia
As an ocean advocate, Brigitta Gunawan leads progressive environmental training initiatives to foster significant ocean safety throughout Indonesia and the area.
As a Nationwide Geographic Younger Explorer, winner of the Ocean Awards Younger Initiative by Blue Marine Basis and BOATInternational, and an EE 30 Beneath 30 by the North American Affiliation for Environmental Training in 2021, Gunawan launched 30×30 Indonesia, a marketing campaign geared toward driving group engagement to assist prioritise marine protected areas all through Indonesia and assist the worldwide objective of defending 30% of the ocean by 2030. In 2022, Gunawan launched the 30×30 Coral Backyard, with a deal with restoring native coral reefs in Bali.

Gunawan’s mission is to attach communities with the delicate fantastic thing about our ocean by means of science, training, and storytelling.

Chamathya Fernando, 29, Sri Lanka
Chamathya Fernando has been a Sri Lankan youth advocate and member of the Sri Lanka Lady Guides because the age of eight. At 19, she initiated the Cease the Violence marketing campaign in Sri Lanka, which right this moment has impacted greater than 10,000 youth within the decade since its inception. 

She at present serves on the WAGGGS World Board, the biggest voluntary motion for ladies and younger ladies around the globe, and has appeared as a member of the Era Equality Youth Activity Pressure and the Core Group, which acts because the decision-making physique of the Era Equality Boards convened by UN Ladies and the governments of France and Mexico.

Dave Rubite, 26, Australia
Dave Rubite is a sustainability methods and know-how guide, serving to organisations attain their net-zero targets. Past consulting, Rubite is a contract author and journalist devoted to creating social impression by means of storytelling and forex writing for the media firm Degree: Asian which amplifies the success tales of Asian-Australian leaders and artists. Rubite is thought for his unwavering dedication to inspiring change and making a brighter future, and he’s at present pursuing his Grasp of Setting.

Devni Wimalasena, 25, Sri Lanka 
As an award-winning content material creator, activist, author, and speaker, Devni Wimalasena has taken her activism world, lately collaborating with the community CNN to advertise anti-racism and lift over US $35,000 for Sri Lanka’s financial disaster by means of grassroots campaigning. She focuses on bridging societal divides, notably for marginalised ladies and youth, and is devoted to fostering world gender equality by means of inclusive workplaces. 
Wimalasena’s change-making has made a significant impression, from constructing a group of over 12,000 folks to conducting workshops with over 200 individuals in excessive faculties and universities about social justice points.

Because the 2023 winner of the Australian South Asian Centre Stellar Lady Award, Wimalasena has graduated from the College of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts in Worldwide Politics and Gender Research and a Juris Doctorate and is at present a regulation graduate at Johnson Winter Slattery, an Australian regulation agency.
Divyangana (Divya) Sharma, 24, Australia

As a registered nurse at Epworth Emergency Division, Divyangana Sharma was awarded the Victorian Worldwide Pupil of the Yr in 2022. Sharma promotes psychological well being inside South Asian communities on her podcast as a passionate psychological well being advocate. Sharma can be lively inside the worldwide scholar group, will be discovered at occasions supporting new worldwide college students, and is usually discovered sipping Australia’s finest espresso in one among many cafés all through town of Melbourne.

Gabrielle Cabodil, 26, Philippines
Gabrielle Cabodil is an intersectional youth activist from the Philippines. As world operations supervisor for the Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) Motion for 4 years, she carried out techniques to make sure world solidarity, activists’ wellbeing, and intersectional impression. 

She has been concerned with completely different actions over the previous eight years by means of communication and organisational improvement, together with catastrophe threat discount, reproductive well being for girls in city poor communities, and youngsters’s rights.

Lately, Cabodil was a co-committee head for Metro Manila Satisfaction (the duty pressure behind the LGBTQ+ Satisfaction March and Competition in Metro Manila), which she served on for 3 years. In the present day, she holds a level in organisational communication from De La Salle College of Manila and is pursuing a Grasp of Science diploma in social justice and group motion on the College of Edinburgh.

Hadiqa Bashir, 22, Pakistan
As a devoted Pakistani activist and founding father of Women United for Human Rights, Hadiqa Bashir stands on the forefront of advancing women’ rights and gender equality in her nation. With initiatives spanning early marriage, sexual well being, training, poverty alleviation, and local weather change, she demonstrates a deep dedication to sustainable improvement and champions the significance of gender equality in tribal Pakistani communities to stress training’s transformative energy.

As a younger chief for the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Targets and a World Fellow for gender equality, Bashir was elected a Ladies Ship Younger Chief and acquired a number of awards recognizing her dedication to gender equality, together with the Asian Women Ambassador Award, the Acumen Fellow Award, and the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award. 

Bashir continues to make vital contributions to social justice and sustainable improvement in Pakistan, embodying the spirit of optimistic change by means of management and advocacy. 

Hazirah Sufian, 27, Brunei
Hazirah Sufian, initially a geology graduate, discovered her calling in occasion administration pushed by her ardour for social justice and youth improvement. Her journey into this subject started with co-organizing the BIBD YES! 2020 youth empowerment summit in Darussalam, Brunei. Geared up with a Grasp’s in Administration, she joined Inexperienced Brunei — a youth-led platform to advertise environmental conservation — in 2021 as a Mission Improvement Assistant with a mission to advertise sustainability throughout the nation. Sufian has helped the organisation gather 181,467 kg of recyclables from recycling drives and 19,876 kg of waste from cleanup actions and has engaged over 26,000 youth by means of applications and actions.

Kha Le, 24, Vietnam
Kha (Khanh Ha) Le, born in Nha Trang and raised in Saigon, Vietnam, is the founding father of BAO, an organisation that advocates for gender range, fairness, and inclusivity (DEI) in Vietnam. As a non-binary transgender particular person, Le’s analysis and advocacy focus is gender DEI, particularly in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Along with human rights advocacy, gender fairness, range, and inclusion, Kha’s experience additionally contains sustainability, plastic circularity, and round economies.

Le can be a Younger Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Fellow and a scholar of the CIMB ASEAN full-ride Scholarship. They had been chosen as a Youth Chief of the US and Vietnam Management Cohort sponsored by the US Institute of Peace and Fulbright College Vietnam. They’re additionally poets who discover alienation, estrangement, and loss of their work.

Lester Dellosa, 27, Philippines
Lester Dellosa, a Bicol-born artist-designer and nationally acknowledged youth chief, makes use of vogue as a strong software for environmental training and local weather motion. By way of his advocacy, Dellosa weaves tales by means of fascinating designs, workshops, and immersive experiences, permitting audiences to interact with the setting on a deeper degree.

His ardour led him to determine CICCADA, a model that blossomed from advocacy right into a pressure for a vogue waste-free future. CICCADA champions sustainability by crafting beautiful wearable artwork items from recycled and upcycled supplies. By way of his artwork, workshops, and subject immersions,Dellosa empowers learners and audiences to expertise the setting not simply visually, but additionally technically and emotionally. He’s a real changemaker, utilizing his creativity to encourage collective motion in direction of a extra sustainable world.

Maggie Blanden, 24, Australia
Maggie Blanden is a proud Palawa girl from Lutruwita nation within the Australian state of Tasmania and the great-granddaughter of matriarch Aunty Ida West. She was acknowledged as a finalist for the Australian Human Rights Award for her vital contributions because the founding father of “Naarm Regulation College students on Voice,” an Indigenous-led, community-based, and culturally protected grassroots motion in regards to the 2023 Australian Voice Referendum.

Blanden is a dedicated advocate within the gender and decolonial house, as evidenced by her involvement with the World Institute for Ladies’s Management (GIWL) Youth Advisory Committee, and an advocate and vocalist for Indigenous self-determination, sovereignty, local weather justice, Indigenous land return, and cultural administration. Blanden passionately campaigns towards home, household, and sexual violence, in addition to the disproportionate illustration of Indigenous ladies and women within the Australian prison justice system. 

Minh Hoang, 23, Vietnam
Minh Hoang spearheads high-impact applications at Murdoch College (Australia) Launchpad, the place they leverage training, entrepreneurship, and innovation to coach the subsequent technology of purpose-driven startup founders. Combining co-creation and youth management, they empower these younger minds and amplify their voices by means of strategic media campaigns.

Hoang embodies the impression of those applications. Because the founding father of “Agora Insights,” they’ve constructed a social enterprise that harnesses the facility of a community-centric digital platform to make sure extra aligned and consultant decision-making and governance.

Monal Bhattarai, 22, Nepal
Monal Bhattarai wears two hats, each devoted to enhancing training in Nepal. As Managing Director at Cover Nepal, she champions interactive studying and accessibility, impacting over 12,000 college students throughout 200 faculties. Her ardour extends past borders as a founding member of Cover France, a non-profit elevating funds to amplify Cover Nepal’s impression.

By way of each organisations, Bhattarai prioritises women and gender minorities, making certain they full main and secondary training. In the end, she empowers them to realize monetary independence and turn into leaders of their communities.

Nathaniel Diong, 22, Australia
Nathaniel Dion is the founder and CEO of Future Minds Community, a social enterprise that empowers marginalised youth with the future-ready expertise to enter employment and even create their jobs. The community has helped college students launch 3D-printing companies, lead charities and the aged group, and uncover their dream careers in social change. 

Thus far, the “Future Minds” community has partnered with governments worldwide to ship over 30,000 hours of employment coaching and assist, serving to college students turn into extra assured and job-ready.

In 2023, Dion, as a part of the community, unveiled Gen Z Labs, a brand new strategic insights and consulting agency geared toward serving to establishments unlock the distinctive workforce expertise of Gen Z bridge intergenerational gaps, and adapt to the way forward for work. As of but, the initiative has offered invaluable assist to C-level executives, governments, and United Nations companies in Thailand, South Korea, India, China, and the United Arab Emirates.

Niyati Sharma, 23, India
Because the founding father of a youth-led non-profit organisation, Pratisandhi Basis, Niyati Sharma strives to get rid of disgrace and stigma surrounding sexual well being. By way of direct and oblique instructional interventions, the organisation has impacted over 60,000 lives and has been featured on Forbes India, Indian Specific, NDTV, and The Quint, amongst others. Earlier this yr, Niyati authored and printed “Beneath the Carpet: The Intercourse Ed Everybody Wants.”

Sharma can be an authorized sexuality educator, a Diana Award 2021 winner, and holds a double main in psychology and worldwide relations from the College of British Columbia, Vancouver. 

Noa Limpoco, 27, Philippines
A disabled and neurodivergent group organiser and activist, Noa “Peper” Limpoco is the founding father of the Neurodivergent Community, which relies within the Philippines. In the present day, the organisation works to highlight neurodivergent lived experiences and advocate for important lodging in society and workplaces. 

All through her profession in social impression, Limpoco has organised greater than 600 group occasions, formal applications, and impression campaigns throughout Asia, constructing a strong community of over 23,000 people with the mission of driving optimistic change. 

Limpoco can be a guide for the United Nations Improvement Programme (UNDP) specialising within the subject of youth and local weather motion; for the Asia Enterprise Philanthropy Community (AVPN), organising the Asia Gender Community of gender-focused philanthropists; for the Humane League (THL), lobbying for animal rights and welfare; and for L’Oreal Philippines, championing sustainable magnificence by means of the model Kiehl’s.

Noor Azizah, 28, Australia
A resilient Rohingya refugee, Noor Azizah has overcome adversity to turn into an advocate and educator. Her formative years was marked by homelessness and statelessness after escaping the Rohingya genocide at age 8, but right this moment Azizah is now the co-founder and director of the “Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Community,” a women-led, refugee-led, and Rohingya-led group addressing Rohingya human rights points.  

With a Bachelor’s in Training and a Grasp’s in Peace and Battle Research from the College of Sydney, Noor has earned recognition for her world impression. Awarded as one among YAIA’s Younger Ladies to Watch in Worldwide Affairs and winner of the 2023 Stellar South Asian Ladies Awards, she serves as an advocate on esteemed panels with figures like Cate Blanchett and Craig Foster. 

As a refugee delegate on the UN, Noor actively champions Rohingya ladies, contributing to world discussions on GBV, training, and statelessness. She has been appointed to Australia’s inaugural Refugee Advisory Panel. 

Phatsaline Vongsaly, 28, Laos
Phatsaline Vongsaly is a psychological well being advocate, lively volunteer within the World Shapers group underneath the World Financial Discussion board, and co-founder of Gamlangchai, a psychological well being initiative run by younger folks for younger folks in Laos.

By way of her involvement with the organisation, Vongsaly promotes psychological well being consciousness, builds the capability of the non-mental well being workforce, offers peer assist applications, and advocates for youth involvement in a scientific change for Laos’ psychological well being panorama.

Qiyun Woo, 27, Singapore
Qiyun Woo is an environmental communicator and the creator of The Bizarre and Wild, a visible medium that makes local weather science accessible by means of comics and visible parts. She makes use of comics, movies, and social media to make scientific ideas, insurance policies, and data accessible to a digital viewers.

The work of Woo has gained traction, and she or he has been featured in main information shops equivalent to Grazia, WWD, Vogue, and L’Officiel, in addition to native media shops equivalent to The Straits Instances and Channel Information Asia. She has additionally been named a Nationwide Geographic Younger Explorer by Nationwide Geographic.
As a Singaporean local weather activist who makes use of inventive storytelling with a ardour for making local weather science comprehensible, Woo is keen about science communication and loves telling tales about complicated points. 

Raeed Roshan Ali, 29, Fiji
Raeed Ali is a results-driven skilled with six years of expertise in grassroots, regional, and worldwide initiatives, specialising in marketing campaign administration, sustainable improvement, and local weather advocacy. Because the founding father of Valuable Plastic Fiji, Fiji’s first youth-led social enterprise tackling plastic air pollution, and co-founder of The Alliance for Future Generations, Fiji’s largest youth-led motion targeted on sustainable improvement, Ali has empowered younger folks to contribute to the Pacific local weather motion by means of instructional applications and hands-on expertise.

Raeed has engaged volunteers in clean-up campaigns, efficiently lobbied for a regulation banning single-use plastic in Fiji, and educated over 580 younger folks on points associated to local weather activism. The success of Ali’s initiatives has been attributed to his experience in program coordination, enterprise improvement, and undertaking administration, in addition to his dedication to fostering equitable and sustainable improvement within the Pacific, actively contributing to the expansion of the inexperienced and blue entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Rose Singh, 23, Nepal
Utilizing menstrual literacy and expertise improvement for post-conflict feminine victims, Rose Singh is pushed by her ardour for gender justice. Pursuing a double diploma in regulation in her dwelling nation of Nepal, Singh is a social-impact practitioner who has labored to facilitate interval fairness and transitional justice with regional and worldwide stakeholders throughout the nation.

Rose additionally has expertise as a journalist and has extensively researched the socio-legal intricacies current in Nepal, with a deal with fostering accountability throughout marginalised communities in Nepal. To attain her targets, Rose advocates for interval positivity by enhancing entry to menstruation pads in native faculties and prisons, forming grassroots advocacy organisations, and destigmatizing the taboos surrounding menstruation throughout society. 

Singh works to empower post-conflict ladies victims to take up decision-making roles by equipping them with journalistic expertise and fostering their company by means of non-extractive story-telling mechanisms, representing Nepal at FORA’s World Summit on Gender Equality and holding areas on the UN Ladies Asia Pacific occasion as a speaker.

Shah Rafayat Chowdhury, 28, Bangladesh
Shah Rafayat Chowdhury is an award-winning environmentalist and social entrepreneur from Bangladesh and co-founder and president of Footsteps, an organisation at present empowering greater than 500,000 folks throughout Bangladesh with protected water and sanitation entry, catastrophe resilience, improved public well being companies, and livelihood enhancement applications, particularly for the marginalised communities. Pushed by holistic and community-driven options, “Footsteps” is empowering greater than 591,565 folks in 37 districts throughout Bangladesh.

Hjh Siti Norfarwizah, 27, Brunei 
Because the founder and CEO of Kilang ReRoot (KRR), Siti Ja’afar has a ardour for literature, undertaking administration, and entrepreneurship. Since 2020, she has advocated lowering meals waste and selling environmental sustainability for meals restoration in Brunei to remodel the nation’s meals techniques by means of nature-based local weather motion options. At the moment, she is specializing in meals sustainability, biodiversity conservation, and social entrepreneurship.

A recipient of quite a few entrepreneurship awards and funding competitions, Ja’afar hopes to construct a rising group of environmental heroes and changemakers empowering inexperienced careers by means of her community-based initiatives selling meals safety and meals techniques investments.

Tamara Dewi Gondo, 25, Indonesia
Tamara Dewi Gondo is the CEO of Liberty Society, a social enterprise that manufactures and sells eco-friendly business-to-business merchandise to fund the upskilling of marginalised ladies in Indonesia. 

With its tailoring and entrepreneurship coaching, the organisation has empowered 200 refugee ladies dwelling in Indonesia by creating their expertise and their vogue training.
Liberty Society has additionally labored with greater than 100 firms, together with world manufacturers Samsung, Ikea, and H&M, as a part of the organisation. In 2021, Liberty Society acquired the United Nations Ladies Indonesia’s Ladies Empowerment Rules Award and was within the high 4 within the World’s Youth Ecopreneur Award. 

Apart from her work with the organisation, Gondo mentors varied non-governmental organisations in Southeast Asia, specializing in group improvement and social entrepreneurship.

Tylah Farani-Watene, 26, New Zealand
Tylah Farani-Watene is a proud descendent of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa in New Zealand, with ancestral ties to Taputimu, Nofoali’i, Ngāti Maru ki Hauraki, and Fiji. 
Based mostly in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Farani-Watene is keen about youth advocacy, sustainable improvement, racial justice, and civic training. In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Farani-Watene had the extra problem of present process mind surgical procedure. In the course of the restoration, she found her calling for world change-making and social impression. Within the years since, she has devoted her time and vitality to empowering and creating alternatives for underrepresented communities, notably Māori and Pasifika youth, as she believes that the important thing to attaining a greater world lies in activating indigenous data.

Taking her ardour internationally, Farani-Watene is targeted on creating extra alternatives for Māori and Pasifika youth to contribute to the worldwide discourse on sustainable improvement, alongside being a task mannequin for her youthful sisters, Blayke and Ridley, serving to them turn into assured Pacific ladies as they navigate life.

Vishal Tolambia, 27, India 

Because the founding father of Humanity-Centred Designs, Vishal Tolambia is an award-winning multi-disciplinary designer and world vogue ambassador for moral and sustainable practices. 

Columbia is pushed by an unwavering dedication to reshaping the style trade by pioneering round recycling know-how and fostering optimistic vogue, which right this moment has empowered greater than 150 marginalised micro-enterprises (MSEs) in India to remodel textile waste and accountable supplies to create planet-positive vogue.
As a staunch advocate for acutely aware consumerism and moral vogue, Tolambia champions sustainable improvement by supporting communities by means of sustainable improvement practices. 

The celebrated cohort of World Citizen Youth Leaders Awards will journey to Melbourne in March from nations throughout the Asia Pacific area to interact in peer networking alongside enterprise, philanthropic and change-managing leaders from throughout the area.

The summit will conclude with World Citizen Nights, an intimate, dwell music occasion honouring the tales of younger trailblazers from throughout the Asia-Pacific area who’re profoundly impacting their native communities within the areas of local weather motion, gender fairness and extra. The occasion will happen on the Palais Theatre on St Kilda’s foreshore on 6 March, headlined by the enduring Crowded Home, with extra artists to be introduced. Begin taking motion now to earn your free tickets!

World Citizen acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin nation, the Conventional Homeowners of the unceded land on which World Citizen NOW: Melbourne and World Citizen Nights will probably be held, and pays respect to their Elders previous, current and rising.