Our wall of fame

Anthony Agee-kum

Edutainment Homework Canopy provides light and space that children require to do their homework and read their schoolbooks. With various activities available to generate enthusiasm for learning among the children, as well as community volunteer teachers who serve as role models, the homework canopy is an environment where learning is fun, and success is never far from reach.

Tsion Kiros

Current approaches of teaching Amharic focus on memorizing the shapes rather than the sounds of the alphabets. The project develops worksheets and teachers guide at each level and children are taught the sounds of new words. They are also developing mobile application that includes interactive features such as painting, tracing and games.

Petar Reić

Tools for children with communication difficulties

Gulmira Amatova

Zhas Kemenger Development Center is unique because children are not only learning Kazakh language there but they are taught in this language. Center is using unique individual methology created by its teachers.

Alassane Ngom

Alassane Ngom has created the Centre for Science and Technology to support the emergence of a scientific culture in Senegal, especially among children.

Samuel Gyabah

Samalex Solutions provides micro flush toilets to local schools and rural communities solving the problem of proper and hygienic waste disposal facilities in Ghana with a simple and affordable solution.

Elizabeth Monteil

By addressing the need for internet connectivity in rural areas Elisabeth has found an solution that addresses social inclusion and education for children. Her “Cyberspaces” provide internet connection, laptops and computers in villages, as well as a place for trainings and access to information technology for young students and apprentices.

Zemed Dibabe

The team of the project design weather adaptable modular and portable houses with local materials and local skills

Nathan Damtew

To expose mandatory computer programming, project teaches basics computer programming to primary school children from both affluent and underprivileged communities with our tailored hands–on, playful learning program to teach children coding. To get more children engaged in coding and to give parents a little glimpse of what coding is, there is a gamified programming learning app, Be Blocky, that would be both fun and interactive for kids.

Erasmus Acko & Marian Ewuram

Knowing just how important ICT skills are in an increasingly digital world, Erasmus Ackon and Marian Ewurama Wiredu saw an opportunity to help combat poverty through skills development. With a target on children aged 8 and up, the pair founded IT4Teens to train young people in topics ranging from basic computer skills to app development and graphic design to make them competitive and relevant in the job market and ensure a brighter future.

Tewordos Tadesse

All kinds of folktales stories are going to be translated in to different local language So that all the new generation knows much about themselves as well as the societies around them and beyond. In addition with that all good books for Kids written in international language also adopted to the local language to be animated stories.

Milena Basara

Creative Association «Hands» supports and empowers children in least developed communities with high-quality educational content as a basis for building their own future. This project specifically supports children who travel to school and, due to low development index of their community, spend hours waiting for school bus, by offering them access and participation in development programs.

Emnete Dillnessa Zewdie

Creating awareness to mothers through training, counseling and group discussion publishing books.

Karim GADJIGO

Mia Moké is an environmental education app for African children aged 4 to 10. The app features a young African girl who takes children on an entertaining journey with her where they read, sing colour and learn about nature, biodiversity and problems related to deforestation and pollution.

Cordie Aziz

Turning trash into cash is an innovative idea that helps communities stay healthy and create economic empowerment. Using cartoon characters like Jaku and the Earth Defenders, Cordie believes we can change behavioral patterns and help people learn to make a variety of useful products from waste items.

Joan Avit

GraphoGame Tanzania aims at improving quality of early childhood education through the dissemination of a child-friendly, game-based, educational innovation designed to help children learn reading easier and effectively.

Moges Tafesse

Serwah Quaynor

Serwah is a trained nurse practitioner and has experience working as a women's health educator. Serwah's 27 year old son was diagnosed with autism when he was a child and upon her return to Ghana from the United States found out there was no educational support for her son. The lack of educational programs for children with autism motivated her to start the AACT centre. A centre that trains caregivers all over the country, ensuring all children with autism get care and education, which is their right.

Ishmael Hammond

Ishmael has a mEducation solution which enables effective teaching of the English language using the phonetics of a local dialect (Twi ) for children with learning difficulties in Ghana. The App is multi-sensory and self-correcting, and can be used by schools, families and individuals.

Rahel Tsegaye

Providing children’s educational materials in a unique and attractive way for children from 2-7 years of age

Didier Lalaye

Didier combats the high prevalence of bilharzia by identifying the disease quickly through simple mobile testing units that use a feature phone to test for the disease! He has set up mobile testing units in villages which are vulnerable to the disease and face shortages in health care facilities. With his device children and adults can be diagnosed even without the need for them to leave their villages!

Eden Mengistu

Edify Kids improves children's reading fluency and comprehension through audio supported books

Jean Luc Semedo & Evelyne Ines

Jean and Evelyne have developed a web and mobile application platform to promote blood donation by registering blood donors and encouraging them to donate. The duo has already partnered with 19 blood banks in Senegal, and they plan to scale using SMS as a platform to roll out their initiative across the country. Their platform will use SMS and voice messages in French and in local languages to reach as many people as possible.

Louise Hammarbäck Miranda

PACS educates children, coaches and sports clubs in children's rights and physical integrity to prevent sexual abuse. The education is based on the articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Jenny Sköld & Lotta Bergseth

Mobile Stories offers a publishing tool that educates young people in media and information knowledge and strengthens their understanding in the evaluation of information. Using the tool, young people produce articles and other types of media that are published on the Mobile Stories.

Mariela Stanulova & Ralitsa Zhecheva

Parent Academy brings together experts (live and online), who share their knowledge on topics such as pregnancy, birth, health, education, upbringing.

Jobbsøkerhjelpen

Jobbsøkerhjelpen is a social enterprise founded in 2017. The founders, Matilda von Sydow, Miriam Mardan og Vegard Foseide, wanted to develop a non-commercial and easy to access offer for young job seekers. They offer free courses, guidance and follow up for young people who wants to get jobs. They also run projects and offer courses. They have developed a unique model, where they train up some of the young attendees to become course leaders and advisors to new batches of job seekers. This way they also provide peer learning and employment opportinities. Expectations from employers and the tools used in recruitment processes change constantly. Training in how to seek and apply for jobs also vary between schools and other accessible arenas. Jobbsøkerhjelpen know that many young people want to enter the job marked. They have experienced that a combination of professional and personal guidance, dedicated time for each individual and updated advice, give very good results.

Neven Boyanov & Ivaylo Nikolov

Tinusaur offers hardware, software and methodology which teaches children STEM in a fun and practical way.

Aibek Yessimov

Aibek has created a school, which allows children from orphanages to engage in artistic arts, and will make the process of socialization and adaptation in society more effective.

Wilson & Zakiya Amooro

This dynamic duo is creating a viable chamber orchestra with violins made from trash. This initiative seeks to create a cleaner, healthier, happier & better educated society through the power of classical music and recycling.

Lina Daxini

Croatian sign language for Children MIHA is a unique mobile app enriched with video materials and images and therefore adapted for children, foremost the ones with development difficulties who are recommended to use Croatian sign language to communicate.

Veronika Lendler

Young Helpers project supports and empowers children who are facing specific challenges of disability in the family. These children – Young Helpers – are provided with individual support and counseling as well as group support. The project also deals with advocacy aimed at formal recognition of Young Helpers in the social care system.

Jean Charles Cari

Artozik offers music making for children and youth to increase self-esteem, diversity and integration.

Patricia Ronel Neldingar

Patricia has developed a mobile platform that parents can use to follow up on their child's development in school. This platform allows parents to be actively involved in their child's progress and keep the school and their children accountable!

Muna Idow

Mermaid Swimming School promotes the importance of swimming amongst children and adults increasing self-esteem, safety and their belief in the future.

Josephine Marie Godwyll

Josephine founded Young at Heart Gh to improve education in rural areas in Ghana. Her solution makes use of technology to improve the learning experience of children in rural schools by empowering them with basic computer skills, setting up ICT learning hubs equipped with computers and educational software and encouraging the use of these facilities for distant learning tutorials.

Naomi & Yvette Kuseyo

Naomi and Yvette run a social enterprise that creates fun learning environments inside paediatric hospitals, allowing hospitalised children to continue their education.

Meried Mengesha & Heverine Getachew

Our vision is to see economically and technologically advanced farmers and visionary youth through manufacturing appropriate agriculture technology and equipping with employable skills.

Balnur Sugiraliyeva

Balnur maintains a website and social media pages to provide lessons and counseling on the sexual education for teenagers in Kazakh language.

Feven Zekarias

Working with micro and small enterprises made of youth, especially women. Train and provide all inputs necessary to start fish farming in cities and rural areas. As fish is the cheapest source of organic protein, and aquaculture farms employ a large number of people

Brenda-Deborah Shuma

Children with disabilities belong to one of the most vulnerable groups in Tanzania. They are often segregated from the rest of society and other children, they are denied their right to education, and they are deprived of a chance of creating a fruitful future for themselves. Brenda Deborah Shuma is working to address this problem by empowering these children with the vocational skills they need to generate income and build a future for themselves.

Cecilia Fiaka

Cecilia Fiaka helps children from having their childhoods cut short by teenage pregnancy, drug use and incomplete education. Nkeka Youth Foundation has touched the lives of thousands of Ghanaian kids through summer camps, tours, educational programs and career development, instilling a sense of self-worth and ambition that helps the youth focus on their future goals and dreams.

Leka Tingitana

Leka Tingitana is a tech specialist with a passion for creating digital solutions to problems in the health sector. Through his company LX Technological Solutions for Africa, Leka is developing a mobile communications platform EAFYA, to support the emerging network of Community Health Workers (CHWs) who are on the front-line in providing healthcare support to expectant and new mothers.

Herman Hesse

E-Reach Right foundation provides a book and digital app to help students improve their reading, writing, spelling, pronunciation and academic performance through a vocabulary assessment and enhancement program.

Nhana Samba

Nhana runs a training & integration program, Le Geste, that uses digital tools to educate hearing impaired children, breaking barriers and introducing them to the world of technology. Le Geste staff visit special schools for hearing impaired children and provide software and tools that allows them to use the Internet fully and free from barriers.

Yonas Lemma

Design and produce Amharic Alphabets teaching aid for kids that can use it to learn this language in a systematic and practical way

Mariam Mayoumbila

Mariam's social enterprise fights the huge problem of violence among Chadian children by equipping schools and parents with tools that use culture and self-expression to break the negative cycle of violence in schools.

Faraja Nyalandu

Faraja is creating digital educational content to empower youth and children via desktop and mobile learning services.

Sara Lydiksen & Kaja Vardøen

Ksenija & Siniša Benaković

This program of professional personal support offers systematic workshops for development of critical, creative and scientific thinking, emotional intelligence and various useful skills to gifted children.

Evelyne Naotordene

Evelyne Naotordene discovered that good quality foods are hard to find in schools, and parents do not know exactly what their children eat when they are at school. Through her initiative, the Naofood Project, Evelyne provides quality food to students during breaks. She works with nutritionists to identify food that are important for children’s growth and shares the menu with parents using through mobile phones!

Yodahe Tsehaye Gebremariam

Digital publishing can be a solution to create the culture of reading since it creates access to books with ease and an electronic platform is suitable to create a stable market in a country with an ever increasing mobile market. It can also provide a fair market for used books.

Bihaga Edward

Edward is an activist who is determined to eradicate child labour in Kigoma, Tanzania and beyond.

Predrag Mraović

This project aims to teach children and youth about entrepreneurship by creating a local eco gift shop where education and arts and crafts activities will be held and local people can sell their items.

Sandrina Sandell

Sandrina Sandell grunnla Løvetannakademiet sammen med Camilla Tryti med hensikt å hjelpe ungdom og unge voksne, som er eller har vært en del av barnevernet. Gjennom skreddersydde programmer, er målet at ungdommen skal opparbeide seg kunnskap og utvikle ferdigheter som gjøre dem rustet til å klare overgangen til voksenlivet på best mulig måte.

Shanga Aziz & Rogerio Silva

Locker Room Talk offers education and tools for young boys and adults that make it easy to talk about gender equality and attitudes to create a new masculinity.

Eskender Mulugeta

Eskindr introduces and trains kids and youth to start up vegetable gardening in small areas to compliment the nutritional needs

Mastewal Alebachew

Providing quality, comprehensive & holistic early childhood learning & care with a participation of professionals, communities and parents, targeting the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children in inclusive manner.

Adoumkidjim Naiban

Adoumkidjim has created the first center designed specifically for children with mental disabilities in Chad, where they can get education and vocational skills. Alongside educating children, his social enterprise is also working to support families of mentally disabled children and reduce societal stigma about mental disability.

Linda Ansong

Linda has a passion for IT and believes that everyone, girls and boys, young and old, can learn how to code and create apps and IT tools. She thinks that if children received a more solid S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education, they would have more chances to succeed in their adult life. Therefore, she will open a centre where children will be taught ICT and STEM in a fun and very practical way, through the actual production of products that can eventually be sold in the market.

Sara Yeboah

To inform, educate and empower young people in Ghana and Africa to make positive decisions concerning their health whilst building a sustainable proactive and healthy generation.

Patrick Kabangiro

Patrick runs an innovative solution called "itoo palucheck"; a medical mobile app that diagnoses malaria through infrared and Internet. With this amazing innovation, there is no need of a blood sample, or a microscope! This solution will also allow health professionals to do their activities quickly and effectively, reducing the death rate of malaria infected patients.

Hamere Mulgeta Abay

Children interact with nature at the center, play outdoor games with their parents, exercise and eat a healthy diet, become self-reliant and self-aware citizens.

Yves Iradukunda

Yves runs Academic Bridge, a social enterprise that empowers schools to efficiently collect and manage student's information and share this information with parents. This helps to improve the education system for children by creating environments in which parents are fully involved in their child's education and development.

Zhanna Karatai

Zhanna and her team are developing methodology for the rehabilitation and inclusion of kids with autism spectrum disorder. This methodology includes special summer mountain camps for kids and adaptive ski lessons in winter.

Dinara Mussakhanova

Dinara has created a center, where children from low income families and children with disabilities can get knowledge and skills in order to get financial rewards for their work and have prosperous independent life in future.

Ernestina Appiah

The Ghana Code Club connects elementary school children to computer science activities in their schools. It provides clubs for children between the ages of 8-16 to gain basic computing skills while learning to make their own games, animations and websites. The Ghana Code Club places an emphasis on programs for girls in an effort to close the digital gender gap.

Rahel Hiruy

A producer of a variety of dry herbs and essential oils that promotes healthy living in Ethiopia through sustainable use of natural environmentally friendly resources and inclusive supply chain.

Muday Mitiku

Muday Charity Association provides care and support for vulnerable single mothers, children and persons with disabilities by making them employed after they have got the trainings.

Susan Dahlbeck

Healthy Women runs a network that offers training and social gatherings to improve the physical and mental health of young women in the suburbs to promote a more equal society.

Erick Joseph

Erick has developed a digital application that helps informal workers save a portion of their earnings. It also tracks their income and expenses to help them build credit, access loans and create a better life for themselves and their families through access to financial services.

Razak Gausu & Abdul Alhassan

Razak and Abdul want to eliminate preventable disease and improve child health in Ghana. They provide a system that sends SMS and automated voice calls that remind parents of their child’s vaccinations and health checkups so that children's health is never overlooked.

Meruyert Argimbayeva

Meruyert opened the first charity shop in Kazakhstan ensuring financial support for children with brain and central nervous system diseases.

Nour Habib

Trygg Rätt inspires and supports young people who want to leave a criminal life by guiding them towards safe and meaningful jobs by offering lectures, guidance and connections to the business community.

Daniel Achamyelew Yemisrach Sisay

Duna designs and manufactures clean modern cooking stoves that convert heat energy into electricity.

Innocent Sulle

Innocent James' "My Little Travelling Library" concept is creating a network of mobile handcart libraries bringing books, run interactive reading classes and reading competitions for children in rural areas. Through this work, Innocent aims to inspire a reading culture among a generation of children, increasing literacy levels and independent learning.

Sam Zizinga

Sam is working to change the way that children learn, helping them to do better school. His Cartoon Home Network provides school-aged children with video simulations that provide practical demonstrations of the theory covered in the curriculum, to help them better retain concepts. Sam is currently building digital videos to support curriculum in all science courses in nursery, primary and secondary school levels.

Mirjana Bijelić

Grieving Children and Families Support Program is the first group support program for children who have suffered a loss of a close family member.

Israel A. Yeboah

Israel is using his organization Unilynq to eliminate the use of traditional student data storage in paper form while increasing the number of students passing their exam each year. Unilynq is a data storage system and an e-learning platform for students that keeps track of their academic data and helps students to enhance their learning. Unilynq is an online web application that can be used across various platforms including PCs and mobile devices.

Sinisaša-Senad Musić

Support and training of children and young Roma people in conversion of discarded objects (upcycling) through inclusive design and digital skills of narration stories about them, with the aim of developing employment skills and opportunities which increases self confidence of the young people and socio-economical participation, improves quality of their lives and changes perception of society about them.

Ernest Gavor

Ernest runs an innovative mobile-health solution that plans to increase voluntary blood donation and bridge critical gaps within the blood transfusion supply chain. His goal is to make blood readily available to mothers and children in need.

Judith Jønsby

Papmor arrange creative and theme-based workshops for refugee children. The children develop and explore their skills and innovative mindset. Each theme is designed to create a space where everyone can be engaged, across language and cultural background. Using recycled cardboard, they get to build and see their own ideas come to life.

Julien Daniel MItali

Julien helps students prepare for and pass their national examinations through a digital platform that connects them to learning materials, career development and specialized teachers.

Dominique Uwase Alonga

Dominique is a young activist who is using her organization, Imagine We, to create a vibrant reading culture among children in Rwanda. Imagine We organizes national read-a-thon events and is working to equip schools across the country with their own libraries. The read-a-thon program is implemented through an interactive, child-friendly website and mobile app that children use to enter the competition and to find interesting and fun reading materials.

Bekri Ahmedin

A creative, interactive, coaching and mentoring program to develop children's internal motivation and creativity

Brukty Tigabu

It creates educational media programs – including 3 internationally awarded television series for children in Ethiopia – all to improve literacy, health education, gender equality and early childhood education.

Adane Firde

The project provides a well-planned and executed Ethiopian Based after school program based on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education.

Nataša Bahun

Empowering children and families faced with autism via education, expert supervision, support groups and trainings for parents plus creation of the network of assistants who will develop social skills of children through play therapy.

Krum Krumov & Simona Krumova

Carrot offers educational materials and consultations for early child development. With their help, parents can develop their kids' skills and knowledge in a home environment in an exciting way from their very first months.

Mulunesh Jebessa Woldesenbet

Accelerating the production, utilization, and marketing of amaranth plant. Its seeds and leaves are rich in protein and micronutrient such as Vitamin A, Iron, calcium folinate and its oil is rich in fatty acid omega 3 which is very necessary for children growth

Betelhem Mengistu Bethelhem Kahassay

By scientifically analyzing, children’s need from outdoor space, creating educational playground design that is cost effective which will help children learn and play at the same time and help their holistic development.

Fatma Guettou & Hamid Noroozian

Watoto Arts creates dolls that represent appearances of all children as well as different family constellations, to promote inclusive play and a future without discrimination.

Ivana Šalić

Inclusive Farm will be a place for psychosocial support and the service of day-care, where children and young people with disabilities will be enabled for independence and independent living, better integration and inclusion in the society using the methods of non-formal education.

Khalid Fadoul

Khalid Fadoul's social innovation addresses the lack of quality content for students as well as teachers, resulting in low academic performance in Chad. Khalid's organization Technidev develops quality educational contents that students could access using their mobile phones or computers.

Emile Babu

Emile is developing a virtual marketplace to help low-income workers not only to earn more income, but also to lay the foundation for them to build credit so that they can access small loans to help their families and send their children to school.

Silvena Hristova & Krassimir Lambov

The project Life with Down Syndrom aimes to provoke the interest and awareness of the society towards the Down Syndrome trough a series of entertaining and informative video clips of Krassimir and Silvena’s children - Kris and Mikaela who is diagnosed with the Syndrom.

Sharnel Deo

Sharnel runs a Mobile Computer lab for public primary schools, a project which is implemented by PEN Tanzania Organization to improve the quality of ICT education and learning outcome in Tanzania. This project integrates the use of ICT through provision of computer training in primary schools.

Carolyne Ekyarisiima

Carolyne believes in empowering girls with ICT skills because she believes in their capacity and innovation power.

Sheila Osei Boakye

Literacy for Life aims to equip trainers of pupils with the skills required to lay a strong foundation for language and literacy. It also equips children with the ability to build a strong foundation for reading and literacy which is the vehicle for academic excellence.

Viktoria Velichkova Yana Lipovanska

Margaritka is a project created by Vicktoria Velichkova and Yana Lipovanska with the aim to entertain and educate the youngest children (0-5) with music and 3D videos, as well as to help their parents find a way to their children.

Alexander Ponomarev Maria Genina

Alexander and Maria have developed an educational program aimed at building respectful and trusting relationship between children and parents.

Belinda Hornshøj

Belinda Hornshøj has come up with the concept of HeartWork, a way of including social entrepreneurship in the public school system by making use of the interdependency between pre- or ground school children and senior citizens. The exchange of experience and close connection between old and young benefit all children and seniors - but especially those children that thrive less in the public school system and the seniors that are the most vulnerable.

Tajebe Dessalegn

A digital learning environment for students and educational institutions. It includes online and offline digital learning environments for students to actively access and produce knowledge anytime and anywhere.

Gaspard Twagirayezu

Gaspard develops programs and tools designed to increase interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) among children through fun and engaging activities.

Bezawit Worku

Using Merged technology and education to deliver personal and professional skill development trainings in local languages i.e. Amharic, Oromo, Tigrigna. Delivering short term online trainings through the internet.

Katarina Tašev

“Ku-kuc! The Story is Inside” is contributing to increasing the quality of life and relationship between parents and children using the help of thematic products, different play materials and common leisure time activities.

Louis NGABONZIZA

In Rwanda, children with hearing impairments can be excluded from formal education and society at large, resulting in illiteracy, stigmatization in their communities and socio-economic marginalization as adults. Louis’ organization Empowering Children with Disabilities is working to change this and to ensure that deaf children access the resources they need to succeed. By providing hearing impaired children and youth with formal education, technology and vocational skills, Louis is working to build a generation of confident, self-sufficient young Rwandans.

Yana Genova &Iskra Djanabetska & Dessislava Gavrilova

Knigovishte is an educational internet platform which develops children’s reading comprehension skills and enhances the pleasure of book reading.

Daniela Sadikova & Boyana Kotseva

Daniela and Boyana’s aim is to provide acess to different types of sport for children with disabilities and other development problems trough equipment and trainings for adapted sport.

Adane Alemu

The organization exists to contribute to the improvement of the lives of the children from low income families so that they are able to benefit from education, health, livelihood, and other basic social services and capacity building opportunities

Martine Umulisa

Martine's social enterprise targets Rwanda's most vulnerable children and helps them to overcome challenges they face by developing their artistic talents using theatre, music, dance and fine arts.

Daniel Tadesse

Spreading awareness, promoting child well-being and providing counseling support to victims

Kassim Nagwere

The organization Drömstort encourages young people in economically disadvantaged areas to dream big by offering workshops, lectures, homework support and sports and cultural activities.

Alfiya Smagulova

Alfiya deals with luck of high quality education and vocational guidance for teenagers and youth in rural area by creating an edutainment centre.

Kunka Velikova & Nina Dimova

Things with Soul creates educational games and materials which help children with special educational needs learn easily while playing.

Dagim Temesgen

Manipulating videos and internet to make a domestic e-Learning platform. Making quality lecture videos available online in the native language of the user for free

Dawit Fikre

Providing easy communication between the school and parents using android application. Beside sending students academic information using this application we also provide tips about parenting and some useful guidance how to help their children's as a blog and parents can comment back their ideas.

Nyakwesi Mujaya

Makini addresses street children of Dar es Salaam by providing them with access to health facilities, social services, basic education and most importantly imparting life skills through the arts.

Sijis Dienga Dikete

Sijis Dienga Dikete inspires disadvantaged youth through sports programming and camps where excellence on the field is taught alongside critical life and success skills.

Alice Amoako

Alice's organization conducts autism awareness activities that will change the the way Ghana and the world look view people with autism. She has developed an app that educates and informs the public about autism and also provides an emergency response system for caregivers of autistic children, who are often marginalized in society.

Yiknubeh H.Michael

The solution is to provide computer programming training starting from grade 2 according to the level of children by preparing their training programs at schools during the weekends.

Kiiya JK

C-Sema runs the National Child Helpline (CHL) in-collaboration with the Government of Tanzania. The National Child Helpline helps children in need of care and protection through a toll-free 116 telephone line available across all networks in Tanzania.

Enkunesh Azanew

A quality, holistic and affordable early childhood care and learning center which provides nutritious food, medical check-ups, foundational learning, and structured and unstructured play for children from low and middle income families. The project also serves as a bridge to connect less privileged children with sponsors (individuals or organization) so that they are able to attend the center.

Genet Beyene

Ledeg Crafts is a social enterprise established to provide crafts activities for children aged between 4 and 12, nurturing creativity.

Tomáš Pouch

The project provides physically disabled children with special hand-bikes that nobody has yet produced.

Auxilia Ndamage

Auxilia is working to include Rwanda's farmers in the financial system by digitizing the agriculture value chain and providing farmers with access to financial services like savings, loans and pensions so that they can provide their families with a better future.

Thadei Msumanje

Thadei Msumanje works to decrease Tanzania’s rural-urban divide by bringing ICT to rural communities, where few children have access to it today.

Getachew G/Hiwot

Creating aiding tools that could ease the day-to-day activities of person with disability, elderly people and pregnant women such as mobile toilet, mobile shower, recliner chair, wheelchairs & patient beds with mobile sanitation system.

Jelena Ribić

Family Tales is a community of writers who create tailor-made fairy tales for children in orphanages based on the experiences of each individual child with a goal of increasing their self-confidence and eliminating fears and trauma.

Emenet Mersha

The company works with both vulnerable women and their children who produce scarves, jewelry and soap in export standard and thus are able to have a decent life and job opportunities.

Neema Shosho

Afya Slices uses digital tools to provide nutritional information targeting mothers, caretakers and health providers to reduce the infant mortality rate and malnutrition among children up to five years old. Neema's social innovation uses a mobile platform to provide information on how to use locally available & affordable food to improve child nutrition.

Mulugeta Gebru

Social entrepreneurship activities in order to generate income and thereby support the vulnerable community .

Georgios Karpathakis

Underbara ADHD is a platform where children with ADHD, their families and others can educate one another and improve their understanding of the diagnosis. The vision is that by highlighting the positive with an ADHD diagnosis children's self-image and confidence can be enforced.

Alesya Nugayeva

Nugayeva Alesya is an art-therapist, she realizes creative art-projects: decorations, articles, playing grounds made from salvage. Her motto is “From consumer to creator!”

Sanna Rasmussen

Familiestøtten (Family Support) helps economically disadvantaged families by matching them with resourceful families, and is thereby reducing the economic difficulties of vulnerable families, so parents get more time to be parents and children can be allowed to be children.

Camilla Nellemann & Helene Cooper Larsen

Sprogeriet develops research-based tools that stimulate children’s language skills. They are based on playing in the shape of board games and apps. The vision of Sprogeriet is to create the best circumstances for the development of children’s language skills in a fun, easy-going way for children and their parents together.

Olga Kolpakova

Olga Kolpakova and her team interest “difficult teenagers” in organizing performances that popularize healthy life-style and support children in difficult life situation.

Tamilya Anchutkina

Tamilya believes that for small kids their connection with mother is very important. That is why together with her team she opened a co-working center with the playroom and a nanny where women can work near their children.

Nathan Mulugeta

kNANDs is a web platform that connects businesses to interns and provides young graduates with internship opportunities. The platform helps businesses find the best fitting candidates while providing graduates with invaluable professional experience.

Bizuayehu Jenbere

Design and production of special education materials that enable blind children to learn mathematics and geometry easily.

Mårten Granlund

Under Kevlaret is an organization providing support for, and by, young men to prevent mental distress. The organization inspires young men to talk about feelings, ask for help and support each other by offering lectures, a support chat and raising public awareness.

Peter Kwarteng

Peter Kwarteng strives to reduce the mortality rate of newborns by giving health personnel easy access to life-saving information through movile phones. His work is improving the chances of survival for vulnerable babies through education, institutional networking and financial support for critical emergency medical care.

Mikaela Illanes

Inicio strives to improve digital knowledge and offer all young people equal opportunities to participate and contribute to sustainable and smart societies of the future. Inicio offers practical and technology-focused workshops that are designed to equip participants with 21st century skills and include: critical thinking, information of media knowledge and technology as well as social skills.

Hayford Siaw

Street Library brings mobile libraries to rural communities in order to promote literacy and educational curiosity among children in rural areas.

Dr Amha Haile

Quality and family centered speech therapy service through one speech therapy center and five outreach programs (3 schools and 2 child development centers). Project includes also public education and training, research and advocacy

Vytautas Butkus

Education platform for schools that utilizes the computer game Minecraft to increase the motivation of students.

Lotte Hornemann Søjborg

Lotte has come up with the idea of the “Healthy Kids Academy” (HKA), a 10-week long, specially developed weight-loss-program for overweight children and their families. In the 10-week period the children will exchange their mandatory school attendance from their normal schools to the HKA, where focus is on becoming healthy again.

Mikhail Krivonos

Job center for orphanage graduates and young people with disabilities. In this center children from partner companies learn how to write CV, pass an interview and get a job.

Louise Havkær og Christina Havning

Designed Learning creates physical products that bring together children and their parents, which creates presence and attentiveness. In an easy and educational manner, children should learn to choose being close to their parents rather than isolating themselves through electronics.

Rasmus Thøger Christensen

LIVSKRAFT organize rehabilitation camps for young people affected by cancer and their siblings. At the camps the young people develop their personal, social, creative and physical strengths, and learn how to use their course of illness to make them stronger.

Nils Holm

På rätt köl is an educational concept for students with ADHD & ADD. The concept combines traditional, theoretical studies with life coaching and boat building.

Aliya Arkharova

Aliya Arkharova – the mother of a child with autism and the author of a program that creates new possibilities for children with autism and changes the atitude of the society towards them.

Miriam Lundqvist

LajvVerkstaden uses live action role-playing as a pedagogical tool for students, who create exciting learning situations by playing different characters.

Metasebia Mammo

Metasebia improves relationships between parents and children through parenting trainings, to help children grow into confident, resilient adults who likely to succeed.

Anna Lindh

Right To Play Sweden supports newly arrived young people get jobs, contributes to better conditions for them to become active participants in society and works against discrimination.

Sanna Bergendahl

Föreningen Storasyster mentors sexually abused children so that they’re able to talk about their experiences and get the help they need.

Yerlan Kumiskaliev

Yerlan has created a special dog therapy center to help children with mental disabilities and special needs, who were recognized by official medicine as hopeless.

Tina Marie Tsiplakis

Ivaylo Bonev & Mihajlo Nikolic

Technokrati is an educational centre for children utilizing new technologies which stimulate children's imagination and give them scientific and practical knowledge.

Sherry Hakimnejad

Kompass & Co gir yrkesopplæring og gir tilgang til arbeidserfaring for ungdom som har gått ut av skolen. Kompass & Co øker ungdommens selvtillit og deres tro på egne evner.

Ilze Džonsone & Diāna Elekse

Innovative program, designed to teach children Emotional Intelligence through the care for animals.

Amir Sajadi & Milad Mohammadi

Järvaskolan works to create an equal school where every pupil gets inspired to have limitless dreams and motivation towards a higher education.

Ezinne Okparaebo

Sandra Kinnaman Nordström

The Good Talents is leadership and social entrepreneurship programs for youth. The program aims to give youths the knowledge, tools and networks needed to survive in an increasingly unstable job market. The Good Talents provides companies, municipalities and civil society organizations an unique opportunity to meet, interact and forge relationships with young people they would never come in contact with otherwise.

Mārtiņš Gulbis

Science School Laboratorium offers summer science camps and a program with systematic weekly lessons in physics and chemistry - informative, cognitive and fascinating at the same time. The goal is to let children, in the ages 8 to 16 to fall in love with science and choose profession connected to this field in the future.

Giedrius Bučas

Creative angle 360 - a place for children to learn about and act on environmental issues.

Emilian Kadiiski & Teodor Kostadinov

Emilian and Teodor created IT center in an underdeveloped part of Bulgaria where they teach children free IT courses, broadening their horizons and influencing their ways of life.

Maria Lenskjold Christensen

Maria has founded and runs Læseuniverset (The Universe of Reading), which is an intensive reading and writing course offered in-house at her Læseuniverset-school. Children attending are either taken out of class or receive teaching in their school-holidays. The reading course is so efficient, that a week at Læseuniverset, on average, raises the child’s lix-number (the ability to read and write increasingly complex words) by 3 (compared to 5, on average, in a whole school year)!

Solomon Desalegn

Facilitating access to both formal and informal education is a key solution. By working together with government, non-government and private partners, these vulnerable children and young adolescents finish training packages on-life skills, financial literacy and businesses coupled with direct support to encourage their saving practices and studies.

Signe Naessing

Vi er venner have created the world's first friendship app for people with developmental disabilities. They enable online friendships where everyone can join, as communication happens via video and audio. Er er venner app is a welcoming and safe platform to connect with people across disabilities, mobility, housing, and work. Vi er venner app makes it possible to meet new friends based on common interests.

Regina Honu

Regina is addressing the gender gap in ICT by connecting girls to female computer science and engineering pros who teach and inspire the youth. Girls in the program learn critical thinking skills they need to solve problems in their communities, to build their confidence and to set them on a path to become future leaders and tech innovators.

Asta Blažinskienė

Educational center that offers a complex, holistic approach and research-based methods and programs helping children to improve their academical, cognitive and social skills.

Kalkidan Mangesha

Free Generation helps curb substance abuse among young Ethiopians through prevention trainings for parents, teachers and youth, counselling services, educational entertainment programs, in-school clubs and peer support.

Susan Sabaa

Susan Sabaa works with children who are in or have been released from the juvenile justice system, to reintegrate them into the community.

Natassia Fry & Pegah Afsharian

Kompis Ungdom is a buddy program connecting established Swedes with newly arrived youth with the aim to erase cultural and social barriers among Swedish youth. Kompis Ungdom’s vision is to build long lasting friendship between peers in order to reduce cultural polarization and to combat exclusion in Sweden.

Viktorija Gasperiūnaitė

We provide mobile youth work. When mobile youth workers arrive in a youth residence, there is often no youth work infrastructure that takes into account the individual needs of young people living in the area. We offer different methods to respond to them: group and individual consultations, community education, games, meetings with interesting people, hiking, cooking, etc.

Randolph Rodrigues & Wolanyo Amoah

This wonderful tag team is working on an Interactive platform to share the process of reading and writing stories/novels. The platform will allow anyone to sign up for an account – they can write and share their own stories as well as contribute to those being created by other members of the network.

Mila Tatović Ramljak & Ivana Kostić & Anita Juka

We strengthen self-confidence of youth without parental care for independence and labor market integration with specialized trainings in CV development, coordinating finances and networking with employers.

Johan Wendt

Mattecentrum offers students free mathematics coaching through open-house tutoring sessions and the online tool matteboken.se

Lisa Cooper

Lisa grunnla Catalyst for å hjelpe ungdom som står i fare for ikke å fullføre utdanningen sin. Catalyst er et mentor- og coachingprogram, som matcher ungdom, primært ungdom med minoritetsbakgrunn, til en personlig mentor som følger dem i 6 måneder.

Jean Toningar

Jean Toningar produces an award-winning cereal that parents can learn to make on their own, in order to prevent malnutrition among children in Chad.

Lily Kudzro

Understanding the role that creative arts play in children’s cognitive, social and emotional development, Lily is working to revitalize the arts in Ghana – as an extracurricular activity and in traditional classrooms – through community and school workshops, a mobile arts bus and by strengthening the ties between arts teachers across Ghana.

Egita Matulēna

A structured and cozy environment in which the child knows the rules, the child has the opportunity to coordinate his / her own time and set priorities, learn to solve problems and develop other life-important skills. Teachers at Guldas (home school are emotionally intelligent with a tendency to support the child and promote the opening of his / her potential.

Tamara Pracaić & Vanda Briški

Speech therapy services in Croatia are centralized and usually offered with a long waiting periods. This project offers online speech diagnostics and therapy for all who need it, without space or time limitations.

Clarissa Meister-Petersen

Clarissa Meister-Petersen has created Filiorum and the initiative "Dramatic Art on the School Timetable", an innovative learning concept that integrates professional theatrical performances with courses of study that are tailor-made for the specific pupils and the individual schools.

Stavros Stavru & Iva Grueva

The Poppals are digital educational games, which help children learn to work in a team.

Diana Lapkis & Anna Lokomete

The idea of project LabākKopā is to integrate primary and secondary school pupils from socially disadvantaged families, boarding schools and orphanages into society. Within the project, each child gets a student-mentors, who will not only help a child to get better grades in school, but also will become his friend, an example and a role model. Students-mentors will help pupils to believe in themselves and find talents to be developed, through formal and informal teaching methods.

Gabriella Meinert-Medici

Genklange makes use of classical music to develop children's recreational and immersion skills, as well as their language skills. The music is made into a common language where everyone can participate regardless of ethnic origin.

Rosie Linder & Jesper Engström

Peppy Pals is an award-winning organization developing fun, educational games and books that nurture children's Emotional Intelligence (EQ). It is a unique way of learning and experiencing emotions, empathy, collaboration and friendship without ”right or wrong

Noella Thindwa

Noella Thindwa provides entrepreneurship training for single mothers ages 13 to 18, as well as a network of free, bilingual nurseries for their children.

Birgitte Toft-Petersen and Laura Nørlev Nyby

Project Q-Værk offers boot camps and group sessions for children who have experienced their mother being in an abusive relationship. Through play and activities, the children acquire tools to express and deal with the challenges they meet in the process of moving forward towards a life without violence. Furthermore, the children experience that they are not alone.

Teibi Torm

Teibi established a civil society initiative called "Back to School” to strengthen the cooperation between Estonian schools and the rest of the society.

Nerijus Buivydas

Nerijus has opened a Democratic school to change the Lithuanian education system and aspire for an education system that will take into consideration the student's´needs and abilities, resulting in better quality in teaching and learning, and overall satisfaction.

Åsa & Johanna Olsson Järnhäll

Barnkraft’s educational programme teaches personnel in schools, preschools and the public sector to listen to, understand and help sexually abused children.

Elisaveta Belobradova Krasimira Hadjiivanova

Ole Male aims to support the mothers of children with disabilities helping them maintain financial stability by promoting and selling their handmade products.

Melat Habtemariam & Ammanuel Lemma

Tatari connects employers to energetic, vetted young people. It provides an income to youth who can accept jobs when it is convenient for them (eg. fitting it around their studies) while addressing a gap in the job market by access to casual workers.

Soledad Piñero Misa

Retoy creates play areas with and for children – places where they can play, borrow, exchange and learn about sustainability and the child convention.

Per Nygaard

Per Nygaard has created "NinjaSkolen", for children that have difficulties believing their abilities. Through role-playing, idolizing, training and playing hese children can become more confident about their own strenghts, have their self-esteem and courage level elevated and establish a better body awareness.

Marija Dautartaitė & Ona Marija Vyšniaus

MaMaDu is a solution that helps build future society. By providing parents with text messages that offer adequate knowledge and advices on how to respond to children’s needs we will help every child of Lithuania to reach full potential.

Rūdolfs Cešeiko & Līva Vecvanaga (ex Jankēviča)

Unique, individually designed, treatment course for children of all ages that aims to help improve a sensory process disorder.

Svetlana Titova

The graduate of SOS Children's Villages Svetlana believes that every kid needs a mentor, who can give a positive example, especially kids from SOS villages and orphanages. That is why she decided to start mentoring program for orphans.

Abel Hailegiorgis

Abel designs and builds innovative wheelchairs made out of bamboo that are vastly cheaper than any other wheelchair available in Ethiopia.

Diāna Mekša

SOLIS AUGŠUP is a day centre for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). A place where professionals (speech therapist, ABA therapist, ergotherapist, masseur) and volunteers work together to improve the life quality of children with autism and to support their families.

Julia Östfeldt

Föreningen Tillsammans actively works to spread knowledge about sexual violence and its consequences through lectures and sharing their own stories with the aim to reduce sexual violence. Föreningen Tillsammans also work with support groups both for individuals who have been exposed to sexual violence, group work and mentorship programs.

Stoyana Stoeva & Maya Doneva

The Teahouse of Maya Doneva and Stoyana Stoeva aims to provide first job to young people raised in institutions as an instrument for achieving independent lifestyle and social environment of high quality.

Ivan Dimov Nikoleta Gabrovska

Single Step by Ivan Dimov and Nikoleta Gabrovska provides support to LGBTI youth and their families in the difficult process of self-acceptance, coming out and affirming their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Tatjana Makovey (ex Tarasova)

Interactive textile book for children with autism to be used as a learning tool and a toy. It is an innovative way to help children with autism to be more independent.

Dejene Adem

Dejene supports economically disadvantaged women in urban areas through vertical farming. Women can grow and sell fresh vegetables safely without polluted water, using a strong, easily portable and cost effective bamboo frame.

Anton Håkanson

DayCape is a digital calendar app for people with autism, which supports them throughout their day and that they can plan at their own pace. Using the help of images and reminders the app gives the user a clear overview of the day. The app can be shared and customized, to not only make it easier to use but also to allow those taking part in your day to plan the schedule.

Sergejs Petrovs

Application providing 3 key functions: motivating youngsters to do sports, giving online access to the city's sport infrastructure, suggesting time/place and candidates to contest / build a team.

Ida Östensson

Our vision is an equal and inclusive society. With practical methods, we help organizations to reach and include audiences they find it difficult to reach.

Natalya Shimina

Partners in joy help to preserve children’s right to play and try to relieve stress in children staying in hospitals for a long period of time, with the help of laughter therapy.

Mariana Mutso

Mariana established the Academy of Climbing to offer activity-based opportunities for children and to stimulate the development of their self-confidence along with physical health.

Artem Sorokin

Artem coordinates Joiner's shop "RukiOttuda" where children with disabilities can learn joinery meanwhile earning some money, building relations with other people and taking responsibility for their work.

Camilla Skare

Fysak Camp tilbyr fysiske aktiviteter til barn, for å øke deres fysiske og mentale helse. Camilla har også som mål å bygge et solid utgangspunkt for barn for å opprettholde og nyte en sunn livsstil gjennom livet.

John Laselle

Löparakademin helps youth living in Stockholm’s housing projects set and achieve personal goals through long-distance running.

Deborah Ahenkorah

Through her NGO, Deborah aims to inspire the creation, ensure the production and facilitate the distribution of enthralling, high quality, culturally relevant literary content by African writers and illustrators for African children.

Anna Tikhomirova

Bumper Book Bus help children to fall in love with reading. This is a children’s book club on wheels, the shop with the best children’s books that travels around the country.

Dalia Mikoliūnaitė

DRĄSIŲ KALVĖ - interactive theatre for socially excluded children - increasing their self-esteem, helping to discover and to develop their talents.

Irma Liubartienė

Irma has the ambition to increase EQ among teachers in Lithuania through a 4 modules EQ program called "Dramblys". She aims to introduce an EQ quality mark to schools in the country.

Eva Viļķina

Social care center for underage mothers and mothers, who are abused in a family. In the center mothers will get professional psychological support, learn how to take care of their baby, different profession skills and will receive help to finish school.

Michael Baabu

Michael's social enterprise promotes safety among children and youths by striving to prevent traffic accidents, falls, fires, drownings, suffocations and more.

Elena Timofeeva

The mission of Safe House foundation is to prevent human trafficking and to provide support to victims.

Tesfanesh Tadesse

Tesfanesh supports a particularly vulnerable group - teenage mothers and street mothers who have no access to employment or health services - by providing counselling, vocational training and employment through the baking and selling of injera.

Gunilla Lundberg

IT Guide offers evening or holiday work opportunities to unaccompanied and newly arrived minors that are recruited to become IT guides, educating seniors in IT. The tasks assigned could include general help with internet and other mobile services. Simultaneously, the youth learn Swedish, gain work experience and develop their strengths.

Simona Koncytė

Pocket Hero offers the production and adaptation of special clothing for children who must carry medical devices, according to their needs. The clothing will help children to better integrate into society, enhance freedom of movement, and safe carrying of devices.

Yana Leonova

Yana has been working in non-profit since 2002. In "Change one life" she ensures the process of creating short videos about children and is responsible for popularization of charity program.

Geremachew Wagaye

Ethio-SciTech solution is an innovative group working to deliver quality education by providing digital platforms with contents of video tutorials with local languages and experimental apparatus, appropriate lab handouts, and other instructional material.

Eva Fog

DigiPippi is an online portal that strives to meet girls where they are, and in doing so, make information technology feel more relevant and interesting to them. On the portal, the girls learn about women who have made a career within the IT world, which will help them identify with these role models who share their interest. Through its community chats, forums, and offline social events, the girls will be able to live out, develop, and expand their interest for IT with like-minded peers.

Dana Narvaiša

Dana identified the gap in the educational system and child upbringing, the period, where parents don't hear or understand the child needs and created the program for parents and children on how to close that gap. Because this gap exists in many families, regardless of the child specifics, this child (even from a very good family) may have problems with education and behavioural issues in the future, this child may become a bully or be bullied.

Patricia Raweka

GroPlay.com produces local, environmentally friendly, educational toys, games and apps that make learning about the environment fun.

Giedrė Šopaitė-Šilinskienė

Giedre‘s goal is to give all-around support to the families of premature babies. The e-platform Anksti.lt will offer a range of specific preemie care products and help baby‘s parents, siblings and all others who surround the family.

Ekaterina Yosifova & Nataliya Alexandrova & Stanka Stoyanova

The mission of About Food Foundation is to make sure all kids at home, in the kindergarten, at school and in the restaurant eat nutritious and high-quality food.

Mirko Miilits

The idea of Smart Kids, created by Mirko, is to bring innovative solutions in children's education using new and modern technologies.

Ayatam Simineh

Ayatam Simineh has developed a model for providing free soap and hygiene training within schools to prevent absenteeism and the spread of diarrheal infections.

Merit Lilleleht

Creating healthy sleeping routines for babies are extremely important. Merit and her team support young parents with the tools and knowledge for healthy sleeping habits for their children through consultations both at home and online.

Nassima Dzair

Nassima startet InterBridge for å hjelp ungdom til å utvikle kompetanse som gjør dem rustet til å bli endringsagenter i sine lokalsamfunn. InterBridge tilbyr kurs som har til hensikt å bygge ungdommers kapasitet, utvikle lederegenskaper og bidra til å forebygge sosial utstøtelse.

Saad Yusuf Hashi & Firdawsa Ahmed

Saad og Firdawsa startet Atlas Kompetanse fordi de ønsket å forbedre kommunikasjonen mellom foreldre med minoritetsbakgrunn og offentlige systemer, slik som skole og barnevern. Målet er å støtte foreldre i deres rolle slik at de bedre kan kommunisere med barna sine, og med de systemene barna er tilknyttet.

Anna Shelepova

Anna and her team build multifunctional sports grounds in Almaty, making sport accessible for all children including children from dysfunctional families who don't have opportunity to buy special equipment.

Vaida Jasiulevičienė

"Unique child" is a web platform where children can increase their self esteem and resilience through games.

Jakob Friis og Nicolaj Sand

Meptek helps participants in strengthening their presentation skills by using using 360 degree cameras and Virtual Reality. Meptek aids both organizations and children with their body language as well as helping with homework and exams. They also increase children's confidence and prepare them for further education.

Mikael Højbjerg & Thomas Mose

Mikael Højbjerg and Thomas Mose have created "Ordblindetræning" an online platform that provides dyslexic aid training for children, in private as well as in school. The tool can target the specific needs of the child with dyslexia, adjusting for the child’s age, degree of dyslexia and the environment in which the dyslexia training is taking place.

Fassika Fikre

Fassika and his partner Tizzita are reducing Ethiopia's high maternal and infant mortality rate using mobile technology, providing timely and relevant information to pregnant women using an SMS application that works on any mobile phone.

Masresha Beniam

Masresha runs a training center that provides interactive, practical and real time training in programming and coding. The centre promotes skills in software and mobile app development among youth - especially girls - to bring about quality products to the world and fill the digital gap, while solving real world problems.

Nikoleta Popkostadinova

Nikoleta ​Popkostadinova is going to create an online platform, open and honest, to fill in the gaps in sexual health education of Bulgarian teenagers

Faridah Shakoor

Abloom Filmfestival samler barn, ungdom og foreldre for å redusere tabuer knyttet til funksjonshemninger. Den primære målgruppen er minoritetsfamilier, der tabuene ofte er dyptgående. Abloom Filmfestival tar sikte på å redusere isolasjon, ensomhet og lav selvtillit som mange barn med funksjonshemminger ofte opplever.

Rasa Vyšniauskienė

Online crowdfunding platform that enables children and young people to present their individual non-formal education activities and needs to potential sponsors and to collect the necessary amount of support to achieve the goals.

Blen Mandefro

BiltTota Children’s Play learning Product” a line of various products that are designed to engage children in play while teaching them life and cognitive skills critical to success in life.

Anna Kašina

Fairy tale board game and mobile app that helps parents to communicate with children even about very complex issues.

Saidzhan Maximov

Saidzhan helps to implement and develop the culture of wearing reflective clothing and accessories, as well as to make them available for sale.

Aleksandrs Morozovs

Young Folks LV is an organisation that empowers youngsters and helps them develop their skills and realise their full potential. Organisation provides various activities for youngsters, like School of Profession, leadership program Realitychangers, photography, painting, swimming and math lessons, as well as a summer camp for small kids, where youngsters become the leaders and project managers.

Ina Grasmane

Ina created Love House where children are looking for an answer to the question “who am I?” with the careful guidance from adults. Latvian specialists developed education, training and therapeutic system called "Pedagogy of Love" that is being implemented in the LoveHouse. This unique system is teaching children to love the life. It also teaches adults how to talk to children so that the child would get the message “We Love You!”

Tina Nielsson

New connections are formed and those that already exist, are strengthened. The eyesight is optimized as to improve the signals the brain receives, and the coordination is strengthened through many different, fun and diversified exercises. In short, it’s exercise for the brain. This allows for a more diversified and inclusive way of education, both for the many and for the vulnerable and challenged few.

Edita Gilė

"Viking village“ presents an innovative method for teaching history via experiential education.

Milena Tashkova Sofia Ferdinandova

Milena Tashkova and Sofia Ferdinandova founded Life by the Kilo with the aim of preventing eating disorders among pupils in the 5th-12th grade. They want to show pupils the connection between eating habits, emotions and the way they see themselves.

Еvgenia Sarafova & Dimitar Zhelev

The mission of Geograf BG is to make science interesting for children by providing high quality web content and creative workshops, through which children can have fun while making great discoveries.

Malin Agn

Sundare Barn supports parents of overweight children by providing online advice and by arranging health care seminars and exercise trips for families.

Mikhail Epshtein

Mihail organized the first Russian Interactive "Math World" museum, where children can feel beauty and elegance of mathematical ideas and forget about their fear of this school subject.

Arkan Asaad

By engaging and educating youth ambassadors to spread the knowledge of universal equality and the idea that nothing in life is impossible.

Elin Wernquist

Barnrättsbyrån works with children and young people’s human rights. It is Sweden’s first advocacy service devoted to children’s rights which offer individual children and young people practical help, support and advice.

Felix Uzor

Felix Fitness offers programs that promotes water safety by educating students and informing beach and hotel managers about proper safety precautions. Using education and advocacy, Felix has raised awareness about the risks of water activities and how to prevent drownings. He has also equipped hundreds of young people with water safety, rescue and CPR skills.

Lina Lagerbäck

We United Design, founded by Lina Lagerbäck, builds educational spaces created by youth, that are engaging, creative and where their voices are represented. They empower youth to take ownership over their physical environments around them and do it in an environmentally friendly way.

Darius Juravičius

Mobile learning application with a smart pocket money as a reward system

Artiomas Šabajevas

Providing specialized help for children with obesity and overweight.

Liene Shomase

Liene has developed her own special method “Inspiring through the music with breathing underlyings”, that teaches children to see and develop their talents. Lienes studio goal is to give a possibility for children and teenagers from economically disadvantaged families, orphanages or foster families to develop their creativity and grow into confident and opinionated parts of society. Studio offers a special program that includes the art of speech, styling courses, image creation, singing and music therapy classes.

Alīse Potaša

Speech development bubble kits for children and a set of breathing / blowing exercises to improve speech skills for preschool children.

Veselina Feldman

Veselina Feldman proposes a modern innovative therapy – Equine-Assisted Therapy - for improving functioning and quality of life for children with disabilities.

Harriet Cordelia Nielsen

Harriet Cordelia Nielsen has created Askov Ridecenter's "The Unique Offer" for physically, socially and educationally challenged children. The combination of horseback riding and educational training gives the children the opportunity of participating at school on more equal terms.

Rita Žogelè

Uniq dance offers dance activities for children with special needs. These dance lessons improve posture, physical and brain condition, sensomotoric and social skills. Through these dance lesson, Unique dance not only helps children through physical exercise, but also helps them psychologically to better integrate in society, too.

Andrius Chomičius

PLAYmath is a set of games / simulations that inspires and enables everyone to learn the math curriculum of grades 1-10 by playing and creating together.

Audronė Masiukienė

Fear lab helps young people understand and overcome their fears. We provide the knowledge how to talk about the difficulties of describing the various solutions and let the young person choose the suitable one.We work with pupils, students, disadvantaged young people, youth in a social exclusion, blind children and children with other disabilities. We apply a variety of attractive and interactive methods that are suitable and interesting for each of them.

Martin Exner

Martin Exner has established the volunteer association Coding Pirates helping children to develop their IT skills and to become creators of IT instead of merely consumers.

Gülten Eminovski

Gülten Eminovski has created a toolkit for children, parents and teachers. STOPMOB helps children develop positive thoughts, feelings and behavior in order to strengthen social inclusion.

Kirsten Birk Olsen

Kirsten Birk Olsen has founded Følgeskabet (The Followship), which works with establishing strong leadership communities in the daycare centers and kindergartens. Leaders and representatives of the parents attend courses, seminars, and/or development conversations in order to create a unified and agreed upon path for the cooperation between the parents and employees, for the benefit of the children.

Johanna Valentin

Utsiktstornet uses chess as an educational tool to give children a playful opportunity to develop, both socially and intellectually.

Merete Grimeland

Gjennom digitale fortellinger laget av ungdommer og unge voksne, arbeider Merete med å formidle sterke og inspirerende historier som alle kan lære noe av.

James Kofi Annan

Through education, economic empowerment and community mobilization, Challenging Heights targets at- risk, poor families to explain the dangers of child trafficking and to address the root cause of slavery.

Linn Tornholm og Vicky Kornblit

Projekt S wishes to equate mental health with physical health. Projekt S is therefore, offered as an after school activity, where young people between the ages of 10 and 16 can strengthen their self-esteem, self-worth, health and physical strength.

Karolina Žernytė

We will create sensory toys and accessories together with sensory challenged children and their parents. We will invite them and others to join our sensory theatre workshops, developed with this group. Our vision is “Every child is proud to be UNIQUE”. We help children develop their sensory world, concentration and create links with their loved ones through the pleasure of playing.

Jacques Kayisire

Half of Rwanda’s population is under 18. This means that children and youth in Rwanda need to be supported, empowered and encouraged as they have a crucial role in the future of the country. Kayisire Jacques has developed a Football and ICT Skills Training program which helps rejuvenate the Rwandan youth, increase their self-esteem, promote peace, reconciliation and unity and inspire a joyful spirit. The program will empower children through both football and computer skills.

Violeta Masteikienė

Friends' Jam uses harvest excess to make tasty jam together with big families, sell it and create opportunity to earn extra money.

Khamrazhan Ussenov & Aikorkem Bekeyeva

Mentoring program of Children charity club helps children regardless the economic status of their parents to get the education in prestigious university.

Eimantas Bekėža

This is an online learning platform, which provides differentiated study resources for all levels of students to fully prepare for a specific subject.

Million Gezahegn

MG Greenovations PLC produces locally sourced, pre-fertilized seed strips & horizontal/vertical racks of gardening pallets to address food insecurity in high density urban centers. This innovation allows people to sustainably grow a diversity of affordable and healthy produce, using less water, and space than usually required.

Anne Stine Hole

Generasjonsmøtet M aims to provide job opportunities for youth, whilst also tending to the needs of the elderly. They offer part time jobs to youth aged 14 – 19, who in turn visit elderly at nursing homes, who often are lonely and inactive.

Gita Rajan & Hermine Holm

Wonsa is creating a world free from sexual abuse with their specialized clinic for victims, research and education.

Elin Lutke & Jailton Carneiro

Cirkus Unik combines entrepreneurship and contemporary circus to create social inclusion and opportunities for children and youth in Sweden.

Tore Neergaard Kjellow, Lars Kroll and Pelle Sølvkjær

Ugly Duckling Games provide games and teaching approaches to increase student engagement and reignite the joy of learning. Their games and teaching manuals are affordable. Their own games are tailor-made to support the teaching approach, they have developed, but the method is effective with a large selection of mainstream games.

Pelle Plesner

Pelle Plesner has established the volunteer association FitforKids providing a special weight loss program for overweight and inactive children. It brings the children energy and happiness and provides the families with excellent conditions to begin a new and healthier lifestyle.

Meelis Raiend

The Spirit of Sport / Spordivaim joins humans who are interested in helping young people to develop, both mentally and physically, through sports. The goal is to create the environment where the young person could develop freely in the way that hi/she could fulfill his/her dreams and potential as a human being.

Vladimir Kovalskiy

Vladimir Kowalski and his Extreme Sports Federation give children and teenagers an opportunity to achieve self-fulfillment through extreme sports activities.

Mads Lønnberg and Signe Gjervig

Learning Mission works for a world where children can learn freely through inspiration and guidance. They will accelerate the inevitable transformation of the school system by raising awareness of the disadvantages of traditional learning principles. Learning Mission wants t to kickstart the implementation of healthier learning environments that are relevant to children and youth in the 21st century.

Naim Zeneli

Forza Ungdom helps unaccompanied child refugees by providing them with a network of adult role models and friends of the same age.

Marko Knežević

Maritime HUB project combines heritage, sailing and social skills development to assist children growing up without parents or adequate parental care. Children from social care institutions are involved in learning and development of skills that help them achieve independence.

Yvan Bayisabe & Fredrik Mosis

VIBRO er en organisasjon som fokuserer på å engasjere og styrke ungdommer, og å oppmuntre dem til aktivt å delta i samfunnet.

AnneSofie Blixt

Tilia supports young people between 12-30 with mental illness to create hope and security, through preventive, supportive and advocacy work.

Baiba Blomniece-Jurāne

BARBOLETA has developed a wooden balance board - unique and innovative tool for interactive learning that improves children intellectual and learning abilities. Using the product increases attention, engagement and reduces stress levels for a child. As a result, children learn new study material much quicker and feel much happier about themselves, level of anxiety goes down significantly.

Inese Grīnvalde & Agita Akmentiņa-Kūliņa

By offering children and young people developmental activities in warm natural materials, we reduce the disturbances caused by long-term stress, as a result of which their development improves. (According to the experience, after 4 times, sleep and language disorders, aggression, the so-called "tici" decrease, the ability to learn, the ability to recognize one's emotions, the ability to adapt and build relationships improve).

Imad Elabdala

Kidnovation are working with practical tools to provide trauma treatment through storytelling.

Peter Ndonwie

Peter has been a persistent advocate for women and children’s rights in Ghana through his organization PAORP-VWC which promotes education in areas with discrimination against women and children. The mission is to research, organize, support, expand and strengthen the activities of human rights organizations as well as women and youth groups.

Odeta Intė

Co-parenting app “3T” for divorced parents that improves the relationship of the parents and eases the struggles of parenting while separated.

Rebecca Madhani

Mitt Livs Val offers a study-motivating program where students from universities and colleges become mentors and role models for newly arrived and unaccompanied young people.

Edvard Ljulko

Minutes of Stillness gives children tools to become more relaxed, focused, attentive, creative and self-aware by offering teachers and parents a variety of easy and practical awareness exercises, that can be used in schools, at home or other places.

Florence Adu

Florence Adu is the co-founder of LEAP Transmedia which develops educational content and programming for multimedia channels to boost the literacy and numeracy curriculum.

Sissa Pagels & Louise Lindén

Young Innovation Hub identifies and educates young leaders and role models to build hubs for young entrepreneurship and change work - locally and globally. Through social innovation and start-up methods, young role models and change agents grow through Young Innovation Hub's meetings and networks.

Madeleine Opira

Madeleine is an educated lawyer who runs the think tank A Million Minds, which work to change the image of the Stockholm’s housing projects and motivate and improve the conditions for youths living there.

Getter Toome

Many children get injured on playgrounds each year in Estonia. Many injuries that could be prevented. Getter Toome aims to reduce these injuries in an inspiring way through her developed play and tools for both children and teachers.

Catharina Richter & Monica Nanni

Randiga Huset supports grieving children and their families, and strive to raise community awareness about children in mourning.

Mohammed S. Tahir & Marie-Eve Lemieux

Through basketball, life skills training and a mentoring programme, Marie-Eve and Mohammed's social enterprise encourages children from deprived communities to become agents of change.

Eglė Jokužytė

Eglė creates and produces books combining Braille and usual symbols to induce blind children's literacy and remove social barriers.

Jenny Lindström Beijar

Our Normal works for a more inclusive society by offering a digital platform for children with disabilities and their families to prevent exclusion and provide support. Our Normal also aims to raise public awareness for the development of more inclusive activities as well as destinations.

Nina & Vladimir Nikiforovi

Nina and Vladimir Nikiforovi set an example and teach kids and teenagers to make this world cleaner and pollution-free, perceiving the art of ecology.

Reda Rukene

“Give kids a voice” is a digital platform that allows children to recognize, evaluate and report the internet content that they use.

Boyan Simeonov & Vasil Spasov

RockSchool is developing an educational music program adapted for visually impaired children and youngsters. It will give them the chance to develop, gain confidence and become a part of a community of young developing artists in Bulgaria.

Svetlana Smurigina & Natalya Rumyantseva

Svetlana and Natalia from Yaroslavl' create special performance in their Inclusive Horse Theatre where children with disabilities act together with other children and horses.