Success Stories

Youth Time Inspirational stories

As these success stories show, YTIM’s positive influence isn’t restricted to just those who attend our events, but leads to helping, inspiring and provides further opportunities to thousands of youth across the world. As an NGO we rely heavily on the generous and loyal contributions from all partners, sponsors, speakers, participants, and volunteers to be able to remain a critical influence and we value all in the highest regard. The more support we get, the more youth we can inspire to make a positive impact to the world and their communities.

Anza Tshipetane & Nnditsheni Netshimbupfe

Youth Time Idea Grant winner 2019

The Bright Young Leaders Initiative is a registered non-profit organisation founded for the purpose of empowering young people in STEM and social entrepreneurship. We provide programs that equip young people with skills and strategies to help them invent, innovate and inspire other youth people to bring about sustainable development in the African continent.

Shinelle Bayrd

Youth Time Idea Grant winner 2018

The Wellness Center initiative targeted on improvement of the overall physical,
mental, spiritual, and emotional wellbeing of people in Guyana, the country with the highest suicide rate among youth in the world. Now they organize Social Media campaigns, Awareness activities, Alternative Therapy Sessions, different Support Groups and several trainings.

Aurelia Abena Attipoe

Youth Time Idea Grant winner 2017

The Pitch Hub helps to equip the unemployed youth with skills for their entrepreneurial ventures. In Ghana, almost 50% of young people under 25 years old are unemployed. In one year, the Hub organized 25 training sessions, educated 320 trainees, started 15 partnerships and raised for business $10,000. Since winning the Idea Grant the Pitch Hub has gone on to train over 1000 people, many of which have gone on to start their own businesses, creating further job opportunities for people.

Olga Lakhnova

Youth Time Idea Grant winner 2016

Senior to Junior project aimed to improve two important social issues, isolation of elderly people and education of children and youth. Therefore, Olga created a social club in Moscow where local retirees were able to use their knowledge for good by educating children and youth through one-on-one instruction or in “classes” consisting of small groups. This helped elderly people to fight isolation and at the same time gave children the opportunity to obtain additional education for free.

Swekshya Neupane

Youth Time Idea Grant winner 2015

Youth Time Global Forum 2015 has been wrapped up. Over the course of three days, lots of interesting discussions and gatherings occurred. People from all around the world participated and exchanged ideas, but the main attraction of the forum was the projects competition. 16 youth initiatives “batteld” for the main prize of the forum – a realization grant. And the winner was fabulous Swekshya Neupane from Nepal thanks to her very important social project “Health for female community leaders“. Swekshya is planning to launch a six-month-long educational project for 200 hundred women in Nepalese rural areas. Read more about this project here

Prakhar Bhartiya

Rhodes Youth Forum winner 2014

Youth Alliance with more focus, it has two flagship programmes: Gramya Manthan is a nine-day residential programme to sensitise urban youth about rural India through village immersion and on-ground action in Kanpur Dehat, and the second programme is called ONUS. It is a year-long transformation journey designed for college students to enable them to go on an exploratory journey to discover their leadership and entrepreneurial skills. YA organises several workshops on design thinking, resource mobilisation, effective communication etc., as skill-building exercises. ONUS Fellows work on community projects aimed at solving a certain problem.

Taulant Hoxha

Rhodes Youth Forum winner 2012

Eventor Hub supported unprivileged young people, who have no support to get an education, or to start socially driven ventures. Co-working space was created with the aim of providing to students and youth needed information for different opportunities all over the world, organizing change-making events, educational activities and start-up & career consulting and advisory. Read more about this project here

Rakesh Biswas

Rhodes Youth Forum winner 2012

Chairman of IYSERT Energy Research PVT LTD. Rakesh is also the founder of International Youth Society of Eco friendly & Renewable Technology. He has expanded his organisation across 8 countries and conducts extensive volunteer work across the world. Being a strong personality in South Asia, his Company IYSERT listed in the top 50 Companies by CNBC Asian Business Leadership Awards 2017,Shanghai for Turnover more than 100 Million INR in 2 years. He was awarded the International Business leadership Award in 2017 by Institute of Economics Studies Malaysia and also received the Karamaveer Chakhra Award from the United Nations in addition to the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Rastiya Ekta Samman in 2014 from the Government of India.