ONE Champions Mercy and Juliet share insights from their participation in the Hamburg Sustainability Conference in Germany
This October, ONE Champions Juliet Nwobodo (Nigeria) and Mercy Mutana (Kenya) joined ONE Youth Ambassadors at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference in Germany. They engaged participants on the need for global finance reforms and empowerment of youth voices on SDGs. Here is a snapshot of their experience.
What was the Hamburg Sustainability Conference all about?
Juliet: The Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC) is basically a gathering of...
Afrikana Njuru
Earlier this month, seven ONE Champions and one ONE staff member attended the YouLead Africa Summit in Arusha, Tanzania, where they discussed the future of the continent and the importance of youth representation.
The YouLead Summit is an annual forum of young leaders, mentors, government policymakers, civil society, and other partners from all over Africa to craft responses to the continent’s rapidly growing youth population, their challenges, and opportunities.
Happening since 2017, the forum is the highlight event to the Youth...
The first case of COVID-19 in Kenya was announced in February 2020. After that, an announcement was made on 15 March 2020 that all learning institutions were to be closed to contain the spread of the virus. Physical learning resumed on 4 January 2021. As a result, the school calendar was considered lost, affecting over 18 million students across the country. In Kenya, many aspects of society and the education sector have been dramatically affected.
Before the pandemic, Africa had...