Covid-19 Youth Platform
This platform aims to give visibility to youth initiatives responding to COVID-19 and to the health, social, and economic consequences of the pandemic.
Each of the organizations below are fighting Covid-19. They are from different countries around the world, helping their local communities with medical assistance, food distribution, arts programs, education initiatives, technology solutions and more.
All of these initiatives could use your support, whether it is with funding, technical expertise, knowledge sharing, promotion or volunteering. Browse below to learn more about each program.
To be featured, your initiative must:
be youth-led, with at least half the leadership positions being held by people who are 31 or younger, OR strongly youth or children-focused, with its project focusing on people who are 31 or younger;
AND be acting in response to the COVID outbreak or its consequences, whether raising awareness about prevention, supporting vulnerable populations during the economic stop-down, supporting mental health, etc.
there are no other requirements for the initiative to be formal, or of any particular structure. Everyone from informal initiatives to long-staring NGOs are welcome to apply.
Just fill in the form, available in ENGLISH, SPANISH, FRENCH, RUSSIAN or ARABIC! and please help us share it widely to your networks and social media.
For more information or to connect with an organization featured below contact youthactionplatform@unmgcy.org.
Before the discovery of the first case of Covid 19 in Chad, HOUSE OF AFRICA launched an initiative called "Citizen Initiative for Awareness and Prevention against Coronavirus in Chad" by disseminating videos in local languages and spreading these via social networks and especially WhatsApp to the target community.
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Our initiative is focused on prevention of the spread of Covid 19 through the distribution of masks, soap and hand washing devices, but also through digital communication and community awareness in Burkina Faso.
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In response to the rapid spread of the pandemic and its consequences, the African Union Youth Envoy embarked on a youth consultation to seek the views of the youth on the pandemic.
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Working to change negative perceptions and misinformation about a potential Covid-19 vaccine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Using communication strategies to support youth.
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HUMANUS is a humanitarian organization whose mission is to rescue the needy, including widows, young girls and abandoned and orphaned children.
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This project seeks to counter Fake News on social media. To achieve this, the Fake News Task Force relies on a team of volunteers consisting of trackers, analysts, graphic designers, translators and broadcasters.
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Fabrication du gel hydroalcoolique et du savon liquide et sensibilisation en langue sur le COVID19.
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Sensibilisation et Don des matériels Sanitaires dans les Orphelinats de Guinée.
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Through this initiative, some youths have embarked on local production of face masks in Senegal for vulnerable groups, which shall be given away for free.
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Sensibiliser, informer et éduquer les populations sur la lutte contre le COVID-19, apporter l'assistance aux nécessiteux, faire des propositions aux décideurs.
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