Meet the Fellows

Adolphina Wilson

Project: Africentric Picnic Basket Project

Toronto, ON

Food & Health

The Africentric Picnic Basket Project is a Community Event featuring content creation, network-building opportunities, and skills-sharing workshops for youth parents and families from the GTHA community including seniors, at-risk youth, persons with disabiliti...

Aimee Yurris

Project: Youth & Elder Cooking Classes

Yellowknife, NT

Food & Health

My project included three main activities: Kitchen Talks, Apron Sewing Workshop, and Community Cookbook. I partnered with several local youth-serving organizations including Home Base YK, the Tree of Peace Friendship Centre, Communities Building Youth Futures...

Zara Uddin

Project: South Asian Women's Health Association (SAWHA)

Markham, ON

Food & Health

South Asian Women's Health Association (SAWHA) is dedicated to empower middle-aged South Asian immigrant women to prioritize their health and wellbeing.

Yoonho Kang

Project: Stepping Over the West End

Vancouver, BC

Stepping Over the West End aims to share experiences of working with vulnerable populations in the Downtown Eastside with youth in schools. It is important to spread awareness about the systemic causes of issues in Vancouver such as houselessness and drug addi...

Aaliyah Mahboubi

Project: SPARK9

Vancouver, BC

Education

The SPARK9 Project was a series of nine initiatives that brought youth together between June and November 2023 in the spirit of service. Each project connected to a UN sustainable development goal and allowed us to focus on a particular theme. Our first projec...

Yeganeh Rasouli

Project: The Health Empowerment Initiative

Windsor, ON

The Health Empowerment Initiative began by distributing care packages containing PPE and essential items to the clients of the Downtown Mission in Windsor, Ontario, during the COVID-19 pandemic. While delivering these packages, it became evident that the clien...

Yi-Fan Ada Wang

Project: DAWN Against Trafficking – Eradicating Human Trafficking Through Empowerment and Education.

Etobicoke, ON

Founded in 2021, DAWN Against Trafficking (formerly Future Unchained Toronto) is the largest Torotonian youth-led non-profit dedicated to combating human trafficking. At DAWN, we believe that empathy and education are the key to empowering survivors and elimin...

Yolanda Ding

Project: Sweet Spring Cares

Scarborough, ON

Education

Sweet Spring Cares is a care package program that provides resources to elementary school students and their families in lower-income communities in Scarborough. These packages include stationery items, empowering prompts/activities, and more. The intention is...

Vedanshi Vala

Project: The Rural Safety Network by BOLT Safety Society

Richmond, BC

Housing & Safety

The Rural Safety Network by BOLT Safety Society is a multi-faceted endeavor to grow the organization's existing programming in urban communities to more rural and remote areas of British Columbia in an effort to combat sexual violence. This will include expand...