Sustainable development goals were born as a result of the challenges facing the world. The pledge is to leave no one behind but also to reach the furthest behind first. Brace-Up the Young saw the need to celebrate and encourage selfless youths working tirelessly to accomplish SDG goals in Nigeria.

SDGs Youth Advocate Fellowship Cohort II is an initiative of Brace-Up The Young that selects and empowers young social entrepreneurs impacting their communities positively and actualizing the SDGs locally by training and developing their skills with globally accepted 21st-century skills that cut across all industry sectors.

Selected SYA Cohort II fellows will undergo a two-week virtual training that empowers them with skills, knowledge, and structure about their organization, how it can be appropriately aligned with the SDGs, and sought to address community organizations’ sustainability problem of youth-led enterprises.

Benefits:

Selected candidates for the SYA 2.0 fellowship will have the following benefits:

1. Two weeks of virtual training on social entrepreneurship and grant writing.
2. Training data support.
3. Access to partner with Brace-up The Young and our partners for one of your project
4. Alumni program membership.
5. 1-month post-training project support in 2022.

Who can apply:

Applicants must be:

1. Founders / Co-founders of NGO, CSO or CBO working around the 17 SDGs in Nigeria.
2. Below 35 years old.
3. Have good knowledge of video-conferencing applications.
4. Willing to attend all the virtual training sessions for two weeks.
5. A citizen OF Nigeria.
6. Training is in the English Language – can read and speak in English.
7. Have access to the internet, computer, laptop or mobile device to connect to the online training program.

The application opens on October 1st, 2021.

The application close on October 20, 2021.

Selected Applicants Notification: November 2021.

Fellowship Starts in November 2021.

How to apply:  Click here to apply.

Meet our SDGs Youth Advocate Fellows, Cohort 2

We are excited to announce and unveil 20 young change-makers across the world working to create positive change in their communities and actualize the SDGs locally. They will be embarking on two weeks of virtual BootCamp that will equip them with skills, knowledge and network to scale their impacts. SYA fellows also have an opportunity to pitch their organizations and three fellows will be awarded free website design for their organization, proudly sponsored by Freeweb4SDGs.com

Our SDGs Youth Advocate Fellows, Cohort 2 are:

1. Olajuyin Olaleye
2. Samuel Adebayo
3. Maria Alejandra Menaldo
4. Sadisu Y Ibrahim
5. Ibitomi Ibiwunmi
6.  Adebimpe Bukola
7. Peter Aloya
8. Olateju Akinpelu
9. Fila Mathew
10. Shallom Ernest
11. Busolami Adesanya
12. Munachi Okoli
13. Solabi Olajumoke Omoteniola
14. Chidubem Nweke
15. Victoria Edeha-Anthony
16. Adeboye Joseph Oluwadamilare
17. Adebowale Ayoola
18. Adekunle Racheal Adetomi
19. Adepoju Adeola Deborah
20. Esther Akintola

20 Young social entrepreneurs from Nigeria and Argentina were trained to actualise the SDGs locally and scale their impacts. #SYAcohort2 virtual Boot camp ended with Fellows pitching their projects, and the top three winners of our pitch competition are

1. Solabi Olajumoke, Founder, @foamfoundation
2. Munachi Okoli, Founder @codelearnng
3. Ibitomi Otunola, Coordinator, Ile-iwe project

Thanks to the support of our partners @FreeWeb4SDGs all 3 winners will be receiving individual organisation websites to scale their organisation at no cost.

2021 Impact Story

2021 was a great year for the communities we support.

In 2021, we provided access to quality education directly to over 1,055 children in slums and low-income communities in 7 States in Nigeria through our #BTYSchoolTour, #BTYback2school, Makoko outreach and #BTYcos community of schools project. Also, we provided material support to 40 women and nursing mothers.

In executing all the above projects, we trained and engaged directly 47 youths with life skills and gave them a platform to express their skills.

We couldn’t have done this without you, our partners, donors, sponsors, funders, well-wishers who supported us in raising $2,641 to support access to quality education in slums and low-income communities.

We appreciate your support and thank you for making 2021 a great success.

Let’s do more in 2022.