G(irls)20 Summit Initiatives
One of the most important aspects of the G(irls)20 Summit is to invest in the delegates in a way that encourages them to return to their community / country and find a way to economically empower girls and women at home. With new skills from their workshop experiences we are cultivating these leaders to find a platform for their own advancement and the advancement of others. This map shows how G(irls)20 Summit Ambassadors have used their Summit related experiences and designed their own initiatives or aided in the work of others.
Place your cursor over a G20 country, click and see what are delegates are doing to empower others.
Veronica Cho
South Korea Delegate 2012
Presidential Girl
Veronica is the Founder and Director of Presidential Girl, a social profit organization unleashing the incredible potential adolescent girls have of transforming societies and affecting positive change. We hope to challenge harmful social and gender norms by presenting girls as a force to be valued, respected, and listened to. Presidential Girl empowers girls living in poverty and oppression to become advocates of the change they want to see in their communities. We create a space where girls are equipped with the knowledge, tools, mentorship and resources they need to become the next generation of women leaders.
Igniting the world with a league of extraordinary girls - that is what this work is about. Change begins with the girl who believes in the power of her voice. Change begins with the girl who believes she is presidential.
For more information please contact Veronica at [email protected]
http://www.about.me/veronicacho
Harriet Jones
UK Delegate 2011
Since attending the 2011 G(irls)20 Summit in France, Harriet has been focusing on completing her undergraduate studies in Chemistry at Durham University. At university Harriet participates in the debating society and was captain of her school’s netball team. After completing her studies she plans on travelling to South America to learn Spanish.
For more information please contact Harriet [email protected]
Soo Hyun Kim
South Korea Delegate 2011
Relaxed Access
In Paris at the G(irls)20 Summit 2011, Soo Hyun was inspired by many women who work towards women’s empowerment, especially by those who make use of blogs and writing to make their voices be heard. Being fond of writing herself, Soo Hyun decided to get involved in her school’s magazine and became one of the executives as well as editors who focus on topics regarding women, such as women’s education and women’s political involvement. Also, Soo Hyun is currently working on launching a not-for-profit initiative that intends to bring a relaxed environment that allows adolescent girls to increase their access and control of technology, develop their hidden confidence through sports and crafts, and join in discussions within themselves to further develop.
For more information please contact Soo Hyun at [email protected]
Morgane Richer La Fleche
Canada, 2013 Delegate
After-School Coding
Since the 2013 Summit, Morgane has embarked on the creation of an after-school computer-coding program. This initiative will target elementary and middle-school aged children in the University of Chicago area. Morgane intends to recruit student volunteers in the computer science department of the University of Chicago.
The goal of the program is to give children early exposure to the fast growing tech sector, and equip them with the invaluable computer programming skills that are redefining literacy in the 21st century.
Morgane’s project is in its initial stages: she will spend the next few months engaging with experts, designing the curriculum, and gathering supporters for the program. This program is projected to launch in the spring of 2014.
Raquel Helen Santos Silva
Brazil Delegate 2011
Since the G(irls)20 Summit in Paris 2011, Raquel has participated in the not governmental organization React & Change. Since joining the organization, they have won the World Summit Youth Award under the category ‘Power to Women’, recognized by the United Nations as one of the best youth projects in the world using internet as a platform for social change. They have also established partnerships with the United States Department of State, British Council and SuperSocial, fundraising approximately 18,000 reais.
Raquel in May 2012 was a speaker in TEDx talk in Belo Horizonte (in Portuguese), her hometown and third biggest city in Brazil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6YUlxoLxRo
Requal also was featured in the GoGirlGlobal blog and reached a record of accesses:
http://gogirlglobal.com/GO_GIRL_global/Blog/Entries/2012/3/27_Meet_Raquel_from_Brazil.html
Carolina López Capo
Argentina Delegate 2011
After attending the G(irls)20 Summit in France, Carolina worked as a volunteer for Fundacion Cimientos (http://www.cimientos.org/), an Argentine non-profit organization founded in 1997 that promotes equal educational opportunities for children and youth from low income families in Argentina. She was assigned to the Communications and Events Department, where she collaborated different tasks concerning the organization’s Yearbook and its Annual Fundraising dinner.
In mid 2012, she was a research assistant for the producers, Nuria Becú and Catalina López Imizcoz. Their film was an Argentine documentary “Breves entrevistas sobre feminismo” (Brief interviews on feminism). “Breves entrevistas sobre feminismo” is a reflexive experiment that shows how a group of people from different ages and socioeconomic status change their opinions about women’s situations in Argentina. It highlights the importance of the individual’s role to change unjust situations, promoting reflection and the identification of the many things we have in common with others. The ultimate goal is to raise awareness on gender inequality and deactivate certain preconceptions.
The documentary was produced thanks to the help of Ideame’s crowdfunding power and with the support of Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género (ELA) and Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas (CIEPP). It was later supported by UN Women and declared of interest for the city of Buenos Aires, for the promotion of human rights.
Carolina was also selected to participate in the South American Business Forum in August 2012 and in the Students’ Management International Conference in October 2012, both business-oriented conferences held in Buenos Aires that united young people from different fields and from all over the world.
Kartika Nurhayati
Indonesia, 2010 Delegate
The BookMob Library
In 2010, Kartika returned to her community in Indonesia after the 2010 G(irls)20 Summit inspired to change the world around her for the better. She saw a need for access to education, and worked to build a library for underprivileged children. This was not any ordinary library, as it is difficult to find space accessible to all that need it in the suburbs of Jakarta. Kartika and the other volunteers had a bus donated, which they proceeded to rip out the seats, and turn into a mobile library servicing those that needed it the most - the children in the slums of Indonesia. The BookMob library, as they fondly refer to it, still operates with the help of the Nurul Qolbu Foundation and volunteers, many of whom are teachers and university students.
For more information about the Book Mob please contact [email protected]
Chloe Yin Yin Lo
China, Delegate 2011
Since her participation in the 2011 G(irls)20 Summit in France, Chloe became a UNESCO Youth Peace Ambassador in Training, going on to organize many activities in Taiwan.
In 2013, Chloe was appointed 1 of 16 Youth Advisors to the Minister of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan). It is the first time that youths were appointed as Advisers to the Minister. They are called “The Youth Advisory Committee” of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Her duties include giving advice to the minister on issues affecting youth in the Republic of China, as well as gathering information on democracy issues and international issues, but not limited to these subjects.
Riana Shah
India, 2011 Delegate
Independent Thought & Social Action International
In 2011, after attending the G(irls)20 Summit in France, Riana launched the Independent Thought & Social Action International (ITSA), a youth led, education reform organization that creates socially responsible young leaders through critical thinking and social action. The organization leads workshops for high school students that hone critical thinking by encouraging debate and discussion on contemporary social issues. Workshop participants initiate and sustain social action projects in their local communities, and these projects are fully supported by ITSA at every stage—from design to implementation to reflection.
In 2012, Riana launched a workshop series that will focus on educating students on gender issues such as modern-day slavery, domestic violence, child marriage, and human trafficking and empowering them to take action is currently in development. Riana is supported by the G(irls)20 Summit Ambassador Action Fund Powered by Google (GAAF).
To learn more please visit, www.ITSAInternational.org
Tanvi Girota
India, 2010 Delegate
Becoming I Foundation
In 2010, Tanvi left the G(irls)20 Summit to start an initiative of her own.
Today, Tanvi is the President of the Becoming I Foundation, which provides girls in low-income classrooms with access to computers through Project En Route. Project En Route creates an innovative and creative curriculum in tandem with their daily course work, so that education becomes fun, wholesome and worth coming to school for. The curriculum includes; social entrepreneurship, social justice, female health, etc.
The secondary aim of Project En Route is to create awareness among the girls about issues and problems around the world which they themselves might be facing at home but because of the way Indian society is conditioned, can’t openly discuss and talk about it let alone search for any form of refuge. With the use of social media to create an international platform, girls can interact with girls in other countries and communities and build networks and self-help groups across borders.
Tanvi received one-time funding through the G(irls)20 Summit Ambassador Action Fund (GAFF) Powered by Google in 2012 to support her initiative.
For more information please contact: [email protected] or call +91 9811954924
Lilian Kithiri
African Union, 2011 Delegate
Health Awareness for Rural Kenya’s Youth
After attending the 2011 G(irls)20 Summit in France, Lilian developed an initiative that aims to enhance health information in the rural communities of Kenya. She has worked diligently with medical students, medical professionals and volunteers, to implement a reproductive health awareness program for rural Kenyan girls. The program ensures the girls are provided with information on family planning, nutrition when pregnant and maternal health care information.
Lilian is supported by the G(irls)20 Summit Ambassador Action Fund Powered by Google (GAAF). The fund assists her in recruiting additional volunteers to disseminate the program utilizing social media like YouTube and travelling to high schools and community based centers.
For more information please contact [email protected]
Anna Malinovskaya
Russia, 2010 Delegate
Mentorship for Young Women
Anna has partnered with Ekaterina Mordvinova, Russia’s 2011 G(irls)20 Summit delegate to establish an NGO in Russia which will operate a mentorship program for young women.
Anna Malinovskaya used her interest in public policy & governance in developing countries to complete a research project on the quality of governance in Nepal, and is applying to various conferences to present her work.
Recently, Anna was selected by the United Nations Population Fund to attend Global Youth Forum in Indonesia in December 2013. This conference is held by the UNFPA with the purpose of giving youth the voice in the upcoming UN Conference of Population and Development.
https://sites.google.com/site/resourcesforstudentsintdev/
Ekaterina Mordvinova
Russia, 2011 Delegate
Mentorship for Young Women
In 2012, post-participation in the 2011 G(irls)20 Summit in France, Ekaterina organized Samara, Russia’s First Women Leadership Forum. It brought together different women leaders both from non-governmental and governmental structures and created a free space for interaction, cooperation and collaboration. It was followed by round-tables on gender issues, trainings at my university together with the Center on Gender Research.
Ekaterina continues to work towards leading a young-women-led organization in Samara and leading projects to benefit her community. She currently works for an NGO Youth Theater “Light” to organize and coordinate Spring School “Young Leaders” for high school and first-year students. The aim of the school is to equip young people who are entering the university and freshmen with essential time-management skills, project management skills, and public speech and computer skills. Edutainment (education through entertainment), peer-to-peer education, working with target groups and using art-theater technologies gives students the confidence they need to become leaders.
Glender Favour
African Union, 2012 Delegate
StopAIDS, Cameroon
In 2012, Glender returned home from the G(irls)20 Summit and organized a workshop for girls and women in her rural hometown to share what she had learned throughout the Summit. Since then, Glender has co-founded StopAIDS, Cameroon, an initiative with the mission to empower young leaders with skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers.
In 2012, Glender was approved for funding by the G(irls)20 Summit Ambassador Action Fund Powered by Google (GAAF) for one of her programs under the StopAIDS initiative, called, “Celebrating Women in Science and Technology in NW Cameroon”. The program focuses on encouraging more girls and women to consider the field of technology, media, agriculture and business by featuring local women who have succeeded in science and technology. It will reveal individual achievements of these girls through spotlight articles and interviews and solicit these women to volunteer mentorship to girls who graduate out of high school and wish to pursue science-oriented careers.
For more information please contact Glender at: [email protected] or +237 766 187 19
Alberta Pelino
Italy, 2010 Delegate
Young Ambassadors Society
Since 2010, after Alberta attended the G(irls)20 Summit in Canada, she was inspired to take on two projects promoted by the European Commission; one in Portugal with the purpose of fighting poverty; and one in Slovenia, to combat social exclusion and promote active citizenship. She has attended a training course to learn to organize youth exchanges and promote intercultural learning and dialogue.
In 2011, she founded the Young Ambassadors Society to promote dialogue among young people, cross-cultural understanding, give a voice to young people in politics and international issues and bridge the gap between young people and institutions.
Most recently, Alberta has also been chosen to be part of the jury of the “What’s Up” youth Award, the youth award of the “Minerva Award”, dedicated to Italian women who are making a difference in Italy and in the world. She has also been selected to be part of the Global Shapers Community of the World Economic Forum.
For more information, please visit www.youngambassadorsociety.org
Nomathemba Charmaine Sibanyoni
South Africa, 2010 Delegate
Since 2010, Nomathemba has volunteered with one goal in mind – improving the lives of the youth around her.
She has volunteered for the Zivuseni Youth and Advice Centre, Ndlelehle Youth Centre, and is an active member of SEISPRO. SEISPRO goes into local schools and provides youth with career advice and guidance with university applications.
Nomathemba is a strong believer in access to education, and continues to advocate for it.
Jane Harris
Australia, 2010 Delegate
Community Workshops
Since 2010, Jane has worked with girls and young women at both a grassroots and national policy level. She has run several workshops within her community based on the principles learned at the G(irls) 20 Summit.
Jane also worked with Australia’s Girl Guide program to train their leaders as part of the Dove Workshop for Self Esteem. To date, this program and Jane’s work have reached up to 8,000 girls and young women.
In 2012, Jane represented the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts by attending the United Nations Conference on Sustainability Rio+20 in Brazil. She co-presented an event at this conference on engaging young people in sustainability projects. As part of the formal UN proceedings, she and her colleagues were able to convince governments to include non-formal education in the final outcome document as a priority for sustainable development.
Tomoko Kaida
Japan, 2012 Delegate
Kanazawa Centre for Strategic Communications
In 2010, Tomoko co-launched a non-for-profit initiative called the Kanazawa Centre for Strategic Communications, which aims to provide direct cultural assistance and promote understanding between the Japanese and the increasing number of foreign nationals that are staying in Japan for educational and business purposes.
Since the 2012 G(irls)20 Summit, Tomoko has gone back to Japan and worked to expand the Kanazawa Centre for Strategic Communications based on the learnings she took from the Summit.
In 2012, Tomoko gained a TED license and became the executive producer, of an independent TEDEx event on environmental sustainability and co-existence.
Today, she is participating in a research project commissioned by the City of Kanazawa and serves as a G(irls)20 Summit Ambassador in Japan.
Sally Dimachki
France, 2012 Delegate
In 2012, Sally returned from the G(irls)20 Summit with the motivation to combat and bring awareness to the human rights violations taking place around the world. While studying at the University of Ottawa in Canada, Sally worked with student associations, such as UNICEF and the Children’s Treatment Centre of Ottawa, to do just that.
Sally has chosen to further her education and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Genocide Studies at Kingston University of London, England. She also had the chance to be enrolled in a summer program at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, where she will learn more about Public International Law. Her goals for the future include working with refugees and women’s rights, especially those of young girls.
Lucila San Martin
Argentina, 2012 Delegate
Promoting Critical Thinking
After the G(irls)20 Summit in Mexico, Lucila began developing a website that promoted tools and workshops to promote critical thinking. She has built an impressive network of accomplished individuals that support her project, including the renowned Argentinian economist Juan Carlos de Pablo.
Lucila was also selected to participate in the British Council’s Global Changemakers’ Global Youth Summit in December 2012, where she met with 60 youth leaders from all over the globe and was trained in education among other things.
Thais Moraes
Brazil, 2010 Delegate
In 2010, after attending the G(irls)20 Summit Thais made it her mission to see more of the world. She also decided to focus women’s rights and activism which has influenced her studies greatly. While in university, she focused her research on Abortion Law and Maternal Mortality in Brazil.
Thais also writes as a correspondent for two citizen journalism organizations focused on human rights and gender equality: World Pulse www.worldpulse.com and Global Press Institute www.globalpressinstitute.org.
Disty Winata
Indonesia, 2012 Delegate
For the majority of her young life, Disty Winata has been interested in the G20 affairs in Indonesia.
In 2012, after the G(irls) 20 Summit in Mexico City, she left to Washington D.C. for G20 Youth Summit, where she led the Indonesian delegation there and represented Indonesia for the G20 Youth Network annual meeting.
That same year, Disty also organized a TEDx event at her university to bring awareness to international and local issues affecting the young people of Indonesia. In 2013, Disty will be the co-Project Manager of TEDxSFU. www.tedxsfu.org
In 2012, Disty was also offered the opportunity to become a speaker at Indonesian Youth Conference; she spoke at the largest session about diplomacy and the role of Indonesian youth at high-level events. A recap is featured on British Council’s Global Changemakers website (http://www.global-changemakers.net/education/speaking-at-indonesian-youth-conference-about-global-changemakers)
Disty completed an internship with Indonesia’s largest non-profit organization Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa (YCAB) Foundation as health promotion intern. Through this internship she had the opportunity to work on various HIV & AIDS awareness programs.
Most recently, Disty had a meeting with Google at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA as a Google Zeitgeist Young Minds Winner and Ambassador and is currently developing her ideas to move ahead.
Priyanka Roychoudhury
India, 2012 Delegate
Inspired by the 2012 Summit in Mexico City, Priyanka decided to work towards the education of underprivileged children. She was elected for a position within her college chapter of the Union of the National Service Scheme (NSS) chapter, where she remains the Project Coordinator of the NSS Union. In this role, she manages approximately 700 volunteers, working in 20 NGOs in the city of Delhi. These NGOs support a range of sectors, from teaching, special needs to animal shelters. Priyanka organizes a number of campus activities like teaching workshops and guest lectures for the growth and development of the volunteers to use their potential in social service to the fullest.
Furthermore, Priyanka has taken further initiative on helping to empower girls and women and is the Campus ambassador at her college for Care India under the Power to Empower (P2E) initiative. Care India empowers poor women and girls across India from disadvantaged communities, so they can lift themselves out of extreme poverty.
Linda Ma
Australia, 2013 Delegate
ANU Circle for Gender Equity
After the 2013 G(irls) 20 Summit, Linda was inspired to register a new club at her University called ANU Circle for Gender Equity. This club will host speakers’ and panelists to discuss issues that women face in developing nations, namely lack of economic opportunity, violence against women, and lack of access to education and affordable health services.
Along with this, Linda is currently working with the high school she attended to plan workshops and mentoring initiatives. Her first workshop will revolve around the issues she learned about at the G(irls)20 Summit, for the Women’s Collective at North Sydney Girls High School. Following her first workshop, she will conduct another where graduated students from the school will return and share inspiring stories with current students.
Putri Agustina Indonesia
Indonesia, 2013 Delegate
Putri is currently volunteer teaching underprivileged youth for the International Humanity Foundation and is beginning to train to be a teacher for vocational schools.
While doing that, she hopes to create a mentorship program regarding development of young women, especially girls in school. This mentorship will discuss the importance of education, careers, and the eradication of child marriage, based on the insights she gained from the G(irls) 20 Summit.
Isabella Rossi
Italy, 2013 Delegate
Since returning to Italy after the G(irls) 20 Summit, Isabella has continued to write for an Italian blog. On this blog Isabella wrote an article about the G(irls)20 Summit, and her excitement to take part in something so special.
Originally, the blog was only published in Italian, but Isabella pushed for an English version of the blog to be created because she believed the content of her article and others were valuable for the world to see.
For more information, please visit the Italian blog at www.isignoridellemosche.it, or the English version (which is currently still being perfected) at lordsofflies.com
Sofia Isadora Padilla Muñoz
Mexico, 2013 Delegate
Since her arrival back to Mexico from the G(irls) 20 Summit in Moscow, Sofía is a volunteer professor at Prepanet. Prepanet is an online high school, meant for single mothers, young women, young men, and for adults.
Prepanet is much less expensive to attend than any other secondary school, which Sofía believes is one of the main attractions to many of the young women who are enrolled. Sofía believes that Prepanet can change the lives of these students, because in Mexico it is crucial to finish high school if you hope to have your own career.
For more information, please visit http://sitios.itesm.mx/prepanet/
Jenni Lee
United States, 2013 Delegate
After the 2013 G(irls)20 Summit in Russia, Jenni is travelling around China, Thailand, and India to work on projects related to orphanages in China and social entrepreneurship in India.
She continues to work in a small tech start-up called Isbel, which encourages women to talk about sex and sensuality in an online community.
Jenni continues to work on her own start-up and she is a columnist for a new & innovative adoptee-centric magazine, Land of Gazillion Adoptees.
For more information, please visit http://www.isbel.com and http://landofgazillionadoptees.com/.
Lara Ezequiel
Brazil, 2013 Delegate
Since the G(irls)20 Summit in Russia, Lara has become a member of the Articulation of Young Protagonists. The Articulation of Young Protagonists is a youth organization that guides youth and young people, with hopes to increase their engagement in social work, political participation, using sports as social inclusion, any many other topics related to youth participation. To learn more, visit http://
Barbara Cesar
Brazil, 2012 Delegate
Since her participation in the 2012 G(irls)20 Summit in Mexico, Barbara has continued her work with young entrepreneurs as she works with Junior Achievement where she educates Brazil’s youth on entrepreneurial skills. She has also become an Ambassador for the Changing Lives Campaign, which aims to reach out to 100,000 people by August 2013.
Barbara developed many skills in Mexico City such as public speaking, confidence, and teamwork as well as a greater global perspective. Now, while she and her team brainstorm solutions for issues such as education in Brazil, she is able to draw from the solutions to world issues she had learned about at the G(irls)20 Summit and apply them to her own initiatives.
Barbara has been studying in the UK on an exchange but plans to continue her work as an entrepreneurship mentor.
Frederica Turner
Italy, 2011 Delegate
Since 2011, Federica has been keeping busy with volunteering and participating in international conferences. After leaving the 2011 G(irls)20 Summit in Paris she began volunteering in York, the United Kingdom with the Tea & Coffee Club at University of York, where she spends time with the elderly.
In July 2012 volunteered with Emergency, an Italian NGO that provides medical care and supplies to war-torn countries. She has also been working with other aid programs such as ActionAid. Federica has also organized the first two Model United Nations conferences held by the University of York, YorkMUN 2011 and YorkMUN 2012.
Federica began an internship with the European Parliament in September 2012 in the Special Committee for Organized Crime, Corruption, and Money Laundering. She aspires to attain a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action but until then she is currently studying at the University of York.
Kefei Wu
China, 2012 Delegate
Since 2012, Kefei has remained involved with politics, specifically regarding the environment. During her last year of high school, Kefei participated in the TUNZA International Youth Conference on the Environment, and then went of to work for Tunza Magazine, the United Nations Environment Programme magazine for youth.
She believes that the most important thing she had learned from the G(irls)20 Summit was how to effectively use social media. Kefei is responsible for the Weibo G(irls)20 Summit account and also uses social media to promote environmental protection and activism while education people on environmental issues as well.
In June 2013, Kefei represented China’s Minister of Energy and Climate Change in London at the Youth 8 Summit.
Thato Zoe Mokoena
South Africa, 2012 Delegate
Presidential Girl
Since 2012, Thato has partnered with the 2012 G(irls)20 Summit South Korean Delegate, Veronica Cho, in founding an initiative called Presidential Girl. Presidential Girl provides a platform for young girls who are disadvantaged to become socially and politically inclined as it plans on incorporating the local government. Thato and Veronica’s initiative also provides mentorship programs that assist adolescent girls in Thato’s township in planning their career path, teaching them basic life skills, and providing older girls with academic resources as they prepare to attend post-secondary education institutions.
Megumi Yamamoto
United Kingdom, 2012 Delegate
Since attending the 2012 G(irls)20 Summit in Mexico City, Megumi’s primary focus has been on education. The Summit had shown her that empowering girls from a young age and teaching them basic skills greatly assists them in reaching their full potential later on in their lives. She is currently working at Jacari, a student-run charity at Oxford University, where she teaches two young girls for whom English is not their first language.
Angelica Casado
Australia, 2012 Delegate
Australian Thai Youth Ambassadors Program
Since 2012, Angelica has initiated the first Australian Thai Youth Ambassadors Program, with the first delegation visiting Thailand earlier this year (2013). There are two main components to the project, the first providing Australian, Australian-Thai and Thai university students the opportunity to teach English and serve as mentors to students to five schools under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand’s Young Ambassador of Virtue Foundation. There is an emphasis of teaching students the importance of good will and citizenship. The second component focuses on cross-cultural activities between the participants, who get to gain a deeper understanding of Thai culture and it’s people.
The Girls20 Summit gave Angelica the various knowledge, tools, and skills, for example the Google workshop, that she has been able to apply to this project. It gave her the confidence and willpower, to change the world around her with the opportunities she could find. This annual program is set to continue in 2014 with the support of the Royal Thai Consulate General of Sydney and aims to further develop its positive impact over the next year.
For more information please visit: http://australianthaiyouthambassadors.com/
Tara Suri
USA delegate 2011
Since the 2011 summit, Tara has continued to engage critically with the dominant discourses relating to gender, sexuality, and development. For her senior thesis at Harvard College, she researched the U.S. anti-prostitution pledge, an aid conditionality that has required NGOs receiving U.S. federal funding to declare their moral opposition to prostitution. Through conducting field work with sex worker collectives - organizations that mobilize for the health and rights of sex workers - in India, Tara documented the ways the U.S. policy has compromised HIV/AIDS outreach, reinforced laws that force sex workers into prison-like rehabilitation centers, and marginalized the voices of sex workers. She is currently pursuing an MPhil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar.
Mariana Jacinto
European Union Delegate 2013
Transformers Project
After attending the G(irls) 20 Summit in June 2013, Mariana traveled to Bahrain where she volunteered for 6 weeks and had the chance to apply the knowledge she gained in the Moscow. There, she taught high school students about entrepreneurship and worked as a project manager in the same program she first applied to.
Back in Portugal, Mariana is transforming teens into transformers! That is the mission of Transformers Project, an initiative that fights youth inactivity using sports, arts and hip-hop as tools to make positive change in local communities.
In the Transformers Project, every girl has a voice! Diversity is one of the values taught to every child! Boy or girl, everyone can use what they love to transform our society! Everyone can be a transformer!
More information at www.projectotransformers.org or email to [email protected]
Yoomin Lee
South Korea Delegate 2013
CodeKorea
After the 2013 G(irls)20 Summit, Yoomin identified the importance of the relationship between technology and women. From this identification, she founded CodeKorea to empower girls and women through coding education with the help of G(irls)20 Summit Google Global Mentorship Program. She believed that it is important to give opportunities to everyone who is interested in STEM industries and therefore designed a general platform in Korea to do so. Yoomin is looking forward to expanding her initiative as time goes by.
She believes that it is time to change the number of women in STEM industries, and hopes her business will be a stepping stone for the change in the future.
Yoomin has said that the 2013 G(irls)20 Summit proved to be the catalyst for the way she looks at the world and she now feels more responsible for being a true changemaker.
Amelia Da Gama
France Delegate 2014
Video Spark
Vandinika Shukla
India Delegate 2014
Ensemble
Ayendha Kukuh Pangesti
Indonesia Delegate 2014
Talas Day Project
Sarah Mesbah
Egypt Delegate 2014
The Egyptian Sewing Initiative
Veronica Estudillo Velasco
Mexico Delegate 2014
¡Apostemos que Si!
Elizabeth Jessop
USA, 2012 Delegate
In 2012, Elizabeth was inspired at the G(irls)20 Summit to get further involved in the international community.
Elizabeth is now the Community Outreach Director and Girls’ Globe Representative, of a not-for-profit start-up called Girls’ Globe. Her mission is to raise awareness and educate others about global issues concerning the rights, health, and empowerment of women and girls. Each and every day she works to build partnerships and a database of organizations working to empower women and girls, to enable creative partnerships in research, funding, and development.
To learn more, visit www.girlsglobe.org
Claire Poyser
Australia, 2011 Delegate
Claire Poyser is an active blogger and a writer for a British organization called Safe World For Women. She has served on an Australian youth delegation to a model UN conference at Harvard. She is also part of a student group setting up a bursary fund to help students headed overseas to undertake internships.
After the 2011 G(irls)20 Summit in France, Claire was a panelist at a forum called the ‘Gender Agenda’ where she spoke about the links between educating girls and economic development.
July Lee
USA, 2010 Delegate
Project Write a Smile
In 2011, after returning from the G(irls)20 Summit in Canada, July launched an initiative as part of Project Heart for Change: South Africa to empower youth in the US by taking global action in the local level. She recruited US sponsors to help teens in South Africa continue with their education.
Shortly after her experience helping the teens of South Africa, July founded Project Write a Smile, a unique program that is dedicated to helping disadvantaged children and teenagers in underserved communities. Oftentimes, these children are either orphaned and/or abused, or living in below average circumstances. July’s project links children and teenagers with role models and mentors.
In December 2012, Project Write a Smile, visited Casa Betesda in Mexico donating their time, energy and toys for the children there. The Project is currently being put on hold as July will begin medical school at The University of California, San Diego, in Fall 2013.
To learn more, visit www.projectwriteasmile.com
Leah Stuart-Sheppard
Canada, 2010 Delegate
After the 2010 G(irls)20 Summit in Canada, Leah was inspired to work within a first nations community in Northern Ontario as a Summer Reading Camp Counsellor.
She is also involved in CMETrust where she founded and ran a university chapter. CMETrust is an organization that works to advance education in Kenya by providing secondary school scholarships to students from the Mathare Valley slum.
It was after the G(irls)20 Summit, Leah was inspired to visit Kenya twice to work alongside the students that CMETrust supports. In 2013, she took on a more She joined the Board as Volunteer Manager in 2013.
For more information, visit www.cmetrust.org
Ines Le Bihan
France, 2010 Delegate
Sustainable Designs
After the 2010 G(irls)20 Summit in Canada, Ines has made it her life’s work to design simple and efficient designs solutions focused on people, with the goal of improving lives – from safe and efficient lighting for transportation systems to sustainable design.
In 2011, Ines launched her own design agency, and has won numerous international design competitions.
For more information, visit www.Ineslebihan.com