🌟 Partner organizations we worked with

🇲🇽 Mexico 

• Huerto Roma Verde: Community-led climate education & ecological restoration
  
  
• Genera Territorios A.C: Gender equity & regenerative community development
  
  
• Las Sabinas: LGBTQ+ feminist grassroots network
  
  
• Rennueva: Plastic waste collection company

🇨🇴 Colombia 

• Pichacho con  Futuro: Pioneering youth demobilization, conflict prevention, and contributing to the design of a local development
  
  
• Mi Barrio Mi Sueño: Foundation empowering women and children to overcome violence, discrimination, hunger, and educational barriers.
  
  
  

🚀 Key achievements

Our 2025 scholars collaborated across cultures to co-create community-based solutions with local partners. Highlights include:

• 🌱 Bilingual climate education toolkit for children, promoting the 10Rs & ecological awareness
  
  
• 🎭 Feminist social media campaign to combat gender-based violence
  
  
• ♻️ Waste-sorting stencil system replicable at home, school, or workplaces
  
  
• 📘 Four financial-empowerment manuals co-designed with rural women in Ecatzingo, Mexico
  
  
• 🎥 Short documentary videos capturing the lived experiences of community leaders
  
  
• 🛠️ Hands-on workshops using Design Thinking for local problem-solving
  
  
• And many more….!
  

💬 Check out what scholars from 2025 edition shared about their experience: 

Final Wrap Up & Farewell by Chen Yu Ting in Mexico 🇲🇽
Reflections on the 3rd week in LiA by Francesca Lainé in Colombia 🇨🇴

👉 Interested in becoming a 2026 Scholar?

Get ready for:
✨ Real impact with local communities
✨ Cross-cultural teamwork
✨ Fieldwork, innovation & meaningful leadership

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