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Digital Opportunity Trust and the Mastercard Foundation expand the impact of the Going Beyond project with nine youth-serving organizations in Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Côte d’Ivoire
Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) and the Mastercard Foundation are proud to announce nine new partner organizations for the project, “Going Beyond – Partnering for a Youth-Led Future.” These nine youth-led and youth-serving partner organizations join the six named in the first year of the project, bringing the total number of partners to 15. The addition […]
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DOT Announces Expansion of Youth-Led Climate Action Program Across Eight Countries, Supported by the Cisco Foundation
Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) is pleased to announce the expansion of the DOT Climate Program with support from the Cisco Foundation. This builds on the success of the pilot climate project in Lebanon and Tanzania, which will continue in the expanded initiative. This new phase, “Youth-led Climate Action at Scale,” will broaden DOT’s climate program […]
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#DOTYouth Driving Social Innovation from Grassroots to Global
In 2010, Sipho Mwanza was at home in the Zambian city of Choma when he saw an advertisement for a job collecting data for the census. He had just finished high school, and he was saving up money to attend university. The job seemed perfect, so he applied, and soon found himself bicycling through rural […]
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Evaluation Brief: Daring to Shift: Placing Young Women at the Center of Inclusive Growth
In 2023, DOT marked the conclusion of Daring to Shift (D2S), our largest multi-country, youth-led initiative. In partnership with the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada, this 4-year project, implemented by DOT spanned Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Lebanon, Jordan, and partner organizations in expansion countries Ghana, Malawi, Zambia, and Uganda. It placed young people—particularly young […]
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DOT Climate Program: From Local Action to Global Impact
The global climate crisis is driving unparalleled change, leading to a shift in mindset among young people using the power of knowledge. A mindset shift, coupled with capacity building, is enabling youth to raise awareness and collaborate with communities to foster grassroots mobilization and collective action. The Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) climate project is demonstrating […]
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The Good, the Gaps, and the Grind: Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs on their Journey to Success
Egyptian-American writer Suzy Kassem once wrote that “fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.” Luckily for Africa, this continent is not short of brave young people. To see that, one need look no further than the continent’s young entrepreneurs, who are sidestepping the lack of formal employment opportunities in their societies and boldly writing […]
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Entrepreneurship is for Everyone: Stories of Resilience from Young African Entrepreneurs
Like millions of young Africans, Malawian Felix Kantande Nkhoma first became an entrepreneur out of necessity. “I started my business based on the experience of poverty,” he says. But as he hustled to build his small gaming center, Felix knew he wanted a life pointed towards something bigger than just surviving. “I am not poor, […]
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