Like with many other areas of life and work, the Global Solutions Initiative Summit 2020 was unable to escape the impacts of COVID-19. Rather than cancel the Summit entirely, the organisers and sponsors worked to make it an entirely online event. Having attended the inaugural Summit in person as a 2017 Young Global Changer and … Read more
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Read about the impact the Global Solutions Summer School had on Young Global Changer Yelena Novikova´s professional life.
By Léonce Gamaï (YGC, 2019) Founded in October 2017 by a 21-year-old Briton, Invisible (Manchester) trains homeless people as tour guides and public speakers. The social enterprise of the Young Global Changer aims at having a global impact through local actions.
It started on the second day of the Global Solutions Summer School, when Kavindya Thennakoon took the first step of what some later called a “small revolution.” It led to an amazing chain reaction which challenged the makeup of panels at the Summer School and the Global Solutions Summit.
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