GoMakeADifference

2016 Awards

Below is the list of GoMakeADifference's 2016 winners.

GoMakeADifference has this year been expanded to all UWC schools and colleges – with 30 grants being awarded of $1,000 each for UWC students to go, make a difference immediately after they graduate.

In 2016, UWC students delivered community projects in eighteen countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. They designed and developed each of the projects themselves, based on a wide variety of global challenges and contexts. The founders, Colin Habgood and Jill Longson, were impressed and moved by the diversity and quality of projects and the obvious commitment from applications.

There were a significant number of applications to choose from and deciding on which projects should be worthy of an award proved difficult. All applications were considered in great detail and were awarded on the originality of the project, the level of impact and sustainability they will have, the level of personal development and challenge for the students and their likelihood for success.

In true UWC spirit, some projects were delivered by students coming together across more than one school/college. Led by Blessing Chirimbani from UWC RCN, with support from UWC RBC and UWC Mahindra - ‘A voice for the voiceless’ project will refurbish a boys’ home and provide a better education environment in Zimbabwe. Other UWC team efforts include the Kabul Model UN project, which will be run in Afghanistan by Massiullah Faqiri from UWC Adriatic and Muheb Laheeb Akbar from UWC in Mostar. Together with the mini projects in Baltistan ran by Anila Bano from Li Po Chun UWC and Noor Bibi from UWC Mostar.

2016 project awards are listed below and we wish them all the greatest of success in delivering their projects:

The team at GoMakeADifference would like to thank everyone who submitted an application this year and hope that somehow they can all still deliver their projects. We would also like to thank the UWC GoMakeADifference Co-ordinators at the various colleges in helping promote the award scheme and with applications.

We hope the GoMakeADifference projects awarded this year will inspire students to start to think about how they could make a difference in 2017.

Over the coming weeks we hope to update this website with details of the projects and the difference they made.