Youth leaders

GPE provides a platform and support for young people to realize their own ambitions for education transformation and to harness their passion to drive real change in global education.

Bangladesh

  • Ayesha Siddika
    Ayesha Siddika
Ayesha Siddika

Ayesha Siddika

Ayesha is a 27-year-old GPE youth leader from Bangladesh. As a Fellow at Teach For Bangladesh, she supports and leads community-service projects focused on addressing life challenges. Ayesha also co-leads Uttoron to build momentum to end gender-based violence (GBV) among adolescents. Ayesha roots for an education system that promotes equal access to learning, nurtures students' full potential, and is capable of facilitating every child becoming a lifelong learner.

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Cameroon

  • Ngimou Victorine Nchokuno
    Ngimou Victorine Nchokuno
Ngimou Victorine Nchokuno

Ngimou Victorine Nchokuno

Ngimou Victorine Nchokuno, is a 23-year-old youth leader from Cameroon. She is a fierce feminist activist with over eight years of experience. She is passionate about fighting for girls' rights and a hygienic environment for young women and girls in and out of schools. She founded a school club called Development Fighters, coached by Women for a Change, Cameroon in 2014. She is part of many movements, such as Nala Feminist Collective. She loves sports as a means to promote quality education.

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Canada

  • Ayesha Khan
    Ayesha Khan
Ayesha Khan

Ayesha Khan

Ayesha Khan is a 20-year-old gender and health equality advocate and researcher. She is a Global Health student at the University of Toronto. She works with various non-profit organizations to build a world in which women and girls' full potential is unlocked.  She has led a storytelling program with a female mentorship program called Girlz, FTW. It provides a platform for women and girls from over 15 countries to creatively share their experiences with gender inequality.

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Denmark

  • Neha Ullah
    Neha Ullah
Neha Ullah

Neha Ullah

Neha is a 23-year-old GPE youth leader from Denmark. She is passionate about working towards giving every child, specifically girls, the right to STEM education. She is the founder of the Nordic Women in STEM, where she teaches 400+ girls coding in the Copenhagen region. She is an advisory board member for the Girls Guiding and Scouting organization in Denmark.

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Germany

  • Omar Alkadamani
    Omar Alkadamani
Omar Alkadamani

Omar Alkadamani

Omar is an 18-year-old GPE youth leader based in Germany. He is active in his city's Youth Parliament and serves as a Youth Advisor for the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). He also volunteers with YoupaN, a network for development in education, BrandNewBundestag, and other political and cultural programs. His motivation is his own story. As a Syrian young immigrant in Germany, he has many experiences about integration and being new in education systems.

Guatemala

  • María José Carranza Padilla
    María José Carranza Padilla
María José Carranza Padilla

María José Carranza Padilla

Maria José is a 28-year-old GPE youth leader from Guatemala, where she advocates for guaranteed human rights for people with disabilities. She is also part of the UNDP youth advisory group in Guatemala. She is a core supporter of Miss Wheelchair Guatemala. Maria José firmly believes that sport is a tool to create a better world. She likes to describe herself as an unstoppable dreamer and education fighter.

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Honduras

  • Amara Thaecy Perdomo Aguilar
    Amara Thaecy Perdomo Aguilar
Amara Thaecy Perdomo Aguilar

Amara Thaecy Perdomo Aguilar

Amara Aguilar is a 22-year-old GPE youth leader from Honduras. She is an activist for women's rights and people with disabilities in her country with Foro Dakar Honduras and FENAPAPEDISH. She is the co-founder of an NGO with women with disabilities and their families called Colectiva Mariposa 88 HN. She is very passionate about education because, while growing up, she realized that education is not accessible to all.

Kenya

  • Valentine Mugun Chepkoech
    Valentine Mugun Chepkoech
Valentine Mugun Chepkoech

Valentine Mugun Chepkoech

Valentine Chepkoech is a 26-year-old GPE youth leader from Kenya. She is passionate about transformative leadership, accountability, and governance. In 2017, she spearheaded Thebarrierbreakers,  a mentorship organization that has been to over thirty schools in Kericho County, offering practical mentorship to students and distributing sanitary pads. After the COVID-19 pandemic, she narrowed her focus to The Second Chances Initiative which helps teenage mothers go back to school.

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Malawi

  • Eliza Chikoti
    Eliza Chikoti
  • Francine Niyomuhoza
    Francine Niyomuhoza
Eliza Chikoti

Eliza Chikoti

Eliza Chikoti is a 26-year-old GPE youth leader from rural Malawi. She is an education activist and philanthropist who promotes girls' education. She gives back to her community by supporting other vulnerable school-going children through mentoring, career guidance, motivational sessions, and SRHR sessions. She works with CAMFED and she believes that girls' education is the key to development.

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Francine Niyomuhoza

Francine Niyomuhoza

Francine Niyomuhoza is a 21-year-old GPE Youth Leader originally from Rwanda who  lives in a refugee camp in Malawi. She has worked as a community social worker for JRS on the Naweza Project. Growing up as a refugee, she knows that the only way of succeeding is by getting educated. She believes that education allows refugees and young people to attain knowledge and skills that can be used in different aspects of their lives.

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Nepal

  • Nir Shrestha
    Nir Shrestha
  • Lalita Tamang
    Lalita Tamang
Nir Shrestha

Nir Shrestha

Nir Shrestha is a 23-year-old GPE Youth Leader from Nepal who is an inclusive development enthusiast and a youth with disability rights campaigner. He has actively been advocating for disability rights, particularly inclusive and quality education for children with disabilities, and has worked as a consultant on several inclusive education projects. He believes change is possible when we amplify the voices of children and young people with disabilities at the global level.

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Lalita Tamang

Lalita Tamang

Lalita Tamang is a 19-year-old GPE Youth Leader from Nepal. She is a Girls Not Brides  youth leader.  Since childhood, she has been involved in extracurricular activities in her school, organizing programs and campaigns on leadership, education, environment, safety, self-defense, SRHR, and many other issues through the Tri Padma Child Club. She works with Civil societies and the government to include girls' issues in policy making.

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Nigeria

  • Motunrayo Fatoke
    Motunrayo Fatoke
  • Temilade Salami
    Temilade Salami
Motunrayo Fatoke

Motunrayo Fatoke

Motunrayo is a 24-year-old GPE youth leader championing access to quality education in marginalized communities in Nigeria. She currently works with TEP Centre. She designs projects focused on improving access to STEM education for girls and young women in Nigeria and co-plans the Education Innovation Summit (NEDIS), which has a core focus on bridging skill gaps to improve innovation in Africa.

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Temilade Salami

Temilade Salami

Temilade Salami is a 25-year-old GPE youth leader from Nigeria. She is the founder and executive director of EcoWarriors. She has spent the past five years leading a group of over 200 young environmentalists across 26 African countries. She has authored two environmental books to bridge the climate education gap in Africa. She also launched the Climate Education Leaders Fellowship in Africa. She is a member of the UNESCO SDG4Youth network.

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Pakistan

  • Anzal Abbas
    Anzal Abbas
Anzal Abbas

Anzal Abbas

Anzal Abbas is a 24-year-old GPE Youth Leader, from Pakistan. He works in the education and public health sectors as an advocate for youth empowerment. He is a member of known national youth advocacy platforms in Pakistan. He is the founder of Bagh-e-Sakina. He is also a content creator dedicated to improving people's awareness of social issues through @anzalabbas.

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South Sudan

  • Seme Luate Cons Lomoro
    Seme Luate Cons Lomoro
Seme Luate Cons Lomoro

Seme Luate Cons Lomoro

Seme Luate Cons Lomoro is a 22-year-old GPE Youth Leader based in Uganda Bidibidi Refugee. He is enrolled in Bidibidi in the projects of I CAN South Sudan, a youth- and refugee-led organization. He recently led a project called "Disability is not a Burden," which aims to assess, and enroll refugee children with disabilities in school, train teachers and parents, and provide assistive learning devices to children with disabilities.

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Tanzania

  • Salha Aziz
    Salha Aziz
Salha Aziz

Salha Aziz

Salha Aziz is a 28-year-old GPE youth leader from Tanzania. She is the founder and executive director of Binti Salha Foundation. She is an SDG champion and advocates for adolescent girls' and young women's rights to quality education, economic freedom, and good health. She is an AU-CIEFFA Ambassador for Girls' Right to Education. She believes that when a young girl is empowered and educated, a community is also empowered.

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Tunisia

  • Oussema Sahnoun
    Oussema Sahnoun
Oussema Sahnoun

Oussema Sahnoun

Oussema Sahnoun is a 25-year-old GPE Youth Leader from Tunisia. He is an active member of the National Association for the Right to Education for All, a member of the Tunisian Educational Coalition, and a member of the Educational Youth Academy of the Arab Campaign for Education for All. His interest in education is focused on climate education and equitable access to education for refugees.

Ukraine

  • Oleksii Druz
    Oleksii Druz
Oleksii Druz

Oleksii Druz

Oleksii is a 27-year-old Ukrainian GPE youth leader living in Romania. He was forced to flee to Romania as a result of the war in Ukraine. He now works with the National Youth Foundation (FNT) in Romania. He serves as a youth project coordinator to identify Ukrainian youth in local communities and design and deliver projects that meet their needs and priorities with a main focus on education.

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United Kingdom

  • Vee (Varaidzo) Kativhu
    Vee (Varaidzo) Kativhu
  • Heela Yoon
    Heela Yoon
Vee (Varaidzo) Kativhu

Vee (Varaidzo) Kativhu

Vee (Varaidzo) Kativhu is a GPE Youth Leader from the United Kingdom. She is a 24-year-old YouTuber and girls' education activist. She provides academic empowerment skills to students through her non-profit organization, Empowered By Vee. She is a Diana Award Legacy Award recipient. She is also a UN Youth Envoy SDGs Young Leader. She is currently an active ambassador for United World Schools, CAMFED, and GirlUp Zimbabwe.

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Heela Yoon

Heela Yoon

Heela Yoon is a 24-year-old peace and education activist based in the UK. She is the founder of Afghan Youth Ambassadors for Peace , She has worked with Global Network of Women Peacebuilders  as a Cora Weiss peacebuilding fellow. She is also a member of the United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) and the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers. The office of the UN Youth Envoy recently recognized her as one of the Young Leaders for SDGs 4 and 9.

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Zimbabwe

  • Tendai Kunyelesa
    Tendai Kunyelesa
Tendai Kunyelesa

Tendai Kunyelesa

Tendai Kunyelesa is a 22-year-old GPE youth leader from Zimbabwe. She is a dynamic young leader who is passionate about advancing the leadership of girls and young women in SRHR, HIV prevention, gender equality, and education. She is the co-founder of the Development Agenda for Girls and Women in Africa Network. Tendai is also part of Generation Unlimited's Young People's Action Team (YPAT).

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