A collection of impact stories from across the globe - of young people who made an impact through the Global Citizen Program!

1. THIS WINTER!
HERE’S HOW
You Can
Change
The World

2. 500 young students from around the world
came together to Colombia to work with the
Education Department of Bogota, reaching
out to more than 80,000 children. The
project helped build social capital in the city
and exemplified the possibilities of
collaboration between youth, civil and
private institutions for a better society.
Youth like you
Shape Columbia!

3. SAVING FOR A
Safe Rwanda!
Save Today, Safe Tomorrow is a project run in
Rwanda. Through organised activities in
Rwanda with the help of international
volunteers, over 50,000 young people and
children were reached out to. They were given
financial education and ensured inclusion by
promoting the culture of savings.

4. 459 students from Canada took the brave
step of teaching English in Mexico,
Colombia, India and Brazil. Not only have
they succeeded in impacting communities
across the world, but have gone on to
develop global competencies. Imagine if
Indians could give the world this way and
you are one of them?
from canada
for the world!

5. In 2013, Dhruv Gupta, a student from Delhi
signed up for the Global Citizen program for the
project to teach disabled children at a
rehabilitation centre in Izmir, Turkey. In his account,
he expresses how this opportunity allowed himself
explore not just 10 world cultures, Turkey but a part
of himself. 6 weeks thoroughly impacted Dhruv to
think, feel and be more.
Today, Dhruv is a teaching fellow with Teach For
India and has produced an average growth of 1.5
grade levels in a class of 61 students across all
subjects including English, Math and Science in less
than 10 months at a government school in Delhi.
rediscovery
across the seas

6. Kiran Deep, a student of Marine Engineering,
Kolkata left to Semarang, Indonesia in 2013.
While working on a culture education project,
Kiran Deep was sensitised about
inaccessibility to the most basic education
there. With the project management and
other soft skills he gained there, he is now able
to organise and deliver conferences for groups
of young people in India.
Let’s learn your
Culture together!

7. a for apple
I’m for education!
Sudakshina Sridharan, an Electrical & Electronics
Engineering students from Anna University,
Chennai went to Thailand to teach children in a
local school.
At the end of her 6 weeks journey there, she had
not only been accustomed to the everyday Thai life
but become a compassionate teacher that could
closely understand the kind of children she was
teaching, how beautifully different they were and
the kind of person she was becoming in the process.
Sudakshina, an NRI student in India herself has
been to several other countries on family holiday
trips but is sure that nothing has left a lasting mark
on her like the Global Citizen Program.

8. In 2012, Vighnesh Shukla from KIIT University,
Bhubaneswar embarked on his Global Citizen
journey to work in an NGO handling several
orphanages in St. Petersburg, Russia. As part of the
project, Vighnesh had to play the role of a marketer
for a Christmas fundraising activity.
Following his experience which helped him to make
a difference, Vighnesh was able to apply his
international project management experience in
helping the placement department of his University
to organise events.
Learning while
impacting Russia!

9. THIS WINTER!
THAT’S HOW
You Will Be
CHANGING
The World