Generation Unlimited — Vision of hope from Atbara to innovation in Sudan’s Darfur
UNICEF Sudan launched the Young People’s Agenda contest as part of Generation Unlimited at the UN General Assembly 2018. Sudan is one of 16 countries chosen to participate. Over 2000 Sudanese Youth aged 14–24 applied for the Youth Challenge. Twenty young innovators were invited to join a workshop to design new solutions. These innovators come from…, Vision of Hope, Towards promoting equal access to education, they came up with the idea to create a digital platform for all visually impaired people in Sudan. The digital platform will give free access to educational tools for those visually impaired. They named their project “Al Basera" meaning “Vision of Hope”. It is a local version of Wikipedia where any…, Local Solution for a Global Vision, Growing up in Nivasha Camp, one of Sudan’s largest Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in North Darfur Manara Asad (23), Al Fadel Suliman Mekki (22) and Yaseen Musa Sabr (23) want to use their project to give back to the community where they were raised. “We found out about this youth challenge through Facebook and we decided to apply!” said…