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How To Apply For Cisco Global Citizen Prize $250,000 Youth Leadership Award

Cisco has announced the Global Citizen Prize for Youth Leadership Award, see how to apply for this $250,000 award.

 

According to the official page, Cisco and Global Citizen run the award and started it in 2018. Cisco is an American multinational technology company that is popular for its networking hardware, software telecommunications equipment and other higher-technology services and products.

 

Global Citizen is an action platform dedicated to achieving the end of extreme poverty. Both bodies believe that young people around the world are leading the way to create and implement solutions to achieve Global Goals, and to accelerate global problem solving.

 

The Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award was established by Cisco and Global Citizen to recognise and lift up a young person positively impacting the world.

How to Apply for Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award

Criteria

  • Applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 30.
  • Their invention must have a track-record of measurable impact at scale over the last 3-5 years advancing one or more of the Global Goals.
  • It must have a compelling vision and concrete plans for how to extend this work in the next 3-5 years, including how the prize will advance efforts.
  • The invention should inspire other young people to have an impact on achieving one or more of the Global Goals.
  • It must demonstrate the values and embodies the spirit of a Global Citizen and a Global Problem Solver.
  • Their invention must use technology or internet-based communications to improve efficiency, reach, and magnify impact.

To Apply

  • Follow this link and ensure to complete all the necessary information.
  • Submissions are welcome from every country.
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All applications for the Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award must be submitted before 11:59pm EDT on Sunday 20th September 2020.

 

Priya Prakash won the 2019 Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award. The 28-year-old health care entrepreneur is working to ensure every child across India can grow up healthy.

 

She founded HealthSetGo, an organisation integrating technology and health care to empower parents, doctors, schools, and governments to make data-driven decisions to improve the health and lives of children.

 

In 2018, Wawira Njiru won it. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Food for Education; an organisation working with vulnerable children in Kenyan public schools to improve their lives by providing subsidised, nutritious school lunches.

 

Food for Education has provided over 400,000 school meals, contributing to improved nutrition status, school attendance, and performance. Njiru is the first-ever Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award winner.

 

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