One Young World Hauwa Ojeifo Scholarship 2025 for emerging young Leaders (Fully Funded to attend the One Young World Summit 2025 in Munich, Germany)

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Application Deadline: 29 June 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 One Young World Hauwa Ojeifo Scholarship. The Hauwa Ojeifo Scholarship was created to empower young leaders who’re dedicated to addressing the pressing and deeply interconnected challenges going through girls and ladies right this moment. The scholarship equips emerging changemakers with the instruments, information, and international platform they want to lead transformative motion. By supporting passionate young leaders who’re tackling points like child marriage, gender-based violence, and incapacity rights, the Hauwa Ojeifo Scholarship goals to foster a brand new technology of empathetic, brave, and visionary leaders working towards a extra simply, inclusive, and equitable world for all.

After being identified with bipolar and PTSD, Hauwa based She Writes Woman, an award-winning motion giving psychological well being and psychosocial disabilities a voice in Nigeria by empowering folks with lived experiences to share their tales.

To assist these with psychological well being circumstances and disabilities, Hauwa has established a 24/7 Toll-free Helpline that anybody in Nigeria can name to converse to a skilled counsellor. Alongside this, she has established a web based neighborhood of over 2,000 psychological well being advocates and folks residing with psychological well being circumstances. Members can join, share their experiences, and obtain correct information and details about psychological well being.

In 2024, Hauwa was chosen by Melinda French Gates as one among twelve leaders who acquired a $20 million fund to assist charitable organisations which are doing impactful work to enhance girls’s well being and well-being.

Requirements

• Young leaders aged 18 – 30* who:
• Are main or enjoying a management position in an organisation/initiative with confirmed affect in a area aligned with a minimum of one among the following themes:
  • Mental Health together with neurodivergence and developmental variations.
  • Domestic & Sexual Violence.
  • Disability Rights & the rights of older folks.
  • Gynecological Health & Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights.
  • Maternal and Child Health.
  • Issues of the Girl Child (FGM, Child-Adolescent Pregnancy & Child Marriage).
  • Non-Communicable Diseases.
• While this chance will assist initiatives making an affect on any of the points above, One Young World is especially eager to join with organisations that combine psychosocial assist and a incapacity inclusive lens in their programming.
• Live and make an affect in Africa, Asia or the Middle East.

*Most delegates are between the ages of 18 and 30. The One Young World staff will think about functions from those that are older than 30, pending demonstration of applicable private affect, initiative, and willingness to have interaction

Benefits

• Full funding to take part in the One Young World Summit 2025 which takes place in Munich, Germany from 3 – 6 November.
• Lifelong membership of the One Young World Ambassador Community.
• Access to the One Young World Action Accelerator & professional led mento classes to assist flip their inspiration into motion.
• Opportunity to apply for grant funding of up to $25,000 USD.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the One Young World Hauwa Ojeifo Scholarship