Inside the ODIC Journey: Real Stories from Impact Challenge Winners – YOA

Background

Every 12 months, the OD Impact Challenge attracts hundreds of younger changemakers from throughout the world, every bringing daring concepts, lived experiences, and a need to construct significant impression. While the outcomes of the problem are celebrated, the journeys behind these outcomes typically stay unseen.

Behind each shortlisted application, finalist e mail, and profitable announcement is a course of formed by preparation, rejection, resilience, and development. Many aspiring candidates are keen to know what actually differentiates robust functions, how winners navigate uncertainty, and what the ODIC journey appears to be like like past the ultimate consequence.

To reply to this want for readability and peer studying, OPPORTUNITY Desk will host a stay Instagram dialog bringing collectively ODIC 2025 winners and finalists. This session will create an open area for sincere storytelling, sensible classes, and shared reflections on navigating the OD Impact Challenge from application to recognition.

Theme

Inside the ODIC Journey: Real Stories from Impact Challenge Winners

Purpose

To demystify the OD Impact Challenge course of by amplifying the lived experiences of ODIC winners, whereas equipping future candidates and younger changemakers with sensible insights, confidence, and readability to interact international alternatives deliberately.

Objectives

To unpack what motivated ODIC winners to apply and the way they approached the application course of.
To share actual experiences navigating the choice levels, together with challenges, classes, and turning factors.
To spotlight key components that strengthened their functions and sustained them via the course of.
To exhibit how recognition via ODIC has influenced their work, management, and impression.
To encourage aspiring candidates to method future alternatives with preparation, resilience, and authenticity.

Format

A 60-minute Instagram Live dialog hosted by Opportunity Desk, that includes a moderated dialogue with ODIC 2025 winners, adopted by stay viewers engagement and questions.

Host

Favour Abatang, Community Manager, Opportunity Desk

Guest Speakers

Sameer Ali Khan, Founder, Collective Pakistan
Osmar Zaidan Al Wafi, CEO, Kita Korban Bullying
Hamayun Khan, Founder, SolaTech

Event Details

Date: January 30, 2026
Time: To be confirmed
Platform: Instagram Live by way of Opportunity Desk

About Opportunity Desk

Established in 2012, Opportunity Desk (OD) is the largest digital media platform devoted to increasing entry to schooling, funding, and international alternatives for younger individuals round the world. OD bridges data gaps by curating and sharing scholarships, grants, fellowships, jobs, internships, coaching, and volunteer alternatives that assist youth improvement and management.

Through its work, Opportunity Desk allows younger individuals, no matter background or location, to entry life-altering alternatives, change concepts globally, and put together for the future with confidence and company.