Voices / Change stories
Young leaders, mentors, residents and partner organisations on what changed, in their own words.
Youth Climate Leaders, mentors, residents and the youth-led organisations behind each Youth Fund grant on what changed for them and their communities.
Youth Fund · Phase 3 · Coastal resilience · 2026In coastal Ganjam, Odisha, Barsha and Youth for Social Development are training young climate champions to protect mangroves, beaches and Olive Ridley turtle nests.
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Youth Leadership · Youth Climate Champion · 2023Mayur, a biology student, surveyed his community and led workshops on waste and deforestation, finding that welcoming women in was the key to getting everyone involved.
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Youth Leadership · Youth Climate Champion · 2023Devika gathered residents' experience of contaminated water, ran climate education sessions for young people, and carried DJ Halli's voice to the UN climate conference.
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Youth Leadership · Youth Climate LeaderDeekshitha led door-to-door campaigns, bin distribution, wall paintings and follow-up monitoring in KSRTC Colony, and grew into a confident community organiser.
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Youth Leadership · Youth Climate LeaderMohammed designed lively sessions in faith spaces and youth groups, clearing up long-standing confusion about wet and dry waste.
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Youth Leadership · Community mentor, Need Base IndiaAshlesh, who works with children and young people at Need Base India, mentored youth teams to deliver waste awareness in KSRTC Colony.
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Youth Leadership · Resident and community supporterLakshmi, a resident for over 25 years, joined the youth campaign and now helps neighbours with follow-ups and tends the new plantation.
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Youth Fund · Phase 1 · Climate educationYoung people designed contextual board games that link floods, heat and drought to their own neighbourhoods, now used in schools and community meetings.
ATREERead the story →
Youth Fund · Phase 1 · Water, health and climateResidents traced rashes and illness back to their water supply and learned to take it up with the ward, through tools co-designed with the community.
SOCHARARead the story →
Youth Fund · Phase 2 · Plastic-free, waste-wise communitiesA youth climate team brought together awareness, BBMP marshals and paper-bag training so shopkeepers in Gandhinagara moved away from single-use plastic.
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Youth Fund · Phase 2 · AgroecologyNagendra, a young farmer in H.D. Kote, Mysuru, took up soil health, intercropping and vermicomposting. Within nine months his yields rose and neighbours began to follow.
Pipal TreeRead the story →
Youth Fund · Phase 2 · Regenerative farmingLaxmi, a 25-year-old student and farmer, turned an acre of failing maize into a diverse tree-based plot with drip irrigation backed by the Horticulture Department.
SCOPERead the story →
Youth Fund · Phase 2 · Civic actionStudents from North Eastern communities in Bengaluru built inclusive spaces on campus and stepped up as organisers and leaders.
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