Um Gesto Solidário is an apolitical non-profit organisation working to help Brazil's homeless population. The project was founded by Bruna as a collaborative effort to coordinate, collect, sort, store and deliver vital supplies. Today, the organisation is made up of a fixed group of 6 volunteers, though other people who want to help are always welcome to do so. Over a hundred volunteers have participated so far, bringing empathy and compassion to those in need. Um Gesto Solidário distributes snacks, drinks, and hygiene items, as well as weather-specific clothing such as hats, blankets, gloves and socks. The organisation has developed key partnerships with schools and companies to promote campaigns and accelerate donations. Recently, a winter-wear campaign was completed through which more than 500 pieces of warm clothing were collected and donated to homeless people.

In the past year, Um Gesto Solidário has managed to successfully carry out more than a hundred actions with approximately 20,000 people helped. Bruna is a strong believer in the idea that people need attention and affection in order to change their lives, and her work hopes to plant the seed to help bring positive change today and instil hope for tomorrow.

Paraguay has one of the youngest demographics in Latin America, with 77% of the population under the age of 35. Encontrémonos is an organisation dedicated to training young leaders in the country, linking together partners in order to build personal connections to facilitate social development. As CEO, Nel overseas the Encontrémonos' innovative methodology, which includes workshops, meet-ups throughout the country, and training programmes to ensure participants have a global perspective while generating local impact.

Encontrémonos has reached over 20,000 people since its founding, expanding the contact network of participants at both a national and international level. Encontrémonos hopes to reach the entire country and form a national platform, in order to transform Paraguay into a country that exports leaders and ideas.

Katarina is the Founder and President of The European Association for Law and Finance (EALF), a non-governmental organisation engaged in legal, legislative, economic and cultural issues through advocacy, research, education, and litigation. The EALF advocates for and engages in a multidisciplinary approach to advance peacebuilding and conflict prevention in the Balkans region. It does this by analysing and addressing the causes of conflict, researching peacebuilding in innovative and regionally grounded programmes, engaging with peacebuilding practice and policy, identifying key issues and national players in the transitional justice process, educating young peacebuilders, improving information, strengthening regional youth mobility, providing support for war victims, and establishing national forums.

The initiative has so far brought more than 20,000 young people and 1,000 leaders, civil servants, war victims, and experts from the region and elsewhere, and has provided opportunities to collaboratively reflect on the wrongs of the past and rebuild intercommunal respect and trusting relationships. The initiative emphasises working with groups traditionally under-represented in discourse on war victims, such as sexual assault victims.

Sustenta Honduras is a youth-led NGO whose mission is to encourage youth participation in sustainable development through capacity-building, opportunities, and Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE). As a Founding Member, José has represented Sustenta Honduras in the Task Force on Climate Change in the Northern Triangle, an initiative led by the Inter-American Dialogue. The Task Force met three times between September 2021 and February 2022 to provide inputs for a series of policy reports. Task Force members included representatives of environmental organisations, rural, indigenous, and Afro-descendant communities, young activities, prominent former government officials, business leaders, and technical experts.

José attended meetings with USAID's Northern Triangle Task Force, the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, and congressional staff from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. José recommended incubators as a way to build the capacity of youth climate organizations to advocate for a more inclusive and robust response to the climate crisis.
 

Along with a colleague, Levern established a staff-led committee formed during the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 to support communities in South Africa. The organisers firmly believe that PwC Advisory SA has a role to play in supporting communities in need, and the success of the committee led to the formal establishment of the Societal Impact Strategic Pillar, of which Levern serves as co-chair. The Societal Impact Strategic Pillar is guided by PwC's values and rooted in its corporate purpose. Its approach to corporate responsibility suggests a proactive and intentional strategy to innovate through understanding societal challenges not as business constraints, but as opportunities to utilitise core competencies and bring about positive change.

The Social Impact Strategic Pillar's impact is focused on three key areas: education, environment, and community impact. To date, the initiative has supported over 1,500 people. Through its COVID-19 crisis response, it raised R374,477, supported 422 families with nutrition, helped 15 learners and two early education centres, as well as 14 organisations nationally. The initiative also developed a six-month skilled programme to support unemployed young people, with 36 people impacted in partnership with two NGOs.