UNLEASH

Last year, 130+ UNLEASHers hosted 29 UNLEASH Hacks across 22 countries, tackling issues from climate adaptation to gender equity. Are you eager to bring UNLEASH to your community? Express your interest by March 31: unleash.org/host-an-unleas…

2025 kicked off with 3 Hacks in January! The latest in Kampala was led by UNLEASH and hosted by @UNDPUganda. It brought together UniPod reps and university students to tackle education and the future of work in Africa. This Hack was part of a collaboration with @timbuktooafrica✨

A very special @timbuktooafrica x @UNLEASHlab 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 is underway at @MakUnipod this week, where over 30 UniPod actors from throughout Africa have come together to drive youth innovation across the continent 🌍

The @timbuktooafrica x @UNLEASHlab Workshop is paving the way for a generation of young innovators to creating lasting solutions, with the vision to foster 2,000 early-stage solutions 💡 and impact 50 million lives by enhancing education, creating jobs and improving livelihoods.

Your 2024 Wrapped… UNLEASH Edition! This year, we not only turned ideas into action across continents, but also came up with new ways to ensure changemakers around the world can drive impact in their communities and beyond. 💡✨

In 2024, nearly 30 Hacks across 4 continents engaged over 750 Talents. From supporting small businesses in Yemen to driving indigenous climate action in Bolivia, 130 Facilitators and 130 Organizers made a global impact. Stay tuned for what's next in 2025! 👏✨🎬

Under the theme ‘Technology for Economic Recovery,’ 40 young innovators developed solutions focused on operational efficiency, market access, and customer engagement at UNLEASH Hack Yemen. Read more: unleash.org/tech-solutions…

In Uganda, 20 Talents with mental health and refugee backgrounds came together for an UNLEASH Hack to ideate solutions including using digital tools and community champions to increase access to mental health services for refugees! Read more: unleash.org/mental-health-…

Two years ago, UNLEASH India brought together 1,000 changemakers to design innovative solutions for a sustainable future!

Do you want to have a more active role in creating more impact, but you’re not really sure how to make it happen? Do you need help turning all your ideas into a project? Join our next workshop to design your impact journey. Register now: linktr.ee/unleashlab

Ready to design your impact journey? Join us on Nov 27 and Dec 4 at 14.00 GMT for a two-series workshop introducing the UNLEASH Innovation Hub, a program to help you turn ideas into action! 🚀 Register now: linktr.ee/unleashlab

Whether you’re dreaming of your own project or want to drive sustainability, join our Design Your Impact Journey workshop on Nov 27 at 14:00 GMT to get started. Don’t miss it! 🔗 Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/j/82003474749

Ready to turn your passion into impact? We’re launching the UNLEASH Innovation Hub, a hands-on program designed to help changemakers like YOU make a real difference! 🌍

To address challenges related to the impact of climate change on cities, young people came together for UNLEASH Hack Kigali, to innovate around building climate resilience in urban areas. 🍀 Read more: unleash.org/building-clima…

At UNLEASH Hack Bolivia, participants leveraged their collective imagination to frame problems and ideate solutions to the impact of climate change, by learning from those with expertise and lived indigenous perspectives. Read more: unleash.org/catalyzing-ind…

It was also the first time we launched UNLEASH Plus, with 25 teams from the UNLEASH Community who joined the program to scale their solutions. That very first edition included iconic UNLEASH initiatives like OneDay Health, @Novfeed_tz, Permalution, @slamoutloud, and so many more!

Can you believe it’s been 5 years since #UNLEASHChina?! In 2019, 1.000 Talents from 162 nationalities gathered in Shenzhen to tackle challenges around the SDGs. From that Innovation Lab came solutions like @whering__!

In Uganda, cultural heritage sites and historic landmarks are increasingly threatened by the effects of climate change. At UNLEASH Hack Kampala, participants focused on problems relating to climate change and Uganda’s heritage. Read more: unleash.org/innovating-for…

World Cities Day calls for changemakers to take local action for sustainable urban areas. In Lusaka, where there are climate-related shocks to food security, 19 young people came together for an UNLEASH Hack to address these issues. Read more: unleash.org/building-clima…

In September, UNLEASH Hack Pakistan brought together 30 brilliant minds to address small businesses and entrepreneurs' challenges in scaling their growth. Read more about the cool solutions coming out of it in our newest blog post unleash.org/accelerating-e…