Unleash the Potential of Young Changemakers

US-Japan Youth Changemakers Exchange

Japanese Youth Venturers visited New York and Philadelphia!

• Six of Youth Venturers (five of high school students and one college student) who are trying to solve social issues were selected as the participants of this trip from 97 teams of youth venturers in Japan. Each of them has own project out of school, they are challenging for it with their intrinsic motivation. 

• Youth Venturers spent the first three days in New York City to meet with Ashoka Fellows such as Sascha Haselmayer, Founder & CEO of Citymart, and also visited Eye-to-Eye. They also presented their activities at Japan Society New York, inspired many audiences. Then traveled to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania to engage with students at the newly established Social Innovation Lab at the Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility and learn about their latest initiatives. The final day, Youth Venturers visited Columbia University in New York City, they noticed the difference in the culture and atmosphere between the college in the city and in the countryside.

• Youth Venturers are now planning the reporting event of this program, it will be held in a couple of months in Japan.

We are using your donation to create opportunities where Youth Venturers (including who is not encouraged continuing the activity by their environment because of their parents or teachers who want their children to be elite or ignore their children's feelings) can get confidence and proceed with their project and their own life.

We would like to change such a situation around youth in Japan. 

Thank you for your warm support!

Youth Venture Program  -Ashoka Japan