The Global HEY Climate Fund aims to help three selected young climate activists with their projects. All Applicants must submit their project proposal and the three (3) best proposals will receive a grant for their projects.

Benefits

This year, the selected projects will be awarded five thousand dollars (US$ 2500) each. After receiving this grant, the beneficiaries will update and show the results of their projects to the Ashley Lashley Foundation's Evaluation Committee.

The HEY Global Climate Fund is open to the public and HEY Campaign members. Applicants who are not part of the HEY Campaign, but are beneficiaries of the grant, should join the HEY Campaign to expand its global reach.

Please note that this is a project proposal form, so please fill in all the fields.

 SEPARATE PROPOSALS WOULD NOT BE ACCEPTED 

Criteria

Applicants must submit a proposal based on a project or idea around the following themes: Climate Change and Human Health; Climate Change, Water Conservation and Food Security; and Solid Waste Management and Climate Change.

To be eligible for this subsidy, all applicants must be between thirteen (13) and twenty-seven (27) years old.

Shortlisted candidates should be prepared to attend an interview between 31 July and 25 August 2023 with the Ashley Lashley Foundation's Evaluation Committee, where candidates must present their project or idea. Three projects will be selected and awarded a grant of US$ 2500.

The winners of the HEY Global Climate Fund 2023 must become ambassadors under the HEY campaign.

Applications

Passionate individuals are encouraged to enrol in any of the following subject areas:

Climate Change and Human Health

This theme allows candidates to propose technologies, projects and/or initiatives that focus on the interrelationship between the impacts and threats of climate change on human health, as well as their mitigation and/or resolution.

Climate Change, Water Conservation and Food Security

This theme allows applicants to propose technologies, projects and/or initiatives that focus on water conservation (increasing water catchment capacity, water availability or accessibility) and/or improving food security (or self-sufficiency) in a city, state, country or region.

Solid Waste Management and Climate Change

This theme allows candidates to propose technologies, projects and/or initiatives that focus on the interrelationship between inadequate waste disposal practices, ineffective solid waste management and the impacts and threats of climate change on human well-being and productivity, as well as approaches to mitigation and/or resolution.

This fund is open globally and is extended to countries that are part of the following regions:

• Asia-Pacific
• Africa
• Caribbean
• Europe
• Latin America
• North America

The deadline for submitting all applications is 17 July 2023.

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