YECAN AWARD 2025

The Young Environment and Climate Action Network (YECAN) Award 2025  
  An Initiative of Salama Heritage Ecovillage (SHE) Africa Ltd and AbibiNsroma Foundation (ANF), Eastern and Southern Africa Secretariat- Kigali Rwanda   Deadline of Application, Wednesday,  November 20th, 2024 (Africa Industrialization Day)  
Introduction:  
  ​ Applications are open for the Young Environment and Climate Action Network (YECAN) Award 2025. The YECAN Award 2025 is a flagship youth engagement initiative of Salama Heritage Ecovillage (SHE) Africa Ltd and AbibiNsroma Foundation (ANF), Eastern and Southern Africa Secretariat in Kigali, Rwanda. This Award will be bestowed annually to ambitious young people around the East African Community (EAC) Partner States with outstanding and innovative ideas to protect, manage, conserve and restore the environment around East African rural and urban communities.   

Humans are using an equivalent of 1.6 Planet Earth, to maintain an unstable way of life and nature cannot cope with this unsustainable lifestyle. Our oceans (Atlantic and Indian) are drowning in plastics, our rivers are very polluted, our forests are burning out and our farmlands are drying out. Through the YECAN 2025 Award, SHE Africa Ltd, AbibiNsroma Foundation (ANF) and partners seek to promote environment and climate action by Young People across the East African Community (EAC).  
Why The YECAN AWARD 2025?
We are looking for young change makers with path breaking innovative ideas and solutions that showcases nature’s potential in addressing the triple planetary crisis of Climate Change (CC), Biodiversity Loss (BL) and Environmental Pollution and Waste (EP). By Monday, March 3rd, 2025, during the celebration of the African Environment Day/Wangari Maathai Day (a way to raise awareness of the pressing environmental challenges facing the African Continent), the Young Environment and Climate Action Network (YECAN) Award will select one winner from each of the East African Community (EAC) Partner State.   
Benefits of The YECAN AWARD 2025!
Each winner will receive;

• Mentorship capacity building workshop to YECAN community of experts
• An introduction to dignitaries at the YECAN Award ceremony in Kigali Rwanda
• Publicity and recognition through media interviews and online across East Africa, Africa and Worldwide
• USD 5,000 in seed-funding