Youth Uplift Challenge
Over 115,000 students in 28 countries made 290,000+ hands for the Youth Uplift Challenge. For every hand you made and sent in, the Bezos Family Foundation donated $1.90—up to $500,000—to Save the Children’s programs empowering youth in Nicaragua and Indonesia to rise into a life they dream for themselves.
Get Your Students Engaged
400,000 million youth around the world live in poverty.
Around the world young people are growing up in extreme poverty. More than 400,000 million young people live on less than $1.90 a day. Growing up in poverty means these young people often don’t have access to good schools or safe places to learn.
Students reached out their hands and made a difference.
Young people around the world created nearly 300,000 paper hands which the Bezos Family Foundation matched with a donation to Save the Children to help young people in Nicaragua and Indonesia start their own small businesses. Hands were painted, collaged, knit, even 3D! Although each hand was unique, they connected us together and to young people around the world who are working hard for their dreams.
2,000 young people in Nicaragua and Indonesia received job training.
In Nicaragua and Indonesia, young people received job training, start-up funds, and mentorship to help them live into their dreams. One young woman started a business selling chicken eggs; another group of siblings started making and selling candy. In addition to supporting students in starting their own businesses, your support trained 40 teachers in Indonesia to provide financial literacy education to thousands of youth.
How It Works
Students Rebuild empowers young people ages 5-25 to take direct action and see firsthand how they
can make a difference. The project is adaptable and can be scaled from a single lesson to a full year. We
provide free resources to help you teach within whatever time and space you have.
1. Sign Up
Educators or youth leaders sign up their group or class for the project.
2. Explore
Use our free resources to teach students about the issue.
3. Create
Select a creative medium – visual art, writing, performance, digital media, or STEM – and have students express their ideas, thoughts, and solutions.
4. Share
Submit students’ work. Each creative work or student engaged unlocks a $5 donation to global charities, up to $1M.
5. Impact
Creative submissions help raise funds for local and global solutions.
Types Of Creative Work Accepted
Literary Arts (Short stories, essays, and poetry), Performing Arts (Dance, theater, and music), Media Arts (PSAs, films, and videos), Media Arts (PSAs, films, and videos), Visual Arts (Graphic design, drawings, paintings, photography, and memes), STEM (Robotics, digital design, and games)
Help Youth Uplift Challenge
Help us reach our goal of raising $1M for . These organizations are working on the ground to care for the air, land, and water around us.
$400,000
Raised of $400,000 goal
295,484
Creative expressions
112,630
Youth engaged
Learn more about the partner organizations these funds are helping support.
See what students are creating around the world
Use this map to find other teams participating in the project — the pins show where teams created their works of creative expression. Click the icons to learn how the programs you helped fund are making a difference.
Frequently Asked Questions
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