Did you say Limitless?

In 2020, one of the most significant health challenges of recent times emerged in Covid-19. It deeply impacted every aspect of our daily life and, as usual, vulnerable communities were the most affected. Multiple lockdowns generated emotional, social, and economic issues, it also created a narrative that often painted young people as helping to spread the virus.

In 2021, the IFRC Limitless Youth Innovation Academy was designed with a capability-building approach to identify young innovators with ideas and build a support system for them. Over 1,000 young volunteers from 72 countries were part of Limitless.

All the Ideas

With an innovative multimedia production platform available in 17 languages, we reached people from low-resource environments.

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Among these, 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent teams have received specialized mentoring and extra funding to develop their prototypes.

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50+ experts in user experience, product design, innovation, and prototyping acted as mentors, trainers, and facilitators for the volunteers.

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Young people can have a real influence when given the opportunity to do good. Hundreds of youth innovators have powerful impact stories to tell us.

The Winners

After a year-long innovation journey, we are pleased to announce the final winners of the IFRC Limitless Youth Innovation Academy.

About Limitless

Official Launch

31 May 2021 – The first-ever IFRC Youth Innovation Academy is open to applications

Start of Phase 1

June – July 2021 – Webinars, inspirations and training for all participants

Start of Phase 2

13 September 2021 – 333 innovations are selected to be part of the Academy

Final Stage

19 June 2022 – The 10 winning initiatives are presented at the Red Cross Red Crescent Statutory Meetings

Mike Laster, Cyber Limitless initiative, Kenya.

“Thanks to Limitless, I became a project officer for my own project at a young age. I’m a changemaker”

Esther, Girl and teenage mothers empowerment project, Uganda.

“Dont wait for a girl to become a woman before you can empower them, one life skill can change lives”

Arthur, Girl and teenage mothers empowerment project, Uganda.

“Every girl has the right to safe , healthy and happy periods”

Farah, Digital Campaign project, Indonesia

“Digitalization allows many people, especially the youth, to be more connected and extraordinarily creative. Awareness and better values are spread through digital youth campaigns.”

Angellita, Digital Campaign project, Indonesia

“Let’s connect our social media with positive vibes”

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Read the Stories

Limitless wins 2022 Global Good Award – Monash Action Lab + IFRC Solferino Academy

Nov 1, 2022

Participants of Limitless were invited to create short-form videos outlining the challenges they faced in their communities, their proposed solutions and resources required. Through Action Translate, these videos were able to be translated into 17 languages – enabling worldwide distribution.

“We trained 120 farmers from 15 different communities how to make organic fertilisers, and they are now training other members of their communities!”

Sep 25, 2022

I started out searching for a solution on how to help members of my local community overcome the hunger crises brought about by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. I wanted to help farmers with a more cost-effective way of farming, of which the long term benefit would cut across their personal health and the environment at large.

“How can we create synergy between innovation, technology, public health, and building a better community?”

Sep 25, 2022

We asked ourselves what we could do differently to make an impact, and it was here that the idea of DOMPI was born: a synergy between innovation, technology, public health and the quest to continue building ever stronger communities free from violence and capable of cultivating emotional, physical and family wellbeing.