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"Does your Community Need Changemakers?"

Think about it. "Do you ever look around and feel like your community could use some positive change?" Almost everyone says yes. From starving children on street corners, to preventable actions that harm our planet, there really are challenges everywhere and being a leader, a changemaker, means believing that maybe, just maybe, you could be a part of the change your community needs.

But how exactly do you do that? Where do you begin? Who do work with? How do you come up with impact-driven solutions? How do you utilize resources - and align your work with global policy agendas like the SDGs?
This is why we've created a guidebook - to help you take that first step, provide you with the most actionable steps and teach you what to do in becoming the kind of changemaker your community needs.
Seun Olagunju-Lana
Author

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In this Guidebook, You'll Find:

Actionable Steps

By practicing the steps in the book, you'll be drafting your initial project directly targeting a challenge within your community and aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.

Interesting Stories

Find real and inspiring stories of young changemakers - just like you - to help you see that the idea of starting your changemaking journey, right from where you are, is totally within reach.

Interactive Exercises

It's recommended that you read your guide with a pen because there are interactive exercises in every chapter to help you assemble your learnings into one, solid changemaking idea.

Illustrative Chapters

What's better than a regular guidebook? One that pairs actionable insights with clear, relatable content, enriched by captivating illustrations that bring your learning to life.

New

"My Community Needs Changemakers" is now available in e-version.

Go digital and access your guidebook from anywhere in the world today!
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Raising Changemakers: Project 100

Our communities need change makers and we want to raise them early. Would you like to join us in raising a new crop of young people who:
- Get to learn that they are not young to make an impact?
- Will gain the knowledge needed to champion solutions to Africa's development challenges, right from secondary school?
- Will be raised as change makers, leading their communities towards sustainable growth?
HERE IS HOW

“You carry things more profound than your physical appearance, socioeconomic background, or the number of followers you have on social media. You have a brain. You have a purpose for which you’ve been created. You have the capacity to innovate and create great things. You can dare to try new things, fail at them, make mistakes, learn from them and try again. The light you carry has been given to meet a need the world has, and if ever there was a time to begin to shine, the time is now.”

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Meet the Author

Seun Olagunju-Lana started her changemaking journey with nothing but a desire to help an orphanage in her community replace their doors and carpets. She studied English Language at the Obafemi Awolowo University - and yet, with no formal education about sustainable development, made the decision to dedicate her career to helping communities in Africa solve their development challenges.

Since that first changemaking act, she has actively engaged with organisations like the office of the Vice-President in Nigeria, UNDP, Peace First, TheirWorld, among others, to design forward-thinking developmental initiatives for youths across African countries. She has disbursed over $43,000 to fund youth-led social innovations and impacted more than 4,000 beneficiaries through direct programming across various communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. She founded the Development School to incubate more young changemakers who are also leading their communities towards sustainable growth and has received several recognitions for her work globally. You can find her on Instagram here: @seunolagunju and on Linkedin: Seun Olagunju-Lana.
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