ITS Foundation UNITAR YAAPP 2022

Graduation day - hybrid pitch event hosted by Microsoft

Graduation day was hosted by Microsoft at their Experience Centre at Cyberport. Hong Kong based ambassadors pitched in-person to the room and overseas participants pitched virtually. Once again feedback came from expert judges and this time from previous Ambassadors. The UNITAR Hiroshima office was able to dial in and observe and awards were again made by the audience via online voting.

The 2022 projects were (Click the green names for more info):

Award Winners:

For Presentation - Sena Chang, Healthify Japan
For Inclusion - Christy Lee, HelloooBetter!
For Innovation - Sahil Harjani, Captuart
For Impact - Audrey Yuen, You Canto records

Top prizes:

Potential: NQ, Braingym
Imagine: Bryan Chiu, Design Your Life at 25

2022 Ambassador achievements post programme:

• Agastya Singh is raising money for charity to tackle SDG 1, 2 and 3 through a youth-run football tournament. He has won a 8000HKD grant from the American Club to do so.
• Bryan Chiu's initiative Design Your Life at 25 has won a $3000 Kids4kids sponsorship, has been featured on StartMeUpHK festival and Global Goals Week. Bryan has also been featured as the youth panelist in HK SDG Summit and currently has 300 signups from 13 different countries for his program.
• Clarisse Poon has won the Hong Kong Playground Association Outstanding Teen Award.
• Cody Cheung has continued to develop his initiative FashionZ through the ITS YCI Programme.
• Feiru Ma has received a Certificate of Recognition from the Syrian Embassy in Japan in December 2022 for her collaboration with the embassy to deliver stationary to rural schools in Syria. She has also raised over 2000 USD for first aid relief for the Syria-Turkey Earthquakes.
• Lavina Lo has not only become a UN Youth Ambassador but is also representing her school as one of the student ambassadors for the organization TASS (The Alliance of Sustainable Schools). Her mission is to make her school more sustainable by reviewing and changing aspects of the buses, uniforms and food.
• Natalie Cheung organized and ran Hong Kong's first youth-led mental health summit in May 2023, which featured discussions and workshops by mental health experts and various local organizations. She was also a youth panelist at the 2023 SDG Summit.
• Saloni Sethi organized a Turkey-Syria fundraiser in her school and raised 15,000 HKD. She also did a fundraiser for her school charity and raised the school’s target of 70,000 HKD.