EMpower’s Journey Around the World

EMpower (The Emerging Markets Foundation) is launching Journey Around the World, a £1.5m online appeal to benefit marginalised youth.  Participants will collectively travel 25,000 virtual miles and donate 250,000 minutes to cover the distance between all 15 emerging market countries in which the foundation supports young people. The economic impacts of COVID-19 are having devastating effects on young people in emerging markets, from the slums in Mumbai to the townships in South Africa: food insecurity is rising, schooling derailed, and trends of child marriage and child labour increasing in response…

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