The little girl in frilly white socks speaks confidently into the microphone as her classmates stand behind her on stage. 

For more than 20 years, GCERF Grant Finance Specialist Julien Montoux, has worked to redress the inequality he first witnessed up close in Guatemala. What struck the French social sciences student

A.T.* is a clinical psychologist who counsels families returning to Albania from conflict zones, particularly from refugee camps in northeast Syria.

Zara*, a 31-year-old mother of five seems happy to meet. She says she used to be shy and uncomfortable around new people, but now that has changed. For the past

Mama Mwaka* is a 50-year old resident of Likoni, Kenya. Identified as a victim of extremism after the 2014 attack on Likoni church by Al-Shabaab, she participated in the Safe

Haïfa and Abir dropped out of school at a young age due to social and financial difficulties. Like other women in their neighbourhoods, they did not have much to do.

Seeing Ousmane Koné dance, controlling his movements with the grace of a bird, there’s little to hint at the hardship the 29 year-old has overcome. Now, a professional dancer training

To follow Milwida Guevara’s career, through primary school teaching, federal politics in the Philippines and as an economist for the UN, is to inch ever closer the people she set

Tersoo, an only child who lost his father at age of 3, is from Adikpo in Kwande Local Government in Nigeria. As a teenager, Tersoo found himself in an environment driven

Like many of her peers, Mira’s dreams for a better future became clouded by the poverty of her circumstances growing up. Around her, she saw malnutrition, abandoned houses and unfinished

Like many of their peers, young Tunisians are fond of social media and YouTube. However, surfing the internet can turn out to be a perilous activity when you do not

When reporting a crime, few would expect to be put behind bars themselves. But this was how many young people in Kenya’s Kamukunji sub-county felt when the relationship between police and

Even during the pandemic, Arizul,* 18, and his friends Khairul,* Sohel* and Razu* regularly attended the local mosque in Khulna City Corporation, Bangladesh, to pray. The devout young man felt inspired

When the woman woke up, she was in an unfamiliar setting, deep in the forest. The last recollection she had was accepting a soft drink. This is a story that

GCERF recognised quickly that the spread of COVID-19 threatened to erode hard-worn gains made against the drivers of radicalisation. Young people were spending more time online, heightening their susceptibility to

Journalist Adelina Ahmeti, 24, sees it as a social responsibility to report fairly on violent extremism. The reporter for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network was awarded an annual award for

“Close your eyes for a second,” says Moctar Kané, the 28-year-old GCERF Country Manager for Mali, Sahel and Somalia. “Imagine sitting in a community in Mali, you hear birds singing,

Khuzaimah Mangatem, 28, from the Philippines’ south, has made a life of putting people on the map. She knows from experience how it feels to be unrepresented. As a young

Artist Sahan Islam,* 25, never imagined that he would be celebrated among his peers at Dhaka University. The Masters of Fine Arts student in the department of drawing, had never