Youth Voices Count is glad to welcome November with a fabulous update in our IGNITE! Empowerment Grants programme. The IGNITE! Empowerment Grants was founded and first launched back in December 2019. Until today, it intends to provide seed grants to youth-led LGBTIQ organizations and initiatives from the Asia-Pacific region.

We would like to send our warm congratulations to the second round grantees of Youth Voices Count’s IGNITE! Empowerment Grants. To help assess the candidates for the second round of IGNITE!, we revisited some of the notable and exemplary applications from the first round. Taking into account the selection committee comments from the first round and the overall scores, we were able to select our next set of grantees.

For this second round, our grantees from Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore, India, and Nepal will receive financial and technical support from Youth Voices Count to implement their projects for LGBTIQ youth.

As the safety of our partners is our prime concern, we are working closely with them to identify the most feasible and effective way to implement their projects amidst the current global health emergency.

Get to know our second round IGNITE! Empowerment Grants recipients. Read more via YVC