From Ideas to Action: What Young Women Built with the Cedar Prize
An idea is easy to have. Turning one into something useful for other people is much harder. That was the challenge behind the Cedar Prize Social Impact Competition , a collaboration between CedarRise Initiative for Human Development and Uzommiri Study Centre created to give female undergraduates an opportunity to take their ideas beyond the classroom. Under the theme “Think, Act, Impact” and the broader concept TerraVerde — Where Dreams Grow , five multidisciplinary teams developed project proposals addressing challenges connected to the Sustainable Development Goals. Three teams— BELAH Impact, Magenta Heart and Team RISE —made it to the final stage, where they were required to put their ideas into practice. And that is where the competition became more than a competition. Three ideas, three different approaches BELAH Impact took its project, Achi Rise 2025 , to Achi, Enugu State, combining healthcare, education and women's empowerment. More than 125 people received free medica...