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Luke founded Rusty Recycle Art, as a Year 8 student while participating in the $20 Boss program at his school. Rusty Recycle Art is a social enterprise that repurposes metal waste, such as old tools and garden furniture, and turns it into sculptural art pieces. Luke designs and welds every single product, and sells them at local nurseries, markets and …
In 2019, Young Change Agents partnered with the NSW Government Department of Family & Community Services to deliver a youth incubator (YINC) focused on youth mental health. The project supported Young Change Agents alumni from across NSW to launch a product-based social enterprise.The social enterprises all had a common social purpose – youth mental health. The project enabled participants to …
PHOTO — MBA students and young entrepreneurs from the B.K.Shroff College of Arts (associated with the University of Mumbai). With Margaret O’Brien, CEO Young Change Agents, Ben Marcos, COO Seventh St Ventures, and Dr Anthony Jensen, Cojoint Lecturer of the Business School at the University of Newcastle. Dr Jensen coordinated the students’ visit from India as part of an international social entrepreneurship summer …
Life lessons from YINC. More so than ever, it is incredibly important for young people to be empowered to make an impact on the world. The current state of global affairs: school shootings in America, deforestation in the Amazon and gendered violence in Australia — to name just a few — is somewhat dismal. Radical social change is both necessary …
Seeing the Young Change Agents program through the eyes of a young person. As a young person, it is often easy to forget that your voice deserves to be heard. The wildly imaginative aspirations of our early childhood are so soon stamped out by an urgent, oppressive need to be ‘realistic’, brought about at the same time as the acne …
