Articles by Charles Tsai
Charles Tsai is the co-founder and Executive Director of Global Youth Fund, the first democratic charity for youth. Charles also works for Ashoka's Youth Venture as Director of Global Media Strategy and Virtual Program. A journalist and filmmaker, Charles has reported and produced for CNN and PBS.
Every year, more than 300 million pieces of electronics - computers, cell phones, all kinds of gadgets - are SCRAPPED.
Whether they’re burned or dumped, they leak harmful toxins into the environment, contaminating our water, land and air.
Alex Lin, 14, installed the first ever e-waste receptacle in …
Instant Grant Program from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.
Where do artists get financial support? Often, they apply for grants that take months to get approved.
Some students in New York decided there could be a better way …
A star athlete at his school, Bo Palmer of Vancouver, Canada has seen his share of accolades.
But his recent awards are for Triple-S, an organization he started to support students in sports.
The idea is simple: round up athletic gear that people …
Unable to afford school fees, William Kamkwamba, 14, dropped out of secondary school in Malawi and taught himself to make a windmill from scratch.
His invention generated more than just clean energy for his village (which never had power), …
This fall, Global Youth Fund is pleased to offer a unique challenge to FOUR schools in the Vancouver-Lower Mainland area: form a group of 20 youth and use GYF’s bottom-up democratic process to select a …
In December 2007, students at Somers High School in upstate New York used Global Youth Fund’s demoractic process to select a global campaign for their school for 2008.
They chose Building Hope: One School at a …
Purpose:
To spread peace, kindness and joy… especially to strangers.
Background:
We all know about the power of simple kindness. But there’s power too in random kindness. That’s kindness shown to people when they least expect it, and …
Purpose:
To use specially trained rats to detect and remove landmines, which harm or kill one person every 20 minutes.
Background:
More than 70 million landmines are still in the ground in at least 60 countries, posing great …
How to convey the vision and idealism of Global Youth Fund?
Perhaps this promo video – with its quiet but powerfully eloquent message – is a great place to start. Enjoy!
Directed by Marc Webb
by Megan, 17, USA
The summer before ninth grade, I starved myself. I starved myself to the point that I was diagnosed with anorexia. I had every single symptom. But the scariest part of it is …
by Chawapol Fahumnuayphol, 22, Ireland
“You will remain in Ireland longer for what? Volunteering for homeless people is such a waste of time. You should think more for your future.”
That was what my Dad told me …
by Miranda Fix, 19, USA
There is an old folktale about a father who teaches his sons a lesson by asking them to break an individual chopstick, which they do without any trouble.
He then gathers a …
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by Kit, 17, Canada
I live in a town with beautiful sunsets. The sea comes up and caresses the coast and the sun sinks over the mountains across the ocean.
I …
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by Farid Firmanysah, 19, Canada
It happened four years ago when I was in Indonesia. Like usual, I had to live my ordinary life: wake up in the morning, …
