Digital Opportunity Trust

10/09/2026

Turning Youth Leadership into Career Opportunity! We have equipped 30 from Zanzibar with the confidence, skills, and networks to navigate the world of work and make informed choices about their futures.

Through the Project, implemented by Pamoja Youth Initiative in collaboration with Digital Opportunity Trust and the Mastercard Foundation, Youth Leaders strengthened their ability to communicate their strengths, identify pathways aligned with their aspirations, build meaningful connections, and turn their leadership experience into clear personal goals.

🌱 The impact goes beyond the workshop. Young leaders are better prepared to pursue employment, internships, fellowships, entrepreneurship, volunteering, and further learning, while positioning themselves to compete with confidence and purpose. We are supporting a generation to recognise their potential, take ownership of their futures, and turn their skills into meaningful livelihoods.

10/09/2026

Young people are already leading climate action in their communities. Now it's your turn to get the tools, skills, and support to take action where you live.

Join DOT's Climate Leadership for Community Action course — a 6-week, fully virtual program covering:
🌱 Understanding climate challenges
💡 Designing local solutions
📣 Mobilizing your community
🤝 Connecting with peers across Africa and the Middle East
🎓 A certificate upon completion

Don't miss your chance to join Cohort 3! Enroll now: https://learn.dotrust.org/mod/page/view.php?id=2728

10/02/2026

Are you passionate about the climate and creating change in your community?

DOT’s Climate Leadership for Community Action course is a free, virtual, 6 week learning experience designed to help young people build the knowledge, tools, and confidence to lead local climate action.

Don't miss your chance to join Cohort 3! Click here to register: https://learn.dotrust.org/mod/page/view.php?id=2728

09/04/2026

Any dream you have, you can achieve! Across Malawi, Tanzania, Côte d'Ivoire, and Zambia, thousands of young entrepreneurs are gaining the skills, confidence, and community they need to build businesses that last — trained by peers who have walked the same path.

Click here to read Fortune, Veronica, Sarah, and Solange's stories
🔗 https://dotrust.org/any-dream-you-have-you-can-achieve/

Going Beyond is a five-year collaboration between DOT and the Mastercard Foundation, empowering over 300,000 youths — particularly young women — across Africa to lead transformational change. With thanks to the implementing partners behind these stories — Life Concern - Malawi, Songambele Tanzania, Dynamiques et Excellentes d'Afrique, and Avencion — four of the forty implementing partners powering the Going Beyond network.

08/12/2026

08/12/2026

Sukurat has run Noble Catering and Party Consultant in Lagos, learning her craft as a child and building a business through skill and persistence alone. Through the Indigenous Apprenticeship to Work Programme, implemented by NerdzFactory and Research Links under the Mastercard Foundation Employee Innovation Fund in partnership with Digital Opportunity Trust, she was formally certified through Nigeria's Recognition of Prior Learning framework. Today, she mentors apprentices from the program, passing on her craft and the professional practices that have strengthened her business along the way.

She's one of 201 MasterCrafters certified in Lagos, 186 of them women, proving that recognition can transform how people are seen by their customers, communities, and themselves.

On International Youth Day, we're honouring mentors like Sukurat, and the young people being trained, who show real courage by choosing to learn a trade, commit to it, and build a future through it.

Click here to read Sukurat's full story: https://dotrust.org/the-certificate-she-had-always-deserved-sukurats-story/



The Employee Innovation Fund is an employee-led initiative of the Mastercard Foundation that empowers employees to propose and implement innovative projects addressing community challenges. With a focus on youth engagement, technology integration, and continuous learning, the Fund supports bold, high-potential ideas led by African and Indigenous youth-led organizations. In collaboration with Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT), the Employee Innovation Fund advances inclusive innovation, strengthens youth and women-led organizations, and accelerates transformative change.

08/12/2026

From barbershop to business owner, one plate at a time 🍽️

After losing his income when a business closed, Daudi turned to a lifelong passion: cooking. Through the Culinary Pathways Initiative, implemented by Krusty Krab Limited under the Mastercard Foundation's Employee Innovation Fund in partnership with Digital Opportunity Trust, he completed culinary training, an internship, and co-founded a school canteen in Katwe with fellow participant, Natasha. Today, he sits on the committee of the program's SACCO, helping other young people save, invest, and build their own paths forward.

On International Youth Day, we're celebrating the Daudis of the world: young people turning skills into livelihoods, and livelihoods into leadership.

Click here to read the full story: https://dotrust.org/cooking-up-opportunity-how-daudi-rebuilt-his-livelihood-through-culinary-training/

The Employee Innovation Fund is an employee-led initiative of the Mastercard Foundation that empowers employees to propose and implement innovative projects addressing community challenges. With a focus on youth engagement, technology integration, and continuous learning, the Fund supports bold, high-potential ideas led by African and Indigenous youth-led organizations. In collaboration with Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT), the Employee Innovation Fund advances inclusive innovation, strengthens youth and women-led organizations, and accelerates transformative change.

08/10/2026

Young people are already leading climate action in their communities. Now it’s your turn to get the tools, skills, and support to take action where you live.

Join DOT’s Climate Leadership for Community Action course — a 6-week, fully virtual program covering:
🌱 Understanding climate challenges
💡 Designing local solutions
📣 Mobilizing your community
🤝 Connecting with peers across Africa and the Middle East
🎓 A certificate upon completion

Registration closes TODAY, August 10. Don’t miss your chance to join Cohort 2! https://learn.dotrust.org/mod/page/view.php?id=2728

08/04/2026

💚 The deadline for cohort 2 registration has been extended to August 10th! 💚

DOT’s Climate Leadership for Community Action virtual course is a free, six-week learning experience designed to help young people build the knowledge, tools, and confidence to lead local climate action.

Here's what you'll walk away with:
-An understanding of climate science, climate justice, and sustainable development
-Hands-on experience with DOT's Participatory Action Research approach to build community-led solutions
-Direct mentorship from Ambassadors
-A network of youth climate leaders across Africa and the Middle East
-A certificate to show for it

No prior climate experience is required — just your commitment to making a difference. Registration closes August 10, 2026.
Register today: https://learn.dotrust.org/mod/page/view.php?id=2728

07/31/2026

From building confidence to creating opportunities for others, the impact of Going Beyond's Youth Leadership Program extends far beyond the classroom.

Meet Chrispin, Victoria, Grace, and Neuilly—four Youth Leader alumni whose journeys show how investing in young people creates a ripple effect of positive change. Through peer-to-peer learning, they have gained the skills, confidence, and leadership experience to transform not only their own futures, but also the lives of the young people and communities they serve.

Their stories remind us that when young people are trusted to lead, they become catalysts for lasting change.

Read their inspiring stories: https://dotrust.org/sharing-knowledge-shaping-futures/

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