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11/06/2026

📣 Our 2025 Impact Report is out!

The work that changes lives rarely makes the news. A conversation in a classroom. An early warning that arrives in time. A door that opens for someone who’d been shut out.

All of these moments added up to something we could have never done alone: 13.3 million lives positively impacted.

That's our 2025 in a single figure. And it took communities, partners, colleagues and local organizations all moving toward the same goal. Thank you to everyone who works alongside us.

This is what we can do together. And we're just getting started!

Read the 2025 Impact Report https://www.zurich.foundation/impact-report-2025

09/06/2026

As a child, Noris Moreno Rojas didn’t have many books, she read the ones others discarded.

She believed her future could be different and had determination to overcome barriers many of us never experience.

Today, she is part of our Global Changemaker program and is helping young people build confidence, skills, and new opportunities through her work.

As Noris puts it: “I needed to do something.” That decision changed the course of her life and the lives of young people around her.

Read her story and be inspired by what you can do ⬇️

15/05/2026

A lot of young people have learned to say “I’m fine”, even when they’re exhausted, overwhelmed, anxious or lonely. Too many are facing pressure and uncertainty without enough support around them.

So where do we start? By listening. In this film from UNICEF Indonesia, young people share what keeps them going. Their advice is honest, practical and familiar: talk to someone you trust, spend time offline, do something that energizes you.

What actions can you take today?
- Check in with a young person.
- Make time for an open conversation.
- Help make mental wellbeing something we talk about before it becomes a crisis.

Learn more about Thriving Together, our global partnership with UNICEF to improve youth mental wellbeing https://www.zurich.foundation/mental-wellbeing/global-program-with-unicef

12/05/2026

More than half a million students are learning with better support using technology built by Norah Kimathi.

Her work has earned the Young Engineer Woman Award at Hannover Messe. Norah is a robotics engineer and co‑founder of Zerobionic Africa.

Her work has a clear purpose: using engineering to make learning more inclusive. The humanoid, AI‑powered robotic system she developed translates spoken language into sign language almost instantly, allowing students to follow lessons in real time.

Already in use in schools across several countries, the technology helps deaf and hard of hearing students take part fully in STEM education. By 2025, it had reached more than 510,000 students, with over 8,000 teachers using the system. Early pilots show STEM understanding improving by up to 70 percent, helping students build confidence, skills, and new possibilities for the future.

The technology is designed for the realities of everyday classrooms. The robots work offline and can be used where internet access and infrastructure are limited. Zerobionic Africa also prioritizes sustainability, using recycled materials to reduce production waste by 90 percent and lower hardware costs by more than 60 percent, making the solution easier to scale and reach more communities.

Norah’s work shows what inclusive engineering can achieve. Through our Global Changemakers Program, we support young leaders like Norah who understand their communities and turn local challenges into opportunities for others to succeed.

Congratulations, Norah, on this well‑deserved achievement.

30/04/2026

There’s a paradox many young people face at the start of their careers.
You need experience to get hired, but you need a job to get experience.

Today, many entry‑level roles require three or more years of experience and at the same time, technology is reshaping the labor market. Skills that were optional just a few years ago quickly become baseline expectations, raising the bar for those entering the workforce.

These challenges are not felt equally. Young people from underserved communities are often the most affected, with fewer opportunities to gain experience, build networks or access guidance.

Together with JA Worldwide, we support young people with practical learning and mentorship that reflect local labor market realities and help them build skills that keep pace with change.

This work now spans 31 countries across six JA regions, adapting to very different contexts. In some places, young people are building entrepreneurial and financial skills to start their own income streams. In others, they are gaining digital and employability skills aligned with fast‑changing industries, or connecting directly with mentors and employers who can help them navigate their first step into work.

Find out how this collaboration is helping make that first step into work more achievable.
➡️ https://www.jaworldwide.org/news/building-resilient-futures-with-zzf

28/04/2026

Mental wellbeing is a core part of safety and health at work.

Each year, 45 million healthy life years are lost due to psychosocial risks at work (ILO, 2026), these are years lived in good physical and mental health.

As Gen Z enters the workforce with record levels of stress and burnout, they’re raising an important question: what can be done? The article highlights how isolation and limited support are driving burnout among young people. A preventative approach that strengthens connection and support can help protect mental wellbeing before stress takes a toll.

🔗 https://theconversation.com/gen-z-is-burning-out-at-work-more-than-any-other-generation-heres-why-and-what-can-be-done-270237

23/04/2026

Women inventors have always shaped technology, even when their contributions went unseen.

Breaking the stigma around girls and women in tech is about role models, access, confidence and early encouragement. That’s why we work with organizations such as AjTyvIT in Slovakia, alongside a wider network. By opening doors to technology education and challenging stereotypes about who belongs in tech, these initiatives help create real opportunities for girls to explore and learn.

Girls in ICT Day reminds us that closing the gender gap in innovation starts early, in classrooms, communities, and in the signals we send about who can be an inventor, a coder or a tech leader. Through Girl’s Day, students step inside tech companies for a hands‑on look at what working in tech can really mean, turning curiosity into confidence and ideas into possibilities.

02/04/2026

“I’ve been put in front of a classroom multiple times to be ridiculed and laughed at.”

Gabriel’s experience shows how stigma around autism can impact mental health. Now, as a Youth Advisor, he is using his lived experience to co-create tools that help schools understand autistic pupils better.

Read his full story: https://www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/blog/how-misunderstandings-and-stigma-around-autism-can-impact-mental-health.

Small changes make a big difference.

Explore the free, award-winning Autistic and OK toolkit for UK secondary schools ⬇️
https://www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk/what-we-do/services/i-am-an-autistic-young-person/wellbeing-toolkits/autistic-and-ok

Developed by Ambitious about Autism with support from Z Zurich Foundation, Zurich Insurance UK and Zurich Community Trust

11/03/2026

Healing after a crisis doesn’t always start in a therapy room. Sometimes it begins with a cup of tea, a conversation, or a creative activity that helps someone express what they are carrying.

In communities affected by the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes, these moments can help people rebuild a sense of emotional safety - an essential but often unseen part of recovery.

We are working with Needs Map and Zurich Türkiye through the Side by Side Project, bringing mental health and psychosocial support into familiar community spaces.

What began here is an approach that can be adapted and scaled for communities facing crisis anywhere.

Watch this film to learn more.

This film was produced for the Z Zurich Foundation and Zurich Insurance Group Türkiye by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions.

06/03/2026

“That night kept coming back to me.”

For countless people in Türkiye, the 2023 earthquakes didn’t end with rescue. What came after - the sleepless nights, fear, and grief - was another crisis.

There's a crucial piece to recovery that is overlooked in disasters and their aftermath.

But in this story is a turning point. A project that started as support for professionals evolved into a wide-reaching program helping responders, volunteers, survivors and their families.

This is a first glimpse into the people behind that work - and the communities rebuilding their lives.

Coming soon: The unseen emergency after a disaster

Explore the series, now streaming on BBC.com
https://www.bbc.com/storyworks/specials/healthier-together/

This film was produced for the Z Zurich Foundation and Zurich Türkiye by StoryWorks Commercial Productions

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