Shiza Hirani, Youth Advisor to a Canadian Senator and a International Youth Ambassador for Sustainable Improvement Aim #4 (High quality Training), has just lately been awarded the distinguished “RCE Saskatchewan Training for Sustainable Improvement Recognition Award” from the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, Canada. The award was offered in recognition of Shiza’s excellent efforts to advance the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs) by way of her youth-driven initiative “Youth MentorNet Café”.
Through the occasion, Shiza was in a position to current her mission, Youth MentorNet Café, to the Governor and the gathered viewers, highlighting how the initiative fosters youth empowerment, instructional sustainability, and group wellbeing. The mission particularly helps highschool college students, many from marginalized and underrepresented backgrounds—who usually face obstacles associated to psychological well being, monetary stress, and entry to post-secondary alternatives. By serving to college students navigate advanced scholarship types, monetary literacy, and mentorship, Youth MentorNet Café addresses key social determinants of well being, significantly for younger girls and gender-diverse youth.
Shiza’s work aligns nicely with the Girls’s Well being Analysis Cluster’s mission to enhance girls’s well being, and contribute to more healthy, extra equitable futures for all. To remain up to date on her work, go to her LinkedIn profile and cluster web page.
