Impact stories

The 20 years old Yasmin Victoria Campos Fernandez from Lima, Peru, is LALA’s Alumni Coordinator for Operations. She studies Social Psychology at Universidad Tecnológica del Perú (UTP) and loves working in Education because it is the basis upon which everything is built. Furthermore, she is currently working at LALA in a critical role within the

LALA is made up of young people who seek to make a difference in their communities and make a positive impact on the world. Among them is Juliana Janot, who inspires by the way of facing the world around her and since a very young age has been engaged in social initiatives in her community.

Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Sergipe, Alagoas, Recife, Maranhão, Rondônia and Roraima. Half of the state deputies in the north-northeast region of Brazil have heard her strong name: Talyta França, Girl Up leader in Natal, has been crossing borders with her bill against menstrual poverty. And she promises this is just the beginning! Through communication,

She was only 14 when she transformed her biggest passion into her life’s mission. Today, at 17 years old and recently selected as a young leader by Ashoka Young Changemakers, the student Luiza Fontes has been transforming lives through literature in her city – Belo Horizonte – and its surroundings. Her love for reading began

Originally from Pernambuco, in the northeast of Brazil. Ainoã Oliveira, 16 years old, VLB5 Alumni, is passionate about many topics. She transmits her essence to others through her actions and constant curiosity to understand herself and the world around her. She is currently a middle-level student, she has 3 projects that she is actively developing,

She began as Mr. Kenny’s daughter, wondering at the surrounding of the International School of Curitiba, where she met Mr. D, a person one wouldn’t desire to forget for the rest of the story and that will be almost godly recalled later on. It may have been due to her family background or even the

Treasuring VLB6 comes easy when emails I wrote to the ‘future me’ will periodically appear in my inbox. As a pillar for tracking our growth throughout the process, everyone in the Virtual Leadership Bootcamp 6 journal. My journal ended up taking place in a yodelfututo.com text box. It has my saved but hidden diary entries,

Fearless. Persistent. Bright. Determined. These are a few adjectives we can use to describe Paula Machado, 19. Born and raised in a small town called Carneiros, Alagoas (Brazil), Paula is a writer for the Storytelling team and a business administration student at the Federal Institute of Alagoas. Her contribution to the LALA community has transformed

Cauã Rodrigues, 17 years old, lives in Cabo Frio-RJ nowadays but has already lived in many places throughout Rio de Janeiro. All this moving around made him develop more autonomy and resilience and, mainly, made him find himself. He is passionate about writing and sees this activity as a tool for social impact. Furthermore, he