MCW Global

We aim to empower current leaders and leaders of tomorrow to create opportunities for greater levels of education, improved health (particularly oral health care prevention and education), and increased economic security.

We make this happen through two primary program areas: our Young Leaders Program and our Africa Program, which focuses on Oral Health Care and Community Development).

Our Young Leaders Program aims to empower and support young leaders to become leaders of positive change in their community.

Our Africa Program focuses on focuses on Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia. From upgrading the infrastructure of Tanzania’s only dental school to helping Rwandans and Zambians develop employable skills for today’s marketplace, we are committed to addressing communities’ needs by investing in leadership.

With regard to our Young Leaders Program, we have over 800 alumni in 66 countries, who have participated in one of our young leaders projects. Today, we have a year long Young Access Leaders Program that focuses on leadership, global citizenship, and vision planning. It begins with a 10-day intensive retreat that prepares participants, 18 to 26, to become leaders of positive change in their community. (To date, we have held 21 summer retreats since our founding in 1999).

During the program, participants go through the process of identifying an issue facing their community and then producing an actionable plan that can be implemented in their own communities. Participants are paired with alumni, who will guide and mentor them during the year, aiming to help them transform passion into action. Participants will also hear about the experiences of a range of experts from academia, civil society, development, and the pubic and private sectors through a series of workshops, discussions and experiential learning.

Drawing on this experience, we also organize Young Leaders Regional Conferences. Past conferences have been held in Jerusalem, Egypt, and Kyrgyzstan.

To support our alumni, we support The Alumni Ventures Fund, which offers graduates of our international Young Leaders Access Program a unique opportunity to turn their vision plans into concrete community-based projects with a start-up grant of up to $5,000 and a year of professional mentorship. With 13 recipients since the Fund’s founding in 2009, AVF has helped young leaders achieve their personal goals of being changemakers in their communities.

With regard to our Africa Program, MCW Global is based in New York with affiliate organizations in Africa (Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia). Each one of our affiliate organizations is led by a local Board of Directors and Leadership Team, including a Country Manager and Program Officers), who oversee the development and execution of the country plan. In Tanzania, we focus on Oral Health Care; and, in Rwanda and Zambia, we focus on Vocational Training, such as sewing/tailoring and IT training, as well as social programs addressing community needs, such as literacy.

Reach in 2018:

o Over 3,000 young people from around the world applied to our Young Leaders Access Program
o 2 new recipients of the Alumni Ventures Fund -- one in Kenya and one in Brazil
o 595 people participated in one of our Vocational Training Programs in Rwanda or Zambia
o 105 people participated in our youth programs in Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia
o Over 9,000 people, mainly primary school children, received dental treatment in 2018 alone in Tanzania
o 118 children participated in our literacy program in Zambia and, as a result, 26 were reintegrated into the school system
o 800 young leaders from 66 countries around the world
o 13 Alumni Venture Fund recipients from 6 countries