Aldiyar Abduali and Timur Bisenbayev, Kazakhstan, attended the Global Youth Summit in London from November 22-27. The two Kazakhstan citizens have been selected from over a thousand young people from all over the world. The sixty selected participants spent a week sharing best practices in the areas of human rights, climate change, poverty reduction, education, HIV/AIDS, and social entrepreneurship.

The new Changemakers shared best practices on activism, and worked together with experts and other young social activists on how to best address the issues they are facing on the ground in their home country.

The Global Youth Summit is part of the British Council’s Global Changemakers initiative. Global Changemakers is a global network of a select group of young who have a significant track record as social entrepreneurs, social activists and volunteers (ages 16-25). They meet to share ideas and best practices, and work individually and together on projects that directly impact the lives of those in their local communities. In addition, each year, a select group of Global Changemakers is chosen to participate in high-level political and economic events, to act as advocates and to raise decision-makers’ awareness of key issues on the global agenda.

Founded at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2007, Global Changemakers has partnered with, and participated in, World Economic Forum events (in Davos, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Cartagena, Dar-es-Salaam and Cape Town), the Clinton Global Initiative, the Global Humanitarian Forum, UN W-CCIII and the G20. Individual supporters include HM Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, President Bill Clinton, and the actress Emma Thompson.