Participant places
Covers a young leader's place on an exchange leg — travel, accommodation with host families, meals, materials and programme support.
Support
Support the Ubuntu Youth Exchange
The programme is in its funding stage. The plan carries a Planned budget of $285,000 over 14 months and a Planned cost of $950 per participant. Every figure on this page is Planned budget — none of it has been raised yet.
Where support would go
What contributions are planned to cover
These categories come straight from the programme plan, with figures labelled as Planned budget. Actual spending will be reported publicly once the programme runs.
Where support would go
Community project seed grants
Small seed grants so mixed-nationality teams can take the projects they design during the five-day sprints beyond the exchange itself.
Exchange logistics
Transport, hosting arrangements, facilitation, insurance and safeguarding costs across the six planned cross-border exchange legs.
Digital storytelling & alumni network
Storytelling training and equipment for the Stories hub, plus country chapters and alumni activities that keep the network alive after each cohort.
All amounts shown are Planned budget figures from the programme plan. They are targets, not confirmed prices or secured funds.
Ways to support
Five ways people and organisations can help
Money is only one route. Skills, venues and networks move a youth programme as much as grants do.
Ways to support
Fund a place or project
When giving opens, contributions can target participant places or seed grants for community projects.
Host or provide a venue
Communities and organisations can offer homestay capacity, meeting spaces or logistics support for an exchange leg.
Mentor or volunteer skills
Facilitation, legal, finance, monitoring or media skills help the volunteer leadership team deliver the programme well.
In-kind support
Equipment, printing, transport or software donated to the programme reduces what funds need to cover.
Share our work
Passing AYAN's plans to colleagues, foundations or youth networks costs nothing and helps us reach funders and partners.
Important
Online giving is not open yet
We are setting up an account in AYAN's name so that every contribution is handled and reported properly. Tell us you are interested and we will contact you when it opens.
This page shows no bank account, no M-Pesa number and no card form, and takes no payments. AYAN is not yet a registered entity, so we do not claim tax deductibility for any contribution.
Register interest
Tell us you would like to support
Use the form to record your interest. It sends your details to the AYAN team only — no money moves, and nothing you enter here commits you to anything.
Support interest form
Foundations and institutions planning larger support are welcome too — for those conversations the partner enquiry form may fit better.
Accountability
How we will report
Once contributions exist, AYAN plans to publish an annual public report showing how each contribution was used, against the Planned budget figures above. Reporting is a promise about how we intend to operate — it starts when the programme does. See the impact page for the measurement plan behind it.