Change rarely starts with strategies. It starts with people and with the belief that they matter.
At MasterPeace, we witness the power of youth empowerment across our global network every day. When young people are trusted, supported, and given the space to explore their ideas, empowerment turns creativity into action, challenges into opportunities, and vision into possibility.
This story comes from Kosova, a place where young people face high unemployment and limited opportunities, yet carry extraordinary resilience, imagination, and drive.
In 2024, our local partner SIT, the MasterPeace Kosova club, introduced young people to the Doughnut Economics methodology. Not as a theory, but as a way to rethink the future. Through workshops and camps, participants explored how their creativity could become concrete start-up ideas — ventures designed to serve people, strengthen communities, and respect the planet.
These weren’t just business plans but they were more as acts of hope. The real impact shows itself in small moments. After one of the camps, a participant shared:
“These activities don’t just help me, they help my whole community.”
That sentence captures the heart of this work. Empower one young person, and the effect spreads outward, to families, peers, and neighborhoods. Skills grow into confidence, and ideas become shared responsibility.
While this story is rooted in Kosova, it is part of something larger. Being part of the MasterPeace network means no club works alone. Each local step forward connects to a global movement grounded in creativity, peace, and sustainability.
Looking ahead, our vision is simple and ambitious: a generation of young Kosovars who are confident enough to design their own future. A society where ideas are nurtured, collaboration is natural, and every voice has space.
Because when young people rise, they don’t rise alone. They lift their communities and, quietly, the world with them.
This story is part of the MasterPeace Impact Series. Each week, we share another to remind ourselves, our partners, and our funders why this work matters, and who it is really for.
