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  If you are a creative between the ages of 15 and 22, and you would like to learn from some of the world’s top content creators and connect with other creatives like yourself, UNICEF is offering you the opportunity to do so.
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Applications are now open for the UNICEF Mediathon 2021 for young creatives. It’s an online skills-building program that brings together creative people in their youth from across the world and lets them sharpen their creative skills and use them to express their thoughts on some of the top issues affecting young people today. Classes available at the program include poetry, animation and illustration, video creation, and social media creativity. Six masterclasses covering various topics will be held as well. Participants will also get the chance to publish with UNICEF. The program is supported by GIPHY, a top source for animated online content, and features Wikimedia Foundation, the Non-Profit which runs Wikipedia.
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Benefits

Attendees at the UNICEF Mediathon 2021 will benefit from the program in the following ways:
  • Learn digital storytelling skills from some of the world’s leading content creators.
  • Meet and interact with creatives from across the world.
  • Sharpen their creative skills and get creative expressing their thoughts on issues of the day.
  • Have their content published by UNICEF.

Eligibility

The program is open to creatives from across the world aged between 15 and 22 years. The deadline for applications into this program is Friday, August 6. This year’s edition of the UNICEF Mediathon will launch on Thursday, August 12. To find out more about this program and apply for it, click here. Featured Image Source: Voices of Youth
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This article was first published on 2nd August 2021

ikenna-nwachukwu

Ikenna Nwachukwu holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He loves to look at the world through multiple lenses- economic, political, religious and philosophical- and to write about what he observes in a witty, yet reflective style.

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