Empowering the next generation
The Canon Young People Programme provides opportunities that allow those that need it most, young people from deprived backgrounds and communities in developing regions, to document stories on the social and environmental issues that matter to them.
Young People Programme
Canon Young People Programme
2023 Year in Review
The mission of the Canon Young People Programme is to inspire, educate and empower the next generation of storytellers. It offers a means and platform for self-expression through skills-building workshops, which we co-design in partnership with NGOs and schools. This report shares programme highlights from activity across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where we worked with over 1,500 young people across 33 countries delivering more than 400 workshops. Empowering storytellers through the Programme is the very embodiment of kyosei, our corporate philosophy, which means ‘living and working together for the common good’.
Latest stories
UN Global Festival of Action
Canon will be attending the UN Festival of Action along with participants from the Young People Programme to demonstrate the power of photography to drive and inspire change.
It's up to us...
To show what is needed to make their city safer, teenagers took to Brussels with cameras to tell their stories.
In times of conflict
A school in Iraq was destroyed during the Battle of Ramadi. After its rebuild, the students were taught how to tell their story through photography.
Taking a shot for Kruger’s future
Rhino poaching is common at Kruger National Park, but Wild Shots Outreach is fighting for change by teaching local youngsters to tell stories with cameras.
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