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Spark Peace Project

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This year, we’re inviting youth around the globe to join us on a journey to build a more peaceful world. Through creative action, students can explore their understanding of peace, identify its barriers, and share their vision for a more compassionate, peaceful, and inclusive society. 

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Bringing young people together for global change.

Impact Overview

Since 2010, students around the world have come together to learn, share their experiences, and make the world a better place. In the process, they’ve created incredible artwork and memories. Each Challenge tackles a unique and timely global issue, and the results are always inspiring.

$11,976,000

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1,713,946

creative expresssions

195,120

youth engaged

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  • 2025: Spark Peace Project

    A Global Initiative for Peace

    This year, we’re inviting youth around the globe to join us on a journey to build a more peaceful world. Through creative action, students can explore their understanding of peace, identify its barriers, and share their vision for a more compassionate, peaceful, and inclusive society. 

  • 2024: Extraordinary Earth Project

    Our Earth is Extraordinary. Let’s Protect it.

    Through the Extraordinary Earth Project, students learned and created art about the environment, generating donations to organizations addressing climate change. With every art submission to the Extraordinary Earth Project, students raised $5 for challenge partners Choose Love/Choose Earth, Little Amal, National Wildlife Federation, Eden Reforestation Projects, and the Solgaard Nyx Foundation working to mitigate the effects of environmental issues.

  • 2023: Welcoming Refugees Project

    We're all connected

    We invited students from around the world to join us on an adventure of learning, empathy and art. Kids channeled their creativity to welcome people displaced by war and other crises by creating postcards sent to young refugees around the world. The Bezos Family Foundation donated $5 to refugee-aid organizations for every postcard created.

  • 2022: World Needs Challenge

    Sparking global change through art⁠–⁠ivism

    Students deepened their understanding of some of the world’s greatest needs—and use it as a catalyst for action. Together, we raised $2,500,000 to support organizations helping support a range of pressing global needs. 1,921 teams of students created more pieces of art than ever before—more than 250,000 posters.

  • 2021: Changemaker Challenge

    Honoring everyday heroes

    Students faced a number of issues during this Challenge: a global pandemic, socially distant learning, racial injustice, the environment, and much more. That’s why we invited students to make awards for changemakers in their own backyard. Their awards also helped support changemakers around the world!

     

  • 2020: Hunger Challenge

    Fighting Hunger and Malnutrition

    Students brought the ingredients to cook up change. Tens of millions of children around the world go to bed hungry or malnourished each night. Students from around the world changed that. Through the Hunger Challenge, students were able to mobilize $2.3 million for programs fighting hunger both locally and globally.

  • 2019: Ocean Challenge

    Ocean Conservation

    More than 1,000 teams in 40 countries participated in the Ocean Challenge, making it one of the largest campaigns in our 10-year history! Student generated donations helped nine nonprofit organizations train coastal youth in ocean conservation and coral restoration.

  • 2018: Facing Difference Challenge

    Engaging Difference

    The Facing Difference Challenge was held during the 2017-18 school year to help educators worldwide empower young people to reflect and take action toward building understanding, empathy, and peace.

  • 2017: Youth Uplift Challenge

    Youth Empowerment

    Over 115,000 students in 28 countries made 250,000+ hands for the Youth Uplift Challenge! For every hand you made and sent in, the Bezos Family Foundation donated $1.90—up to $500,000—to Save the Children’s programs empowering youth in Nicaragua and Indonesia to rise into a life they dream for themselves.

  • 2016: Healing Classrooms Challenge

    Syrian Refugee Crisis

    Teams from around the world made over 200,000 paper pinwheels! The Bezos Family Foundation matched each pinwheel with $2 for a total donation of $400,000 to support the International Rescue Committee’s Healing Classrooms program serving Syrian refugees.

  • 2015: Flowers for Nepal Challenge

    Earthquake Recovery

    Students Rebuild joined forces with Save the Children to support children affected by the April 25, 2015 Nepal earthquake. The Bezos Family Foundation matched every non-perishable flower garland students mailed in with funding, and ultimately donated $200,000 to Save the Children for temporary schools and safe places to play, back-to-school kits and more.

  • 2015: Literacy Challenge

    Access to Literacy Programs

    Students Rebuild partnered with Save the Children and Global Nomads Group to improve youth reading and writing skills around the world. For each bookmark we received, the Bezos Family Foundation donated $1—up to $300,000—to Save the Children’s Literacy Boost program in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

  • 2014: Water Challenge

    Clean Water

    In partnership with charity: water and Global Nomads Group, Students Rebuild brought clean, safe drinking water to those who need it most. For every 20 handmade beads made by students, one person received access to clean water thanks to matching funds from the Bezos Family Foundation.

  • 2013: Typhoon Haiyan Challenge

    Typhoon Recovery

    Students Rebuild partnered with Save the Children to support Typhoon Haiyan victims in the Philippines. Students around the world wrote letters matched with funds by the Bezos Family Foundation. Save the Children used these funds to provide students with temporary learning spaces, educational materials and more.

  • 2013: One Million Bones Challenge

    Humanitarian Crisis

    Students Rebuild joined the One Million Bones project, CARE, and Global Nomads Group to create 1,000,000 handmade bones as a visible petition against humanitarian crises. The Bezos Family Foundation matched student efforts with a donation of $500,000 to CARE’s work in Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC.)

  • 2011: Paper Cranes for Japan Challenge

    Earthquake and Tsunami Recovery

    In 2011, Students Rebuild partnered with DoSomething.org and Architecture for Humanity to give students a way to support their Japanese peers affected by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Sendai. We asked students to make paper cranes and mail them to have their efforts matched by the Bezos Family Foundation.

  • 2010: Haiti Challenge

    Earthquake Recovery

    In the first ever Students Rebuild Challenge, our teams put their creativity to the test and hosted their own fundraisers. They held bake sales, computer fixing drives, and even a rock concert. We were blown away by students around the world who responded to help their peers.