“What has changed in our work since receiving the award is having a much larger community of partners, of champions, and being able to build lasting institutional change in our work through the grant that we received.”

Ilwad Elman, 2020 Aurora Prize Laureate and Director of Programs and Development at Elman Peace, reflects on how receiving the Prize served as a powerful tool for creating lasting change for Somali youth, emphasizing Aurora’s crucial role in transforming realities on the ground and helping to ensure that an entire generation is not lost to war.