Last evening, Youth Ki Awaaz won big at the afaqs! DigiPub Awards 2023 – picking up trophies for Best Audience Engagement on the website and Best Section (Environment and Climate Reporting). It was truly a remarkable moment for us as a team and as a community.
Amongst 25 various award categories, spanning across advertising, business, content, design, innovation, and technology, Youth Ki Awaaz emerged victorious in two. Other notable winners included The Quint, News9 Plus, Hindustan Times, Jagran New Media, JioSaavn, Newslaundry, among others.
Youth Ki Awaaz’s victory in the Best Audience Engagement on Site category is a testament to our unwavering commitment to empowering young voices across India. As an open publishing platform, YKA has strived to provide a safe haven for thousands of young individuals to speak up and share their perspectives on critical social justice issues. We are devoted to ensuring that each one of our 1,53,189 users feels empowered to be the change they wish to see in the world, living our motto of Awaaz uthao, vichaar badlo!
Winning the Best Section award for our climate reporting at Youth Ki Awaaz is truly a moment of immense pride and joy for our entire team. Launched nearly four years ago, our Zero Se Hero campaign holds a special place in our hearts. Being recognized for our efforts to bring your firsthand climate change stories and experiences to the limelight feels truly humbling. We firmly believe that personal narratives are a critical agent for change, and it’s inspiring to see how this approach has served as a bridge between citizens and policymakers.
Throughout the past year, our team has worked tirelessly to enable thousands of young voices to rise up and make a real impact using the YKA platform. Both these awards have only been possible because of you, our community, and we are grateful for the phenomenal effort that you put into this platform every single day.
So, here’s raising a toast to the upcoming year and the promising future beyond – envisioning even greater impact and positive transformations. We can’t wait to continue on this journey with you, catalyzing change one article, one opinion, and one voice at a time.