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⏰Applications are Open for Project Oxygen (O2) Global Teen Alliance 2026
🌍 Project Oxygen (O2) Global Teen Alliance 2026 – Rome, Italy
🗓 May 31 – June 5
🚨 Now Accepting Teen Applications!
Ready to meet teens from around the world and actually talk about what matters?
Project Oxygen is bringing students together in Rome and Vatican City to build The Breathe Alliance — a global crew of young leaders impacted by conflict who want to turn real conversations into real action.
This isn’t a boring conference. It’s an experience.
➡️The details:
- Ages 15-18
- 1 adult to 4 teens chaperone ratio
- Trained educators and mentors
- Fully funded except travel expenses to Rome
- Travel scholarships are available
🔥 What you’ll do:
- Pre & Post meetings will take place virtually to prepare for the trip & build friendships along the way
- Real talk in small-group discussions
- Hands-on workshops
- Fun, interactive leadership challenges
- Explore historic Rome
- Connect with teens from different countries
- Create a community impact project you can bring home
- Engagement + audience with Pope Leo
Our generation is being shaped right now.
If we let division and silence take over, that becomes our future.
But if we protect space for honest dialogue?
We build a different kind of leadership — bold, respectful, and ready to make change.
If you care about your world and want to be part of something bigger than yourself… this is your moment.
🌬️ Come be the breath of something new.
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Empowering Youth.
Fostering Friendships.
Creating Change.
At Kids Konnect Ukraine, we believe that young voices have the power to transform the world. Through digital connections, cross-cultural storytelling, and student-led initiatives, we bring together Ukrainian and American youth to build friendships, share experiences, and make a difference one conversation at a time.
In a world divided by distance and conflict, we create a space for empathy, learning, and hope where kids and teens can exchange ideas, express themselves, and work toward a brighter future together.
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