The 2021 Waislitz Global Citizen Awards recognize and support extraordinary individuals around the globe for their work to end extreme poverty.

Past winners include those revolutionizing access to education using technology and TV broadcasts which are invaluable in a remote learning world, distributing birth kits and manufacturing PPE for frontline health care workers, reducing food spoilage with 100% solar powered walk-in cold rooms, and converting women-led food carts into mobile disinfectant units to help combat COVID-19.

These activists not only disrupted the status quo, but also served their communities in a crucial time of need.

Presented by the Waislitz Foundation and Global Citizen, with additional support from Mesoblast, the awards will distribute $250,000 among four exceptional changemakers. 

“Ending extreme poverty is not a choice — it's an obligation,” said Alex Waislitz, chairman and founder of the Melbourne-based Waislitz Foundation. “My hope is that [the awards] will inspire many thousands of people around the world to do what they can to improve the living standards of those in dire need.”

This year, one grand prize winner will receive $100,000, with three additional prizes awarded at $50,000 each, for a total of four prizes.

The additional prizes are the Waislitz Global Citizen Disruptor Award, given to the applicant who created measurable impact in an innovative manner that disrupts the systems that allow for extreme poverty to exist; the Waislitz Global Citizens’ Choice Award, which is selected with input from public online voting by the Global Citizen community; and the Waislitz Global Citizen COVID-19 Response Award, given to those who implemented a specific adaptation or a new program that addresses the impacts of COVID-19. The awards are open to individuals or individual representatives of organizations anywhere in the world working to end extreme poverty and its many causes and consequences. 

The application process opens on May 20, 2021, and closes on June 13, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. EDT. 

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