Project empowers communities across New Brunswick, Ghana, Nigeria, and India
Named the Best Project for the 2025 Jeanne Sauvé Global Project Accelerator, Spark from St. Thomas University empowers diverse groups through financial security workshops, entrepreneurship fairs, and discounted nutritious food. Their work benefits low-income communities, high school students, and university students—with a focus on supporting international, Indigenous, and socio-economically disadvantaged individuals—across New Brunswick, Ghana, Nigeria, and now India.
They were able to expand into India and further their impact because of the resources received through this project accelerator.
“The Jeanne Sauvé Foundation is very impressed with the Spark project and thrilled about its expansion from St. Thomas University in New Brunswick to India allowing the local youth to benefit from its impact and empowerment. Growing and sharing Canadian projects with proven local positive impact to the rest of the world is so important and part of the Jeanne Sauvé mission. Congratulations!” Diane Sauvé, Présidente, Sauvé Foundation.
Creating change beyond Canada – that’s what the Jeanne Sauvé Global Project Accelerator is designed to do. Teams are given the resources to expand or modify an existing project to address global changes and drive impact in collaboration with an Enactus team in the target country.
This year, five projects received $2,500 each in funding through the accelerator, resulting in 1,277 people in Canada directly impacted, and 163 people in the target countries experienced positive outcomes.
More information about the Jeanne Sauvé Global Project Accelerator and the other 2024-2025 Project Accelerators can be found here.
