Impact Stories

Mental health is where confidence and opportunity begin. Discover how the Anglo American Foundation and its partners are helping young people build emotional strength and shape brighter futures in Peru and South Africa.

At a WINGS event cohosted by Anglo American Foundation, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and the European Union during UNGA 2025, Michael Mapstone challenged philanthropy to move beyond talk and act with urgency — shifting capital to match local pace, backing ecosystems, and building different tables where communities lead.
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Our partnership with LUCHA is helping overlooked founders in Latin America access the capital, tools, and visibility they need to grow enterprises that put people and planet first.

Youth leaders from around the world gathered at the Y20 Summit in South Africa to share ideas, build solutions, and shape recommendations for the G20, showing that young people are already leading change.

The Anglo American Foundation is proud to support EMpower in launching this report, which maps the state of adolescent and youth mental health in Arequipa and Cusco, exposes deep service gaps, and offers a roadmap for systemic change grounded in young people’s voices.

Youth entrepreneurship is key to reducing unemployment, yet current efforts are not shifting the needle at scale. The Anglo American Foundation is redefining the conversation by championing overlooked ‘self-starter’ entrepreneurs in South Africa’s townships and building pathways to fair work through value chain support, finance models and national advocacy.

Today, we celebrate the power, passion and possibility of South Africa’s youth. At the Anglo American Foundation, we believe young people are not just the future. They are the changemakers of today.

Aliados de Impacto is unlocking capital and collaboration to put purpose at the heart of Peru’s economy.

Over the past 18 months, we have partnered with Scout Impact to explore how AI can strengthen programme learning, test assumptions, and generate evidence that supports both strategic and operational decisions.