Two South African schoolgirls are carrying their food-security ideas to a global stage in Iowa

Poloko Rapport, from Maquassi Hills English Secondary School in North West province, and Majoleeh Muller, from Paarl Girls' High School, are both in Grade 10 — and both are in Des Moines, Iowa, this week, representing South Africa at the World Food Prize Global Youth Institute with about 200 young people from around the world. They were chosen from 39 pupils across six provinces at South Africa's first Youth Institute, hosted by Stellenbosch University. Rapport researched health and nutrition in Somalia; Muller, how fruit waste could feed livestock in Mozambique. 'Being selected means so much,' Rapport says, 'because it sends a strong message: people like me can create real change.'

SDG 4 · Quality education — Mechanism: institutional program