GRAND FINALE & SHOWCASE
- Thursday 21st August | 11:00am
- GYLC 2026 | Venue: Parklands Baptist Church, Westlands
The Love Inspired Solutions Challenge is a practical innovation challenge for young leaders, students, entrepreneurs and professionals who are passionate about solving real problems through love-inspired leadership.
Develop a meaningful solution, submit your idea, and stand the chance to present it live at the Global Young Leaders Congress 2026.
- Challenge Opens: 25 July 2026
- Submission Deadline: 13 August 2026
- Grand Finale: 21 August 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya
Create Solutions. Transform Communities. Inspire the Future.
The world does not simply need more ideas.
It needs solutions that create genuine value, restore people, strengthen communities and transform society.
The Love Inspired Solutions Challenge invites participants to identify a real challenge they care about and develop an innovative, practical and sustainable solution using the Love Applied Framework.
Whether your idea improves education, healthcare, business, technology, governance, agriculture, faith, community development or any other area of society, this challenge is your opportunity to turn purpose into impact.
The Challenge Areas: The 7 Mountains of Influence
Every challenge entry must address one of these spheres of society. Choose the mountain where your passion and purpose meet. These seven spheres represent every area where culture is shaped and society is transformed. Your Love-Inspired solution can create change in any one of them.
- Religion & Faith
- Family
- Education
- Government & Politics
- Media & Culture
- Arts & Entertainment
- Entertainment
- Business & Economy
How to participate
Join the challenge with the following steps.
- Step 1: Register for the challenge.
- Step 2: Identify a real problem you are passionate about solving.
- Step 3: Use the Love Applied Framework to develop your solution.
- Step 4: Prepare your submission (written proposal, presentation or prototype).
- Step 5: Submit on or before 13 August 2026.
- Step 6: If shortlisted, present your solution at the Grand Finale.
The Process & Timeline - 25 July: Challenge officially launches.
- 25 July – 13 August: Develop and submit your solution.
- 14–17 August: Review and judging of submissions.
- 19 August: Finalists announced.
- 21 August: Grand Finale at the Global Young Leaders Congress.
Love Applied Framework
Great solutions do more than solve problems. They create lasting value.
1. Understand Deeply: Who is affected? What is the real problem? What are the root causes?
2. Create Value: How does your solution genuinely improve people’s lives?
3. Design Innovatively: Develop a practical, creative and achievable solution.
4. Build Sustainably: Ensure your solution can continue creating impact over time.
5. Collaborate Generously: Identify people, partners and communities who can help strengthen the solution.
6. Multiply Impact: Think beyond one individual. How can your solution grow and benefit many others?
Success Criteria
Entries will be assessed based on:
- Problem Understanding — Is the challenge clearly understood?
- Value Creation — Does the solution improve people’s lives?
- Innovation — Is the idea creative and practical?
- Feasibility — Can it realistically be implemented?
- Sustainability — Can the impact continue over time?
- Presentation — Is the solution communicated clearly and convincingly?
Terms & Conditions
- Participation is free.
- Individuals and teams are welcome.
- Participants retain ownership of their ideas.
- Submitted work must be original.
- By submitting, participants grant Love Inspired Leadership Int’l permission to showcase their work for educational and promotional purposes with appropriate acknowledgement.
- Judges’ decisions are final.
- Submission deadline is 13 August 2026.
Become a Partner or sponsor
Great solutions thrive through collaboration.
We welcome organizations, businesses, universities, NGOs, foundations and individuals who want to invest in Africa’s next generation of solution creators.
Partners can support through:
- Sponsorship
- Mentorship
- Judging
- Prize sponsorship
- Technical expertise
- Incubation
- opportunities
- Media and promotional support
Together, we can empower young people to become creators of transformative solutions.
Organizers - Love Inspired Leadership Int'l
For more than 7 years, Love Inspired Leadership International (also known as Whispers of Love United) has gathered, inspired and equipped thousands of young leaders from around the world to discover God’s amazing love for them, and to let that love motivate them to lead and positively impact others. Through worship festivals, academies, mentoring, resources and other online programming, we’ve helped young leaders progress on the journey of who God has called them to be through Love-inspired leadership. Our programs and initiatives include The Creative Influence Fellowship, The Campus Ambassadors Program, The Global Young Leaders Congress.
