Each year, the Education Working Group of the Young Global Leaders chooses a project where they can make a unique and meaningful difference.  In 2007, they chose deworming because of the evidence that deworming was an extremely cost-effective way to increase schooling and improve child health.

It was a challenge that played to the YGL strengths. The issue was global—spanning virtually every developing country—and so was the YGL network. But the problem of worms was under-recognized—and the YGLs realized they had the ability to raise the profile of the issue. Deworming the world also required partnerships between funders, and implementers, governments and nongovernmental organizations and technical experts. And partnerships between people of different backgrounds and expertise is what the YGL network is all about.