IBlieve is an international, student-led, non-profit organization focused on supporting IBDP students. This organization offers an optimistic, kind, and understanding platform, open to all students; whilst also offering tips, advice and strategies from IB students and graduates. The IBlieve community is present across multiple platforms and provides relevant and engaging resources to help current students manage their time, work and understanding certain tasks.
The IBlieve Impact Report is a public report that showcases IBlieve’s achievements, goals and efforts in the relevant calendar year
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�� How to Navigate
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��IBlieve’s Values
IBlieve's core values bond our entire team and guide how we work together towards a shared vision of empowering IB students worldwide. Our values are the basis through which our mentors, mentees, student volunteers, and graduates communicate and collaborate, and what make IBlieve as efficient, impactful, and successful as it is today
Our values are at the center of every stage of our operations and mission, and we implore you to join our community to learn more about our values up close, and perhaps even contribute to our future set of values! In addition, we align our values mutually with those of the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile (IBLP)!
IBlieve Values
Diversity ��
The IBlieve community is made up of members from almost every corner of the globe, and we take pride in our diverse body, allowing us to learn about and embrace each other's cultural, social, ethnic, religious, and national identities. We also work together towards supporting a diverse audience of IB students worldwide!
Collaboration ��
IBlieve champions the belief that harnessing the collective genius of group work is the best method to have the most effective impact on IB students. We value the individual experiences of each mentor, mentee, and student volunteer, coming together for the shared goal of helping IB students worldwide. Embracing new platforms and technology has also allowed us to work together online across 18 timezones.
Commitment ��
Our community is built upon the goal to produce helpful material for IB students worldwide. Woven in every step of our mission is a commitment to the quality of the content we produce and the assistance we provide. We take esteem in doing what we do to the best of our abilities, and are grateful that our community shows so much commitment despite being entirely voluntary.
Leadership ��
The IBlieve community, as any student volunteer or mentor will tell you, is a great catalyst for developing personal leadership skills and learning how to have the courage to shape the future of a community Leadership opportunities are encouraged, and by advocating for student agency and developing the innate leadership skills present in every person, IBlieve is keen on maturing and advancing every student into a capable, experienced, and empowered leader and member within our community.
Authors & Acknowledgements
Daria Chernovolenko
Hello! My name is Daria and I was one of the co-creators for the 2023 IBlieve annual report. Having once been an IB student myself, I have been following IBlieve since my first year in the IB and have continued to so do long after my graduation I hope you like the report we presented and if you would like to become a part of the IBlieve, please do not hesitate to contact IBlieve!
Nour Hassouna
Hi! I’m an IB Grad from Egypt and IBlieve was a major support for me during my IB journey. The community is so friendly and truly aims to help every IB student there is I’m glad that I’m able to give back to this community by curating this report with Daria! We aim to familiarise the reader with IBlieve and present all the ways in which IBlieve contributes to the IB world. I hope this report is able to reach as many students as possible to allow them the wonderful opportunity of engaging with IBlieve!
Report co-written by Nour and Daria,
Impact Co-Leads
Cover Page by Bonnie, Design Lead
Illustrations designed by IBlieve’s Design Team
Foreword
Message from 2023 Co-Executive Directors
Since the launching of IBlieve in July 2020, the team remains dedicated to providing free resources to enable all IB students to succeed IBlieve’s co-founders, Imogen and Katie, did an incredible job at establishing a thriving organisation and continue to help forge new relationships to support this community.
In 2022, Maitha and Wangari became IBlieve’s first generation of executive directors. As May 2021 and November 2020 grads we both experienced the challenges of doing the IB during a pandemic and wanted to be a resource to other IB students. In 2022 the world had begun its transition into post-pandemic life and we had the responsibility of guiding our 100% virtual organisation through this change Students returned to in-person learning and students relied less on the support of online communities. We recognized the importance of focusing on the need that remained – the provision of free resources and advice
Many of the previously existing initiatives were kept, and several new ones were introduced to IBlieve’s structure, all testaments to the dedication of IBlieve’s team The mentoring and tutoring program continued to grow, as did IBlieve’s presence on different platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, and Substack. Thanks to the team's efforts, IBlieve has now reached 200 countries.
Today, we celebrate the launch of the College Application Mentorship Program from our Outreach Team, the rebranding by our Design Team, and the new forms of content brought by our Podcast and Social Media Teams, and the record statistics on our blog thanks to the Writing Team We celebrate the incredible international team behind all these achievements, and the continuously growing community of IB students and graduates. We are also proud to be an official partner of the IBO’s Festival of Hope, strengthening our connections to the youth and our vision to make meaningful change in the world.
Beyond being a team, IBlieve is a family, and seeing the team step out of the virtual environment and make an effort to meet up in-person, shows the lasting impact that remains after being part of IBlieve Maitha and Wangari both had their first IBlieve meetups in 2022, and shared that their experiences were surreal! They do hope to one day meet each other in-person (funnily enough, two years later, this one is still a work in progress)
Message from 2023 Co-Executive Directors
The contributions of the team and community are always celebrated, and we are excited to see where IBlieve goes next! Thank you for joining us on this journey. We believe in you all!
Co-Exec Directors, Wangari and Maitha
Meet-ups in 2023!
IBlieve is an online community, all it’s resources and operations are virtual, so the chance for face-to-face meet ups are a big event! IBlieve is an international community as such there have been meet-ups all over the world