On Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, Global Citizen Festival returns to Central Park’s Great Lawn for its 13th year, bringing together the world’s biggest artists, leaders, and advocates to call for an end to poverty and to protect the only planet we have.  

As always, the Global Citizen Festivals are more than a pop culture moment, it's all uniting with other engaged citizens around the world and initiating real change — this year is no different. The Global Citizen Festival is the best way to take actions that make a real impact right from your phone. As such, we're moving into this festival season with a tagline that's necessary for the age we're currently living in: "Amplify the Movement", with a focus on three ambitious goals towards eradicating extreme poverty. Here's what those goals are and how you can get involved. 

1. Provide Energy Access for 1 Million People Across Africa

As Africa’s population grows, so does its demand for electricity, yet too many communities still lack a reliable and safe source of energy. At present, 600 million people across the continent don’t have access to electricity. 

This limits opportunities for education, healthcare, and entrepreneurship, setting the continent back on goals to advance sustainable development and end poverty for all.

To address this problem, Global Citizen’s Scaling Up Renewables in Africa campaign aims to mobilize $1.5 billion to train 50,000 young workers in critical energy skills like solar installation, grid maintenance, and energy services. 

The 2025 Global Citizen Festival campaign is calling on governments, companies, and philanthropists to step up with major commitments to invest in clean and affordable solutions to power homes, schools, hospitals, and businesses in Africa’s nations. 

In partnership with the European Commission, Global Citizen is catalyzing private sector investment in at least two major infrastructure projects, valued at over $500 million, with co-funding from the governments of Denmark, Australia, and the United Kingdom. 

These investments have the potential to bring clean, reliable energy to at least 1 million people across the continent while creating jobs, reducing carbon emissions, and accelerating Africa’s green energy transition.

You can support Global Citizen reaching this goal, by taking action with us under our Scaling Up Renewables in Africa campaign to advocate for clean and affordable energy access for all African citizens. 

2. Mobilize $200 Million to Protect 30 Million Hectares of the Amazon Rainforest

To defend the planet, we must protect the Amazon from deforestation. Indigenous communities are leading the way to protect, restore, and re-wild the rainforest by growing food, making natural products, and passing down traditions to help local communities generate new, profitable income streams. 

In response to this, Global Citizen and Re:wild are partnering to raise $200 million to support the next generation of Indigenous and community-based entrepreneurs as part of a larger $1 billion plan to protect and restore the Amazon. 

These projects will help protect up to 30 million hectares of rainforest — approximately equivalent to the size of Italy — and keep more than 20 billion trees standing. The 2025 Global Citizen Festival campaign is urging the German, Norwegian, and French governments, along with corporations and philanthropists, to support over 20 Indigenous groups and help protect one of the most important forests on Earth.

Help Global Citizen Protect the Amazon rainforest and support our efforts to help protect 30 million hectares of rainforest by taking action with us. 

3. Provide Access to Education for 30,000 Children Around the World

According to UNESCO, 250 million children worldwide are falling behind on basic literacy skills. 

In response, Global Citizen and FIFA launched the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund to raise $100 million to provide at least 100,000 children worldwide with access to quality education, by providing grants for community-based programs in over 150 countries. 

Already, $1 from every ticket sold at international events related to this campaign, such as The Weeknd’s “After Hours Til Dawn” tour and the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup have been donated to the fund. Through round-up donations from the public, corporate and philanthropic contributions, matching gifts, and ticket sales donations, this year’s Global Citizen Festival campaign aims to raise at least $30 million – enough to help 30,000 children learn to read and write.

The 2025 Global Citizen Festival campaign is also calling on governments, philanthropies, and the private sector to fund essential services of healthcare, nutrition, and safe classrooms that make it possible for children to access educational opportunities.

You can also support the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund by making a donation towards helping every child have access to quality learning. 

Providing energy access across Africa, protecting the Amazon rainforest, and ensuring education for children worldwide are vital steps toward a sustainable future for all; but we can’t achieve these ambitious goals alone. You can use the Global Citizen app to call on world leaders to support policies that defeat poverty and defend the planet. By taking action, you’ll earn points for every action you take, which you can redeem for a chance to win a Global Citizen Festival ticket for free. Take action now to transform these goals into reality.