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Ever crocheted a plastic bag into a coaster? Beaded a bracelet of olive pits? Seen a bicycle or helicopter made of scrap wire? Spend a day with Jordanian Fellow Rabee Zureikat’s Zikra Initiative and you will. With the Zikra Initiative’s tourist exchange model, Rabee is bridging two distinct divides...

The Ashoka East Africa staff and Fellows were saddened by the recent news of Ashoka Fellow Andrew Macharia’s passing. Macharia (Kenya, 2003) was one of the region’s earliest Fellows; he was elected in 2003 for his innovative community-based waste management and recycling program, The City Garbage...

Ashoka Fellow Albina Ruiz is not afraid of cleaning up garbage. Many of us take efficient waste removal for granted. Yet, in some parts of the world, refuse is not effectively managed. This has long been the case in Lima, Peru. The problem was particularly severe in Lima’s northern district. In 1995...

Zaczęło się od namówienia jednej restauracji, by zrezygnowała z jednorazowych tacek ze styropianu i wróciła do tradycyjnych talerzy. Dziś strona organizacji Smarter Dharma z dumą obwieszcza "14121 ton odpadów zredukowane". Jej założyciel, Ashoka Fellow Sriram Kuchimanchi współpracuje z dziesiątkami...

Starting with her own collection of children’s books, Bailey formed a team of three other ambitious young people to pioneer a circular economy for literature in their city.

Ashoka turned to Ashoka Fellows Gonzalo Muñoz and Ximena Abogabir to understand what it takes to raise a family of changemakers.

The two scientists behind trailblazing tech company BioCellection fell in love with the plastic problem and took it on together.

The brainchild of three DIY enthusiasts and self-made entrepreneurs, Bel Albatros gives new life to plastic waste and unwanted machines. Learning from scratch by following blueprints of recycling machines published by the open-source project “Precious Plastic”, Bel Albatros co-founder Guilain...

In a world where social problems are on the rise, a growing number of young people are leading the solutions. Ashoka Youth Venturer, Prateek Agarwal resisted the pressures to focus only on academic studies when faced with a dire issue: the proliferation of plastic bags choking the environment in...