How One Ashoka Fellow In Kolkata Is Helping The Homeless And The Mentally Ill
Homeless. Mentally ill. Living on the street. Filthy. Name forgotten. Family forgotten. Nearly naked. Muttering mysterious words. Lonely and lost. Sounds familiar? These are the people we see on the streets every day in our lives. But what do we feel for them? Repulsion? Fear? Mere ignorance?...
Bacolod Startup Wins Php3.9M for Training Disadvantaged Youth to Become Skilled Workers
Zhihan Lee Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2017 Philippines Bagosphere Bacolod-based social enterprise Bagosphere won the top prize of 100,000 Australian dollars (Php3.9 million) last April 19 in Frontier Innovators, a search for innovative businesses in the Asia-Pacific by the Australian government’s...
Bacolod-based social enterprise wins P3.9M grant from Australia
Zhihan Lee Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2017 Philippines Bagosphere Bacolod-based social enterprise BagoSphere has bagged the top prize at Frontier Innovators, an initiative of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. BagoSphere, which provides programs that prepare disadvantaged youth for a...
We Used to Build Things
"When you look around today, you see a lot of history-making new companies being created, but you don’t see too many big civic organizations. There are some great social entrepreneurs, like Bill Drayton, who started Ashoka, but the only vast national civic movements I can think of are the charter...
Ashoka Joins the Global #GivingTuesday Movement
Ashoka has joined #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities and organizations to encourage philanthropy and celebrate generosity worldwide. Occurring this year on November 28, #GivingTuesday is held annually to kick off the giving season...
Ashoka European Changemaker Summit
Looking at Europe from a different angle: As origin to impactful social innovations and their founders When speaking about Europe today we often focus on the challenges in politics or administration. What Ashoka, a globally active non-profit organization and network of what they call changemakers,...
Sylvia Banda: Growing Local Food Systems & Training Female Farmers
Ashoka Fellow Sylvia Banda created a network of training programs across the region and a mechanism to spread Zambian food around the world.
