Julia Borbolla's Cartoon Solution for Kids' Psychological Needs
When Julia Borbolla created Antennas for Children, she did not expect her child psychology innovation to help solve crimes.
Ilya Yacevich Transforms Trauma Victims from Survivor to Healer
Ilya is creating the new standard to decrease the effects of trauma and PTSD, while increasing peaceful conflict resolution in the world's most war-torn countries.
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?...
Mental Health Care is Helping Children with Cancer Live Better
Charm Mercado is a thin and rather shy man in his early twenties. He uses two crutches, having lost his leg a decade ago to osteosarcoma, a cancerous tumor in the bone. Growing up with cancer, Mercado used to have constant resentment toward the people around him. He believed the world was unfair. He...
Innovating to Create Health for All
Who can best create outcomes that lead to the healthiest possible lives of individuals and communities? Leading social entrepreneurs are challenging the traditional patient-provider dynamics from an empathetic and holistic perspective.
Our Fight Too: What Gina Clayton is Doing About the Burden of Mass Incarceration on Women
Amid the growing conversation about mass incarceration in the United States, social entrepreneur Gina Clayton sees a part of the problem – and the solution – that has gone largely overlooked. Ashoka’s Michael Zakaras caught up with Clayton, who started Essie Justice Group , to learn more. "In my...
Changing the way we think about mental health
We need to shift the paradigm of how we view and address mental illness at a systemic level. Here's how some social entrepreneurs are leading the way.
Geertrui Serneels
We are delighted to announce that Geert Serneels has joined the network as our most recent Ashoka Belgium Fellow! Geert Serneels is the director of Solentra, an innovative organisation that provides refugee and migrant children with access to a more culturally sensitive and holistic mental health...
The Woman Bringing Unconventional Sex Ed to the Arctic
It turned out to be the most pivotal decision of Ashoka Fellow Candice Lys ’ life: continue with a research stint in Greenland or return home to Canada’s far north and deliver arts-based HIV-prevention workshops. Lys picked door No. 2. In a region with higher rates of sexual violence, sexually...
Dutch Social Health Landscape Innovation Report
Following up on the Social Impact Mapping Project where Ashoka NL, in collaboration with PwC, provided an overview of the different innovators in the fields of Health Care, Circular Economy and Refugees in the Netherlands by visualising a part of the ecosystem a map through snowball sampling...