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...
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.
EIR Lessons in perspective: A Conversation with EIR alumni Juan Loraschi
For information about the Executive in Residence program visit the EIR program page , or contact us at [email protected] . BACKGROUND – MEET THE PEOPLE EIR Juan Loraschi and host Ashoka Fellow Dorien Beurskens Juan Loraschi, Western Union Regional Vice President, partnered with Dorien...
EIR Lessons in Perspective: A conversation with EIR alumni Carolina Ceballos
For information about the Executive in Residence (EIR) program visit the EIR program page , or contact us at [email protected] . BACKGROUND – MEET THE PEOPLE EIR Carolina Ceballos and host Ashoka Fellow Saskia Niño de Rivera Carolina, Vice President of AML-Compliance for Americas and...
Dennis left European Sign Language Center in September 2015.
After 6 years of elevating sign language to serve a richer purpose Ashoka Fellow Dennis Lennartsson shifted his work to focus on creating a web tool for sign language translation in developing countries, founding SignReader which he now...
Kenji Hayashi is rejuvenating rural areas suffering from depopulation. By creating a new pathway for emerging urban professionals to build their careers as change agents in rural municipalities, Kenji is creating a system that enables the sustainable development of struggling rural communities.
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Built from his own experiences, Stéphane has developed the concept of "gathering opposites.” In a French context where social cohesion is increasingly crumbling, he bridges the gaps in the community by activating two powerful levers to peaceful coexistence: dialogue across differences and our desire...
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