Founded in 2001, Ashoka East Africa serves Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania and rapidly growing with strong connections in Burundi, Ethiopia, DRC, Djibouti, and South Sudan.
After reaching over 150 participants in 30 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, the Ashoka Visionary Program is arriving in Partnership with CARE, supported by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and PWC, in East Africa starting December 2020!
Ashoka in Africa is in the process of launching a committed and collaborative community of Ashoka Africa Builders who are eager to roll up their sleeves and support Ashoka, Ashoka Fellows, Young Changemakers on the continent to intensify and scale their impact.
We are happy to welcome more leading social entrepreneurs to the Ashoka Fellowship. From left to right: Umra Omar, Al Kags from Kenya, and Janet Maro from Tanzania
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What Ashoka does
Ashoka builds and cultivates a community of Fellows, Young Changemakers, Changemaker Institutions, and beyond who see that the world now requires everyone to be a changemaker – a person that sees themselves as capable of creating large-scale change.
Together, we mobilize (and accelerate) a movement to build an "Everyone a Changemaker" world where everyone has the right and ability to transform their societies for the better, directly addressing the new inequality facing our societies worldwide.
Ashoka’s country and regional offices around the world co-create and co-lead Ashoka’s programming. This enables our global changemaker community to capture and act upon emerging insights, knowledge, and talents of innovators from a wide range of cultural and regional contexts. See a full list of country offices
Ashoka focuses on four strategic priorities to help people understand and adapt to a world of accelerating change, where everyone is called on to be a leader:
Social Entrepreneurship
Ashoka selects world-class social entrepreneurs who are leading the way to an everyone-a-changemaker world.
Ashoka is leading a movement to transform how young people grow up so they thrive in today’s rapidly changing world where everyone must be a changemaker. Changemaking starts with empathy.
Bill Drayton emphasized to us [that] empathy is increasingly becoming our primary resource for dealing with the exponential rate of change the world is going through.
Arianna Huffington
Founder, The Huffington Post
Forbes knows that the story is change. No one sees that more clearly than Ashoka. It has an extraordinary ability both to envision the big, new patterns and to engineer their emergence.
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Ashoka has been like a light that shone on and lit my path in life. I knew I had a passion for giving back to society and at the same time entrepreneurship but never in a million years did I think I could fuse the two into one. Changemaking.
Our changemaker community consists of 4,000+ Fellows, 250+ change institutions, 100+ Young Changemakers, and 300+ partners across more than 95 countries. Together, we form a strong, diverse and vibrant ecosystem of change agents collaborating and co-leading to positively transform societies and cultures around the world. Learn more about our changemaker community
Donating to Ashoka enables us to elect new social entrepreneurs into our fellowship, provide support services to existing Fellows, and launch collaborations between Fellows, corporations, and citizen sector organizations to promote continued innovation in areas of pressing global need.
Ashoka recognizes that it cannot possibly source the world’s leading changemakers on its own. Good nominators ensure that Ashoka receives a constant flow of promising candidates as well as an invaluable perspective on the current innovation in the sector.
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