Amina Evangelista Swanepoel has been empowering girls through health education
Palawan’s New Ashoka Fellow
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.
Drishtee: Building a Network of Women Entrepreneurs in Health
Imagine having to ask your mother-in-law before being allowed to visit a doctor for a check-up. That’s often the case in rural India, where women don’t have the autonomy to make decisions about their own health, according to Dr. Minal Singh. “Women don’t have power in the home to make decisions...
A Huge Energy Came Through the Prison Walls to Me
We in Hungary who are fighting for the freedom of an Ashoka Fellow Dr. Agnes Gereb, for the right of midwives to assist at homebirths and for the rights of Hungarian mothers' to fulfill their constitutional right to homebirth have been so fortunate to have Ashoka as our ally and friend. From the...
Tightrope Enterprises
Managing any type of social enterprise is truly a tightrope act: you have to find this perfect balance between implementing effective programming, while also keeping yourself afloat administratively. Working with Lua Nova for the last six months has shown me the various strategies organizations in...
Yes, We Can Do It
Barbara Grizzuti-Harrison said “Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.” I am quoting this statement because I love it and it reminds me of all the inspirational women in the Birthing Project USA. While I was flying from New Orleans to San Diego for...
A Family Joined, with English There is Easy Communication with Community
“Nancy, can you believe it? I can say everything I want in English. There is no need anymore to try hard finding a word to convey my intent.” I am very happy and proud of this achievement and thankful to Joyce fertility support centre group for their effort. The ability helps me speak out more...
Balancing the See-saw of Research and Interventions
I’m working more and more with a huge variety of people to set up SNEHA’s new community resource centers (CRC’s) in 20 slum areas of Mumbai. My days are filled with research group meetings looking at data from past projects and the government, concept meetings planning what interventions we will...