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Germán Montero

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2016

Argentina

Germán co-founded the Environmental South Association in 2007 to actively and respectfully reconnect people with nature in the rapidly urbanized cities in Patagonia. Through urbanization, younger generations of Argentinians are separated from a variety of natural environments. With an absence of...

Germán Montero

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2016

Argentina

ASOCIACION AMBIENTE SUR

Germán es socio fundador de la Asociación Ambiente Sur en la localidad de Río Gallegos cuyo objetivo es promover la integración armoniosa de los habitantes de la ciudad con su entorno natural. La calidad de vida de las personas depende en un amplio grado de la calidad de su entorno, sin embargo...

Amina Evangelista Swanepoel

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2017

Philippines

Roots of Health

Amina Evangelista Swanepoel has been empowering girls through health education

Amina Evangelista Swanepoel

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2017

Philippines

Roots of Health

“'Something happened',” Amina Evangelista Swanepoel pauses. “It was always how they explained their pregnancy: ‘My parents were away and my boyfriend came over and something happened and now I’m pregnant’.” Amina is talking about the female students of her mother, Susan Evangelista...

Palawan’s New Ashoka Fellow

Amina Evangelista Swanepoel

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2017

Philippines

Roots of Health

On Thursday, February 21, Palawan resident and social entrepreneur Amina Evangelista Swanepoel became one of the three latest inductees into the very prestigious Ashoka Fellowship in an elegant ceremony in the Arts Center of Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. Her husband Marcus and...

Sharon Gamson Danks

Ashoka Fellow since Jul 2017

United States

Green Schoolyards America

Sharon Danks inspires and enables communities to enrich their school grounds and use them to improve children’s well-being, learning and play while contributing to the ecological health and resilience of their cities.

Ashoka Netherlands Announces Wietse Van Der Werf as their Latest Fellow

Ashoka Netherlands is delighted to announce the election of their latest Fellow Wietse van der Werf. Wietse is the founder and CEO of the Sea Ranger Service, which has been established to revolutionize ocean conservation. The organisational model combines the empowerment of unemployed youths and re...

Meet Ajai Gopi, The Design Enthusiast Leading Change In Farming #LeadYoung

Ajay Gopi greets you with a shy, heart-warming smile. As is usual, the now twenty-year-old is accompanied by his camera – photography is one of his greatest passions. As he happily chats away, one is hardly likely to suspect that he is quietly working to revolutionise Indian farming systems. In fact...

Riccarda Zezza

Ashoka Fellow since Feb 2016

Italy

MAAM - Maternity As A Master

Dopo aver lavorato per più di 20 anni nel mondo delle imprese, Riccarda ha notato che mentre l'assenza dal lavoro per conseguire un Master è incoraggiata e addirittura sostenuta finanziariamente dalle aziende, lo stesso non può dirsi per il congedo di maternità. Nel 2012, dopo essere ritornata dal...

Joost Van Engen

Ashoka Fellow since Mar 2016

Netherlands

Healthy Enterpreneurs

By innovating a truly sustainable supply chain including the last-mile that is independent of national healthcare systems, Joost van Engen is creating sustainable access to essential medicines, hygiene products and supplements for low income families in remote areas, while at the same time providing...