Tobias Leenaert's Six Word Story: 'Eating The World A Better Place'
This is the fifth post in our “6-Word Story Series,” highlighting insights, how-to’s and stories from the world of social impact driven specifically by our network of over 3100 Fellows across the globe. Click here to read the fourth post in the series. (And here for the sixth.) After learning that...
#LeadYoung - Why Waste? Learning to See the Glass as Half Full
“The best ideas come from people like us, people of our age,” says Garvita. “We have fresh, growing and innovating minds."
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...
Women Social Innovators are Changing the Game in Asia
Young changemakers are often brave enough to take unconventional routes in making meaningful changes in our society. Here are stories of four female entrepreneurs who visited the Philippines this July for the ChangemakerXChange summit, a global platform co-created by Ashoka and the Robert Bosch...
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...
Nordahl Grieg Videregående Skole
Nordahl Grieg Videregående Skole (NGV) was founded in 2010 with the vision “Bold minds interacting”. To ensure a supportive, stimulating and communicative learning environment, the school has five core values: openness, human dignity, democracy, inclusion and sustainability. To understand and being...
UWC Red Cross Nordic
UWC Red Cross Nordic (UWC RCN) was founded in 1995 in Norway, and their mission is “to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future”. In this regard, the school adopted ‘deliberate diversity’ as their educational model and gave priority to create...
Ashoka European Changemaker Summit
Looking at Europe from a different angle: As origin to impactful social innovations and their founders When speaking about Europe today we often focus on the challenges in politics or administration. What Ashoka, a globally active non-profit organization and network of what they call changemakers,...