WORKING DIFFERENTLY CHALLENGE: WHAT TRUE PARTNERSHIP LOOKS LIKE

True localisation happens when local organisations develop their own theories of change, design their programmes, and mobilise resources to implement. It’s not when international NGOs subcontract local organisations to implement programmes. As the pandemic and its economic impact started to bite, A...
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Sibling Changemakers Improve Communities Through STEM: Trisha and Tejas's Journey

Trisha and Tejas share their story about how they are mobilizing their shared passions for education and technology to lead change.
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These new allies for governments can help attain equitable, lasting change

A new report titled “New Allies” identifies action areas for governments to foster collaboration with systems social entrepreneurs, who can be crucial allies for governments in tackling the challenges societies face

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A Young ChangemakHER story - Rofida Essam increasing access to first aid training

Rofida is one of the winners of the 2019 Young ChangemakHERs Transformative Journey and Competition. She has been actively working on shifting community mindsets in Cairo to raise awareness about the importance of First Aid by increasing people's access to training. Despite the challenges in 2020...
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Who Cares? Putting Careers On The Global Agenda

All people are carers, in some way or for some time. Routine caring is innate—we raise children, tend to sick relatives, look after aging parents, form bonds of love and friendship that hold caring as implicit. However, among us—we, the general carers—is a critical population of more specialized...
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Table for Ten: Social entrepreneurs take on longevity and aging

How 10 Ashoka Fellows are redefining the experience of aging in countries around the world

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Five insights to rewrite the narrative around aging

Demographic shifts offer a chance to shape the future of humanity. Social entrepreneurs show us how

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Defending privacy in the age of surveillance

Albert Fox Cahn on why we need to update the social contract for the digital age

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The New Longevity: Brazil's Gig Economy For Seniors

Sérgio Serapião was in his thirties when he began inviting Brazilian seniors out for a cup of coffee. A decade later, Brazilians over 60 still convene the Café com Vida, or “coffee with life” in cities throughout the country. These gatherings offer seniors a public forum to re-engage in community...
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Forget Memory, Try Imagination: A Social Innovator Takes On Dementia

Are you creative? Of course you are, says social entrepreneur Anne Basting, who for three decades has unleashed innate creativity in seniors, their families and caregivers, and nursing home staff. When memory fades, what survives is imagination, a creative force so powerful that it can break...
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The Contagious Power of Changemaker Education: Timo's Changemaker Journey

Timo, a young changemaker from Switzerland, is on a path to reimagine education through design thinking and project-based learning. Embedded within his story are the early years of social entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow Christiane Daepp, an ally, and advocate for young people like Timo to be...
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Healing the Divide Amongst Physicians and His Community: Diego’s Changemaker Journey

Diego, a changemaker from Mexico, is activating his peers in medical school to develop the skills of empathy, emotional intelligence, and active listening so they can better support the health and wellbeing of their patients.
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Inclusivity in Zambia: Memory's Changemaker Journey

This is the story of how Memory and her peers in Zambia are advocating for people with albinism and activating others to create a safer and more inclusive society.
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Yusuf Is Helping Teens Turn Their Passion Into A Profession

So often parents stand as an obstacle to young people working in their passions. Yusuf is seeking to change this. Read more.
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Our world is changing fast. Five insights we’re taking into 2021.

Reflections for the future of education, employment, and young leadership

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Six new books by Ashoka Fellows

Inspiring reads for your 2020 reading list

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A values-based philosophy for social change: Runa Khan’s Journey to Changemaking

As a serial social entrepreneur in poverty alleviation and mindset shift, Runa is constantly pioneering new ways of learning, working, and living together. Runa's journey starts with her upbringing and the influential role of her parents in cultivating a lifelong philosophy for social transformation...
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Ashoka Fellow Meher Khelifi journey to break down social insurance barriers: “I want to help every single woman that has no social or health coverage”

Meher Khelifi, newly elected Ashoka Arab World Fellow and founder of Ahmini, shared with us his first reactions to becoming an Ashoka Fellow, the challenges he faced along the way, and his experience pursuing social security coverage for women in rural Tunisia.
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The Voice of Appalachia

Ashoka Fellow Brandon Dennison, founder and CEO of Coalfield Development: "When I say Appalachian person, really truly what comes to mind? Because there's a good chance it's a stereotype, it's a redneck, or hillbilly, or a Trump voter. Appalachian people are tough and and resilient, and and also...
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Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance: Data and power to the people

Ashoka Fellow Sharon Terry is improving health outcomes for patients who have genetic diseases by aligning incentives and structures so that they facilitate, rather than obstruct, the continuum of research, drug development, treatment, advocacy, and support. “If I name a song, you can download it...
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