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How do we stop the escalating amount of violence and bullying in schools? TIME magazine featured Ashoka Fellow Mary Gordon, founder of Roots of Empathy (ROE), to address this question {here are some excerpts}: One of the most promising antibullying programs, ROE (along with its sister program, Seeds...

Jerry White – global survivor activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, co-founder of Survivor Corps, and author of I Will Not Be Broken – continues his remarkable work to help victims of violent conflict all over the world. At the age of 20, Jerry lost his leg, and nearly his life, after stepping on a...

Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (MILLEE), a non-profit organization uses mobile phone games to improve literacy skills in emerging countries. Founded in 2004, MILLEE develops human-centred, immersive and enjoyable language learning mobile games which are modelled...

The Indian Minister of Human Resource and Development, Mr. Kapil Sibal, released a $35 (Rs. 1500) tablet computer last week. The touch screen device has been designed and developed by experts from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The...

This post first appeared on the Global Health Ideas blog. It has been cross-posted with their permission. *** This is a guest post by Preethi Sundararaman, summer associate working with the FEC Healthcare for All team at Ashoka. It is a known fact that childhood obesity is on the rise, affecting one...

Ashoka fellow Shafqat Munir Ahmad’s organization Journalists for Democracy and Human Rights (JDHR) has educated over 1200 journalist to incorporate social issues into mainstream media. The success of JDHR led Shafqat to create a new initiative this year called the Infochange News and Features...

Last week, Fast Company published an article on the importance of investing in post-conflict zones to kick-start the local economy, foster entrepreneurship, and reduce the chances of a relapse. As the article states: "The global cost of conflicts is $100 billion; dishing charity cash and sleeping...

Every conversation I have about social entrepreneurship is the most important conversation I have ever had. With the movement poised for exponential growth and with all stakeholders choosing proactively to take a seat at the table, conversations in this space tend to flow in one of two directions...

Farouk Jiwa is establishing secure and sustainable ways to increase the income levels of rural farmers in East Africa. His organization, Honey Care Africa, is not just helping subsistence farmers supplement their income through beekeeping. Farouk has partnered with civil society organizations to...