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"Young people cannot know they are Changemakers unless they have done something that proves it to themselves.” said Bill Drayton in his conversation with the Carnegie foundation on June 10, 2015. The vision for an “Everyone a Changemaker” world is very clear: The demand for industrial repetition is...

Anshu K. Gupta, Ashoka Fellow and Founder of Goonj observed that two Indias exist side-by-side: the increasingly wealthy, urban India and the impoverished, neglected rural India. Anshu realized that the vast stocks of everyday necessities - from clothes to medicines - lying as idle surplus in the...

I don’t know about you but I struggle to think of a device I could purchase that would improve my work productivity or help me save money. Actually, looking at the gadgets that clutter my desk I have probably been over-equipped for a long time. By contrast, poor families at the “base of the pyramid”...

Previously a Mechanical Engineer, Ashoka Fellow Arvind Kejriwal was elected as a Fellow due to his work which used a 2001 law called the Right to Information Act (RTIA) to bring political power back to the people of India. The law began in Delhi, and has since spread to more than eight other states...

The global community of Ashoka mourns the loss of fellow Alvaro Ugalde who along with Mario Bazo is seen as the father of Costa Rica’s National Park System. Initially, Alvaro and Mario faced a challenge in convincing Costa Ricans that national parks were of great value to the country. With the...

The Beginning: A Passion for Curbing Corruption Few people know Arvind Kejriwal’s illustrious past. A passionate anti-corruption crusader and former engineer, Kejriwal first burst into the Indian public arena after he openly questioned rampant corruption in India’s Income Tax Department. Instead of...

Daphne Nederhorst -- an Ashoka fellow, social entrepreneur, and real-world superhero -- has crowdfunded over $10,000 in advance of Sawa World Day 2015 with her globally leading social enterprise, Sawa World. Each dollar raised in the "I Am The Solution" campaign will help an African youth living in...

Lo scorso 26 e 27 febbraio si è tenuto in Italia, a Milano, il primo incontro di Ashoka: Innovare per ripartire – Gli imprenditori sociali di Ashoka come motore della crescita in Italia e nel mondo. Un’attenzione in particolare sulle tematiche del lavoro, in linea con la Task Force del G8 che vuole...