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Reconocimiento nacional a un Fellow Ashoka por su trayectoria

El Gran Premio FNA y los Premios a la Trayectoria Artística son las máximas distinciones que otorga el Fondo Nacional de las Artes y tienen como fundamento reconocer anualmente la obra de artistas que, en mérito a su labor intelectual y creativa, han contribuido de manera positiva a enriquecer el...

Got Empathy? Kids Do!

Ashoka Fellow Cindy Blackstock, a member of the Gitksan First Nation of British Columbia, is building a vibrant social movement to change the discriminatory policies and actions toward First Nations children in Canada. Through the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, Blackstock is building...

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Ashoka PH: Fellow Launch & Induction 2020

Now in its 40th year, the Ashoka Fellowship has supported and enabled close to 4,000 leading social innovators from 92 countries. Ashoka Philippines is proud to welcome three new Fellows who are working for the benefit of all Filipinos - Scott Stiles of Fair Employment Foundation; Ben Abadiano of...

Nerlian Gogali

Ashoka Fellow since Mar 2013

Indonesia

Institut Mosintuwu

With the experience of violent upheaval, Indonesia’s diverse culture, ethnicity, and religion remain potent areas of communal conflict. Lian Gogali has created a method for trauma healing and cultivating empathy by which women and children transform themselves from victims, into survivors and...

Nina Simon

Ashoka Fellow since May 2019

United States

Of/By/For All

Through OF/BY/FOR ALL, Nina Simon is building a global movement that challenges the expectations of “public institutions” by helping organizations of all kinds become of, by, and for their communities.

Eugen Vaida

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2021

Romania

Asociatia Monumentum

Photo credit - Alex Gâlmeanu Growing up and living in the Transylvania countryside, Eugen experienced the feeling of lost identity that leads people to ignore their heritage, dismiss their history and migrate to the city or other countries. Eugen is a guardian of the local cultural identity and uses... Read more

Brendan Tobin

Ashoka Fellow since Nov 1997

Peru

A barrister from Ireland, Brendan Tobin has developed a program that enables indigenous groups and nongovernmental organizations to make their own decisions and to participate in the negotiation of commercial contracts involving natural and genetic resource rights.

Remodelling India post COVID-19

There has been a recognition and identification that the value systems that drive and underpin the development efforts by all of the stakeholders moves towards viewing the world holistically beyond our human world, acknowledging interconnectedness, embracing plurality, a resilient and sustainable...

Thaise Guzzatti

Ashoka Fellow since Feb 2007

Brazil

Thaise has developed an agrotourism model that brings new sources of income to rural families, prompts rural development, preserves local culture and community, and benefits tourists.

Socorro Guterres

Ashoka Fellow since Oct 2002

Brazil

Socorro Guterres is putting Brazil's racial and cultural history in a positive light by changing the ways in which racial identity is treated in the public school system.