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EIR Lessons in perspective: A Conversation with EIR alumni Juan Loraschi

For information about the Executive in Residence program visit the EIR program page, or contact us at [email protected]. BACKGROUND – MEET THE PEOPLE EIR Juan Loraschi and host Ashoka Fellow Dorien Beurskens Juan Loraschi, Western Union Regional Vice President, partnered with Dorien...
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Portrait - Louis-Xavier Leca, fondateur de La Cloche

"J'ai fondé, en 2014, La Cloche, une association d'intérêt général, qui a pour mission de changer le regard sur le monde de la rue et de recréer du lien social entre les personnes avec ou sans domicile." Louis-Xavier Leca, fellow Ashoka, explique pour le podcast d'Histoires Humaines le parcours qui...
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James Favel

Ashoka Fellow since Feb 2020

Canada
The Bear Clan Patrol

Through a community-based crime prevention approach, James is generating new social fabric for a caring society in communities with high instances of crime. His innovative approach for trust and safety building cultivates community leadership across difference to foster the emergence of peer social...

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More than Manic

Picture a Venn diagram. The left hand circle represents the personality of someone who is entrepreneurial. The right hand circle represents the personality of someone who is hypomanic. The overlap in the center—well, let’s just say it’s statistically significant. So goes the analysis at the heart of...
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Building Partnerships: A Conversation with Ashoka Fellow Mohammad Al-Ubaydli and Boehringer Ingelheim Executive Joseph Chalil

Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli is the founder of Patients Know Best (PKB), a technology platform that allows patients to securely view their medical records and share their information with other doctors and family members, giving individual patients easy access to and control over their medical data. Dr...
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Portrait : Pierre Foldès et l’Institut en Santé Génésique

Violence faite aux femmes : l’Institut en Santé Génésique rend « l’inaction inacceptable » « A l’Institut en Santé Génésique, médecins, juristes, psychologues, infirmières, s’allient avec le réseau d’acteurs sociaux existant pour faire sortir les femmes du cycle de la violence. Une approche...
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Lone Koldby

Lone Koldby

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2013

Norway
Aktivitetdosetten

Lone Koldby is humanizing long-term care for the elderly in Norway by placing activity and social interaction at the center of the care regimens in nursing homes and empowering their occupants to play active roles in designing those regimens and reclaiming their rights as senior citizens.

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A New League Of 'Barefoot Lawyers' Will Transform Justice In The Next 15 Years

For the average person, a lawyer may conjure up the image of a professional in a buttoned-down jacket straight out of the legal drama, Suits. But not to Nadim Hossain, a local pharmacist in the city of Khulna, Bangladesh. One of 300,000 Urdu-speaking Bangladeshis settled in a refugee camp set up by...
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