How To Build The Next Generation of India's Changemakers? Ask Ashoka Fellow, Gaurang Raval
India, with an average age of 29, will be the youngest country in the world by 2020. But are its youth ready to lead change
Ashokas Aktivitäten für mehr Jugendengagement – Ein Überblick zum internationalen Tag der Jugend
Seit 1999 wird der internationale Tag der Jugend am 12. August gefeiert. Jedes Jahr wählen die Vereinten Nationen einen anderen Themenschwerpunkt – dieses Jahr steht das Thema „Jugendengagement und Teilhabe“ im Fokus. Ashoka engagiert sich auf vielfältige Art und Weise für mehr Engagement und...
Breaking Poverty by Providing Access to Free Higher Education in South Africa
Taddy Blecher, an Ashoka fellow, founded the Maharishi Institute to try and revive a lost generation. Every day in South Africa, 4 million youths wake up with nothing to do and it pushes them on to the streets and into crime. Taddy dreamed of a way to unlocking the genius within these young people...
Bill Drayton discusses a Changemaker world with Carnegie Council
"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...
A "self-funding" education - Breaking poverty by providing access to higher education
Taddy Blecher, an Ashoka fellow, founded the Maharishi Institute to try and revive a lost generation. Every day in South Africa, 4 million youths wake up with nothing to do and it pushes them on to the streets and into crime. Taddy dreamed of a way to unlocking the genius within these young people...