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Newsflash: Development Gives Rise to Oldest Occupation

I sometimes wonder if it’s my perception of a place or the place itself that changes. Just last year, I was in Ethiopia for a few weeks but I don’t recall being shocked at the number of sex workers that lined up on every busy street in the Addis. I definitely don’t recall there being so many when I...
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HealthPoint Services Wins Prestigious India Sankalp Award, Announces Investment by Fontus Water

NEW DELHI, India – May 12, 2011: Healthpoint Services Global, Inc., a social enterprise supported by Ashoka Innovators for the Public, has won the prestigious Sankalp Award for Innovative Social Enterprises - Emerging Ventures in the Health/Water/Sanitation sector for 2011. This award acknowledges...
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Röselidsskolan

Röselidskolan is a public Swedish primary school that is successfully working to bring entrepreneurship and real-life problem solving into the school curriculum. They are simultaneously changing Gråbo as a municipality, and the perception of education as a whole. With an education based around the...
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Eau et Vie : des entreprises sociales qui font couler l'eau dans les bidonvilles - Socialter

"On estime que d’ici 2050, 40% de la croissance urbaine mondiale se fera dans des bidonvilles. Les enjeux sanitaires de cette croissance sont immenses, en premier lieu desquels l’accès pour des millions de familles à une eau de qualité. Philippe de Roux (Fellow Ashok) rencontre la réalité des...
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Building Cities of Changemakers

When you look at the work of the young and dynamic social entrepreneur Sascha Haselmayer, founder of Citymart, you can observe many different things. Most obviously, you will see a brilliant and rapidly growing open methodology (or approach if you prefer) enabling sharing and efficiency in urban...
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Majid El Jarroudi

Ashoka Fellow since aoû 2010

France

IDEE 
Les entrepreneurs issus des quartiers (leaders de la création d’entreprises en France) manquent souvent de visibilité et d’accès aux réseaux des grandes entreprises (GE) ce qui écourte l’espérance de vie de leur PME et constitue un obstacle à la promotion de la diversité. Majid El Jarroudi...

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Paula Segal: 596 Acres

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Living Buildings: Ashoka Fellow Jason McLennan's Architectural Revolution

UPDATE: Since we posted this article, the Living Building Challenge was selected as the winner of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an annual international design challenge awarding $100K to support the development and accelerated implementation of strategies that have the potential to advance human...
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Dan Acher

Ashoka Fellow since juin 2017

Switzerland
Happy City Lab

Dan Acher is using creative placemaking to combat the isolation and separation between urban residents and build a shared sense of belonging. In doing so, he encourages citizen ownership of public spaces and invites residents to take responsibility for their city, ultimately leading to a more active...

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Ole Kassow

Ashoka Fellow since avr 2017

Denmark
Cykling Uden Alder (Cycling Without Age)

Cycling Without Age takes elderly nursing home residents, who tend to be socially excluded, back into the streets and allows them to be part of ongoing urban life. As the elderly passengers and younger cyclists co-create new experiences on trishaws, Cycling Without Age showcases the joy of...

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