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What started as one project for that nobody believed would work, has now become a possible model for the government to provide healthcare to hard-to-reach communities

- Article écrit dans le cadre du partenariat entre Ashoka et L'Express à l'occasion de la soirée de présentation des Fellows Ashoka 2017 - "Cet ancien consultant a créé à Paris un nouveau genre de cabinet médical qui repense le parcours santé au bénéfice des patients et des praticiens." Découvrez le...

Oskar Blakstad from Norway, founder of Explorable AS/Assisted Self-Help, was elected as a Fellow in 2018. Ashoka Scandinavia is excited to announce that Oskar Blakstad from Norway has been elected as an Ashoka Fellow . With Explorable AS and Assisted Self-Help, Oskar is leveraging the Norwegian...

Who can best create outcomes that lead to the healthiest possible lives of individuals and communities? Leading social entrepreneurs are challenging the traditional patient-provider dynamics from an empathetic and holistic perspective.

Following up on the Social Impact Mapping Project where Ashoka NL, in collaboration with PwC, provided an overview of the different innovators in the fields of Health Care, Circular Economy and Refugees in the Netherlands by visualising a part of the ecosystem a map through snowball sampling...

There is a global crisis in healthcare; the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that one billion people lack access to basic care, and a further 100 million are pushed into poverty trying to access it. The situation doesn’t look likely to improve. The WHO estimates that there will be a deficit...

Farouk Jiwa is establishing secure and sustainable ways to increase the income levels of rural farmers in East Africa. His organization, Honey Care Africa, is not just helping subsistence farmers supplement their income through beekeeping. Farouk has partnered with civil society organizations to...

Ashoka Fellow Bart Weetjens' organization, APOPO, trains HeroRats (giant pouched rats) to detect land mines in Africa. Bart is also employing their superb noses to detect tuberculosis. Bart and APOPO were just featured in CNN, and you can read the article here: Be sure check it out and see how you...

Ashoka Vice-President of Global Marketing Beverly Schwartz has contributed a chapter to a new book on the role of community-based organizations and non-governmental organizations in public health. Igniting the Power of Community: The Role of CBOs and NGOs in Global Public Health, edited by Paul...