Changing the way we think about mental health
We need to shift the paradigm of how we view and address mental illness at a systemic level. Here's how some social entrepreneurs are leading the way.
L'ITALIANO CHE SI È FINTO MIGRANTE E HA RAGGIUNTO GLI STATI UNITI ATTRAVERSO IL MESSICO
L'ITALIANO CHE SI È FINTO MIGRANTE E HA RAGGIUNTO GLI STATI UNITI ATTRAVERSO IL MESSICO Flaviano Bianchini racconta il suo viaggio del 2012 oltre il confine tra i due paesi, fatto per testimoniare le difficoltà che migliaia di persone vivono ogni anno di Cristina Bettati Flaviano Bianchini, classe...
LUCIANA DELLE DONNE NEL PROGRAMMA SPAGNOLO PARA TODOS LA 2
Il programma televisivo spagnolo Para Todos La 2, in onda ogni sabato mattina alle 12.00, ha dedicato diverse puntate ai Fellow italiani di Ashoka. Il 26 Novembre 2016 è andata in onda la puntata su Luciana Delle Donne e il suo progetto Made in Carcere. Guarda qui il video, in spagnolo.
Dutch Social Health Landscape Innovation Report
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...
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...
Changing the Face of Information in Pakistan
Ashoka fellow Shafqat Munir Ahmad’s organization Journalists for Democracy and Human Rights (JDHR) has educated over 1200 journalist to incorporate social issues into mainstream media. The success of JDHR led Shafqat to create a new initiative this year called the Infochange News and Features...
Putting it into Practice: Building Local Capacity to Improve Maternal Health
It has been a month since I arrived in Argentina. I am based in Pilar, a town at the northern border of the municipal boundaries of Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires and the Province of Buenos Aires. For the next nine months, I have been matched with Ashoka Fellow Alberto Vázquez who founded an...
Ideas from the Fringe, Front and Center
Atlantic Monthly celebrates Ashoka Fellow Sakena Yacoobi in its Brave Thinkers Edition What do UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Academy Award winner Kevin Costner, and Ashoka Fellow Sakena Yacoobi have in common? They’re all among the nineteen change makers in the annual "Brave Thinkers" edition of...
New Data Shows Progress for Maternal Health
The maternal health community has been buzzing this week about a report on maternal health released by the Lancet and featured in the New York Times. The report uses new and improved maternal health data to evidence significant declines in maternal mortality worldwide between 1980 and 2008. Why is...