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“'Something happened',” Amina Evangelista Swanepoel pauses. “It was always how they explained their pregnancy: ‘My parents were away and my boyfriend came over and something happened and now I’m pregnant’.” Amina is talking about the female students of her mother, Susan Evangelista...

Automatisierung steigert nicht nur Nachfrage nach digitalen Fähigkeiten, sondern auch nach sozialen Kompetenzen – Unternehmen müssen neue Modelle der Aus- und Weiterbildung entwickeln – Lernen von Sozialunternehmer*innen aus aller Welt BERLIN. Automatisierung und Digitalisierung stellen Unternehmen...

Ashoka Switzerland is proud to share the inspiring collaboration between two Fellows, Christophe Dunand (réalise) and Frédéric Bardeau (Simplon)

How do you translate Ashoka's vision of "everyone a changemaker" in local settings? It can start with a simple conversation.

The global community of Ashoka deeply mourns the loss of Basil Kransdorff founder of Econocom Foods, Johannesburg, South Africa. Basil's Innovative approach influenced Ashoka’s Nourishing Schools Program Basil Kransdorff’s creation of e’Pap Technologies resulted from a project his wife Rose was...

Saif Rashid believes that, given the right market opportunities, millions of Bangladeshis can lift themselves up financially. With an innovative new model called APON, he is empowering the workers of Bangladesh’s ready-made garment manufacturing industry to increase their disposable income and build...

By M-R Abraham Shirone Kaushalya works in a factory producing leather jackets. But she rarely sees the finished product. The 30-year-old woman uses a hammer to pound on the ridges and bumps of raw leather until it is smooth enough for stitching. Then she hands the flattened material to the next...

We are proud to share that Young Africa, Dutch Fellow’s Dorien Beurskens organization, is been awarded as Promising Practices award from UNESCO-UNEVOC. The Promising Practices database showcases initiatives that are successful in confronting fundamental subjects i.e. Gender equality, Youth...

One of the Dakota Access Pipeline's most devoted protestors is making his strongest stand back in his hometown. On the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Nick Tilsen, a 34-year-old member of the Oglala Lakota Nation and founding executive director of the Thunder Valley Community...