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Meet Some Recently Elected RIF Fellows

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...

Giant Rats put Noses to Work on Africa's Land Mine Epidemic

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...

The Freedom to Innovate: The Contributions of Social Entrepreneurs to the Field of Global Public Health

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...

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...

Balancing the Bicycle

Einstein said, “Life is like riding a bicycle – to keep your balance you must keep moving.” I have never been a poster boy for managing a good Work/Life balance. With a full-time commitment to my project with Ashoka Fellow Andrés Martínez Fernández's organization EHAS and a startup non-profit of my...