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Halime Güner

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2006

Turkey

Uçan Süpürge

Halime and her team are giving voice to the women of Turkey, by building networks of local feminist journalists, by leveraging the feminist media content and collaborating with feminist art initiatives. In the last 20 years, the platform has remained as one of the most impactful collaborators of...

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Tracey Chambers

Ashoka Fellow since Jun 2018

South Africa

The Clothing Bank

Tracey is economically empowering the most marginalised unemployed mothers and fathers in township communities of South Africa. Using excess stock from retail companies, she creates a fluent supply of merchandise which she merges with a holistic program that focuses on creating self-reliance as a...

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Mehmet Atakan Foça - Teyit

Turkish journalist Atakan Foça is creating tools, spaces, and infrastructure for citizens to hold media institutions accountable to the verifiable truth.

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Entrevista Ashoka na TV ALESP

Helena Singer e Wellington Nogueira vão ao programa Terceiro Setor da Tv Alesp para falar sobre a Ashoka.

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Ashoka na Mídia

Reunimos aqui uma série de reportagens sobre a Ashoka que saem nas mídias brasileiras.

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Ashoka Fellow Juan David Aristizábal Ospina: 'If You Are Using Your Talents, You Are Changing the World'

Ashoka Fellow Juan David is a 23-year-old social entrepreneur who founded the organization Buena Nota in Colombia. Juan David recently visited Ashoka's global headquarters in Rosslyn, VA where he spoke about his new book, "Llenando Espacios" (Filling the Void) and about his experiences as a social...

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Sixto Cancel

Ashoka Fellow since Mar 2019

United States

Think Of Us

By transforming the way thousands of young people age out of foster care, Sixto Cancel is transforming the overall child welfare and foster care system itself. He’s doing this by hacking the case management system to not only put young people in charge, but to use the data he gleans from successful...

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Future Forum Cheat Sheet: Why Journalism Is Like Really Bad Parenting (And How We Can Fix It)

The face of journalism is changing. The wave of new media has brought with it more chances for us to get involved in our world, whether that’s by signing an online petition, backing a Kickstarter campaign or sharing a news story with our social media circles. For journalists, there’s a new goal: don...

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Who Cares

"We are not guests here, we're creators, we create our own life, we create our own world. (…) We must imagine what kind of world we want to create, and start doing that." – Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (Bangladesh), Ashoka’s Global Academy Member, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. This is...

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Peer Tutor Reading: Creating Friends, Refining Ability, Cultivating Compassion

How a school in Vancouver, Canada, is connecting multi-aged students through reading buddies It’s not always easy for second graders to learn how to read, but it’s a lot more challenging when they’re learning to read in a foreign language. This is the scenario at Lord Tennyson, a French immersion...

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