Bina Nepram: Her Continued Path Through Exile
Binalakshmi Nepram's dedication to creating a women-led, micro-disarmament movement forced her into exile, yet the power of her work continues to grow.
Building a Movement for Dalit Rights: A Conversation with Christina Dhanaraj
Tracking stories of community-driven change.
Nota de Repúdio
A Ashoka Brasil assinou uma carta de repúdio à uma fala dita no dia 07/10 pelo candidato à presidência Jair Bolsonaro - PSL.
Ashoka’s Raj Jayadev recognized as 2018 MacArthur fellow
Ashoka Fellow Raj Jayadev was just named a 2018 MacArthur Fellow for exceptional creativity. Raj is the creator and champion of participatory defense, a growing movement that gives families and friends of accused persons a way to contribute to the defense of their loved one. In a country that...
Early-stage Entrepreneurs Can Drive New Social Movements
When we say these emerging leaders mine their personal experiences, we mean they tap into their own history and context to uncover discrete issues that cause inequity and structural disparity. Ashoka Fellow T. Morgan Dixon and co-founder Vanessa Garrison mined their personal experiences to focus on...
Shifo’s MyChild solutions are designed with and for frontline workers, enabling them to easily track individual children and entire communities’ immunization records and preventive health needs over time, which is currently used by over 600 health service delivery points across Afghanistan, Uganda...
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Who Will Win the Duel? - Building Full Information Citizenship
Editor's note: This post was written by Alison Craiglow Hockenberry, contributing editor at Ashoka Changemakers®, and originally featured on the Idea exChange Blog. It's a duel, quite possibly to the death. The bad guys: Censorship, surveillance, sabotage, fraud. The good guys: Freedom, access to...
In the close-knit culture of Sweden, corporate hiring operates on networking, personal relationships, and references. To a large degree, immigrant communities do not have access to these resources. Sofia Appelgren has launched a program that matches the most dynamic and entrepreneurial persons with...
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Saurav is bridging the critical human and financial resources gap needed to unlock the economic potential of Panchayat, ensure maximum fund utilization and last mile service level delivery to the villages across India. By engaging Panchayat and making them SwaNigamit (Self Corporatised), his...
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