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What started as one project for that nobody believed would work, has now become a possible model for the government to provide healthcare to hard-to-reach communities

Many students don’t go outside to play for recess, regardless of socioeconomic status. Whether that’s because of digital devices, parental fear of “stranger danger,” or objectively unsafe neighborhoods, they lack “the breadth of knowledge about how to play or start games,” she says—and especially...

Cultivating the inner qualities of a systems change leaders through a focus on inner wellbeing and self-awareness

Ashoka is a co-creator of the Wellbeing Project, which aims to shift the culture of the social change field to one that encompasses inner wellbeing, catalyzing an infrastructure of support for everyone in the field. The Movement Wellbeing inspires welldoing: the profound connection between how our...

It began with the game of cricket and cell phones. Hilmi Quraishi recognized that together, cricket— the most popular sport in India—and cell phones, in the hands of 650 million Indians, could become a powerful health tool. In 2005, this observation led him to develop “Freedom HIV/AIDS.” A set of...

For the 330,000 people who live on the Navajo Nation, the homeplace of North American civilization, diabetes is a very real threat. One in three Navajo people is pre-diabetic or diabetic, a trend that’s escalating fast. Access to nutritious food is an underlying issue: 99% of the Navajo Nation is a...

[Seats are fully booked. No further registrations. Do follow us on our Facebook page for further details about the event.] Celebrating the first-ever Ashoka Fellows election in Malaysia and Singapore, the inaugural Ashoka Changemaker Forum will mobilise and convene change leaders from across the...

Get insights into the work Ashoka Fellows are doing to create a culture of wellbeing. In this report you’ll learn about: 4 Barriers to a Culture of Wellbeing 5 Design Principles to Tackle Systemic Change 3 Opportunities to Support the Development of this Framework 15 Social Entrepreneurs Leading the...

In this video, Parker J. Palmer, renowned author, speaker and activist, discusses his Theory of Social Movements. What makes a Rosa Parks? What makes a Vaclav Havel? What makes a Nelson Mandela? What makes these people is their capacity to take the inner life seriously, and to tap the sources of...