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Seeing the Road Ahead: Women in the Driver’s Seat for Change

The Soronko Academy, founded by Ashoka Fellow Regina Honu (nee Agyare), exemplifies innovative women’s organizations that are challenging industry standards and stereotypes. Soronko provides women and girls with skills, and Regina takes seriously the role Soronko plays in modeling how they can enter...

Mauro Antonio Vargas Urías

Ashoka Fellow since Jun 2019

Mexico

GENDES A.C.

Mauro is inspiring a cultural shift towards gender equity and the inclusion of gender perspectives in laws, workplace programs, and school curricula throughout Mexico, through impactful collaborations across sectors and within various government bodies.

Remembering Ashoka India Fellow Nitin More

It is with deep sorrow and regret that we inform your that one of our very own, Nitin More, passed away on the 26th of January 2011. Nitin was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2009 for the wonderful work he did with women living in the slums of Dharavi, Mumbai. He set up an organization, LEARN Mahila...

Peer Educators, Myths, and World AIDS Day

1 in 4 sex workers in Bali are suffering from HIV. And those are the ones that have already been tested, not the host of others that have not. That is quite a large percentage, but these women have been tested, and many are being treated. The real problem lies in the housewives and the newborns...

What is a Mother Worth?

“No one has ever believed in me except Lua Nova,” proclaimed one young mother who has battled a lifetime of domestic violence, homelessness, and drug abuse in the favelas of São Paulo, Brazil. She and the rest of the residents of Lua Nova’s rehabilitation program have been engaged the past three...

Leading Women ChangemakeHERS Reveal Blueprints for Action

Celebrating the International Women’s Day Centennial Imagine a master class for social change: an academy of action where concrete advice, guidance, and direction for every level of changemaking – from the first spark of an idea to the scaling of an innovation across the globe – are shared by some...

A Huge Energy Came Through the Prison Walls to Me

We in Hungary who are fighting for the freedom of an Ashoka Fellow Dr. Agnes Gereb, for the right of midwives to assist at homebirths and for the rights of Hungarian mothers' to fulfill their constitutional right to homebirth have been so fortunate to have Ashoka as our ally and friend. From the...

Ashoka's Changemakers Reflects on ChangemakeHERS Campaign, Women's Issues

In honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, Ashoka's Changemakers launched the inaugural ChangemakeHERS movement, celebrating the work and social impact of some of the world's most inspirational women. Building on Ashoka's 30-year history as a pioneer in social entrepreneurship...

Nani Zulminarni

Ashoka Fellow since Jul 2007

Indonesia

Program for Women Headed Households in Indonesia (PEKKA - Perempuan Kepala Kelu…

Nani Zulminarni is reversing the pattern of discrimination against women who head their households by educating and enabling them to generate resources to provide for their families and raise their position in the community. She also educates the public on the critical role these women can play in...

Jessica Ladd

Ashoka Fellow since Jul 2018

United States

Callisto

Jess has designed a new victim-centered way to report sexual assault, identify repeat offenders, and provide institutions – beginning with universities – with relevant data to guard against and respond to the problem.