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Sudeepto has spent his teenage years creating audio books for blind children. Read more about how Sudeepto is spreading change.

Computer programming is a skill that changes our lives everyday. Shawon wants to make sure it is skill accessible to Bangla speakers. Read his story here. Bangla version.

Listen to the powerful conversation between Ashoka Fellow, Runa Khan and Youth Venturers

Bacolod-based social enterprise Bagosphere won the top prize of 100,000 Australian dollars (Php3.9 million) last April 19 in Frontier Innovators, a search for innovative businesses in the Asia-Pacific by the Australian government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Bagosphere...

Bacolod-based social enterprise BagoSphere has bagged the top prize at Frontier Innovators, an initiative of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. BagoSphere, which provides programs that prepare disadvantaged youth for a better future, has just won AU$100,000 or P3.9...

Joachim Körkel, Norbert Kunz, Heidrun Mayer und Rose Volz-Schmidt haben einiges gemeinsam. Alle haben neue Wege gefunden, gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen wirkungsvoll zu lösen, alle bezeichnen sich als Sozialunternehmer und alle werden von Ashoka unterstützt. Aber noch viel spannender an dieser...

25 junge Sozialunternehmer aus 15 Ländern kamen beim changemakerXchange Summit in Berlin und Paretz zusammen, um Ideen und Erfahrungen auszutauschen und internationale Partnerschaften zur Lösung gesellschaftlicher Probleme zu bilden. In Berlin dabei war Milena Glimbovski. Mit 22 Jahren war sie eine...

16 Young Changemakers redefining the role of youth

Ever since Bill Drayton's founding of Ashoka, the organization has had a keen focus on the potential of young people to drive change. A crucial part of that according to Syeda Sarwat Abed (Founder and Director, BRAC Institute of Languages) involves enabling the youth to build critical empathy and...