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
“'Something happened',” Amina Evangelista Swanepoel pauses. “It was always how they explained their pregnancy: ‘My parents were away and my boyfriend came over and something happened and now I’m pregnant’.” Amina is talking about the female students of her mother, Susan Evangelista...
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...
On Thursday, February 21, Palawan resident and social entrepreneur Amina Evangelista Swanepoel became one of the three latest inductees into the very prestigious Ashoka Fellowship in an elegant ceremony in the Arts Center of Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. Her husband Marcus and...
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...
Oskar Blakstad from Norway, founder of Explorable AS/Assisted Self-Help, was elected as a Fellow in 2018. Ashoka Scandinavia is excited to announce that Oskar Blakstad from Norway has been elected as an Ashoka Fellow . With Explorable AS and Assisted Self-Help, Oskar is leveraging the Norwegian...