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India, with an average age of 29, will be the youngest country in the world by 2020. But are its youth ready to lead change

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

“Bugsay hangtod mabuang! (Paddle until you lose yourself!)” This is the battle cry of the Philippine Accessible Disability Services Adaptive Dragon Boat Racing Team. Composed of amputees, Deaf, Blind, and polio survivors, they are the country’s first cross-disability adaptive team. Of...

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...

For the next three weeks, as part of my commemoration of the People Power Revolution of 1986, I will write about heroes and heroines, the contemporary ones. For this column, with the help of colleague Mika Ortega, I write about Ashoka Fellows of the Philippines, a group of changemakers I work with...

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...

Eine gelungene Premiere: Beim ersten European Changemaker Summit standen Entwicklungen und Trends sozialer Innovation aus ganz Europa im Mittelpunkt.