Archive for India

Call For Applications for IISE 2012 Program

The International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs (IISE) empowers people that have overcome significant life challenges ranging from vision impairment, disability, poverty, war, discrimination and exploitation in order to help them in setting up their own social project. It trains its participants in skills like management, public speaking, communication, leadership, fund raising, budgeting, bookkeeping, marketing and [...]

ASVA Countdown: Anand Kumar, founder LifeSpring Hospital

India has many private hospitals, but most are financially out of reach for low-income citizens. Those hospitals that offer free services sometimes cannot provide quality health care. Enter Lifespring Hospital, which provides high-quality care at low prices, particularly to women and children. We caught up with Anand Kumar prior to him attending our Asia Social [...]

Asia’s Social Changemakers: Paul Kronenberg – Braille Without Border

Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg share a dream. Climbing mountains and crossing streams to follow their dreams come easy for this couple who envisage a bright future for the visually impaired. Sabriye’s life has been devoted to making that dream come true for her and thousands of others who share her disability.  Although Sabriye lost [...]

Asia’s Social Changemakers: Vishal Talreja

Formerly an investment banker and venture capitalist, Vishal Talreja is the founder and director of Dream a Dream, an organization committed to promoting “lifeskills” education for vulnerable children in Bangalore, India, through innovative programs and strategic partnerships with other social sector organizations, private sector groups, and volunteers.

Watch Banking On Change: An inspirational short film

Two-thirds of India’s population of a billion people live in the nation’s 600,000 villages. Despite India’s economic growth, the disparities between wealth and poverty are enormous. Many villagers migrate to the cities in search of work and end up begging on the streets. South Indian bank manager J S Parthiban set out to do something [...]

Asia’s Young Changemakers: Manoj Vasudevan

More and more companies are looking at the bottom billion, the million of poor people, worldwide as customers for the products and services. Not many however, look at the poor as pool of talented yet underdeveloped employee pool as Manoj does. Despite India’s many advances, there are eight million educated unemployed youth in India’s countryside. [...]

Mobile 2.0 applications: Potential use among BOP in emerging Asia

Posted by Nirmali Sivapragasam on Lirne Asia An article by an Indian journalist who attended the recently concluded Expert Forum in Islamabad, summarizes various “Mobile 2.0? initatives deployed by emerging South and Southeast Asian countries in recent years. “Mobile 2.0? applications can be described as those which offer services which are more-than-voice, such as payments, money [...]

Change the World for the price of a few coffee drinks

3 amazing young social entrepreneurs and FYSE Paragon fellows from Asia Pacific have been selected to attend the upcoming Unreasonable Institute and you can help them to impact millions of lives! The Unreasonable Institute is a social entrepreneurship incubator created to host summer institutes where a confluence of young, brilliant, social entrepreneurs undergo rigorous and [...]

Asia’s Young Changemakers: Ketan Deshpante

A student finds the entrance test to an engineering college a never-to-be-forgotten struggle. Most others would simply grumble. Not Kedar Deshpande. He turned the problem into an opportunity, producing a primer for fellow sufferers — a sort of “all you want to know about…” booklet containing the low-down on engineering colleges and their entrance tests. [...]

view: How to encourage Social entrepreneurship in B-schools in India

Druvh Lakhra, founder of social enterprise Mirakle Courier, recently voiced his opinion how to facilitate social entrepreneurship among b-schools in India: He points out two issues on the subject of the wider space of social entrepreneurship and careers in the nonprofit sector. The first one is related to the branding and perception of the social [...]