Archive for Inspiring Stories
Business Week’s selection of Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneurs
Business Week has release their finalist list for the annual Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneur award. The list includes 25 young entrepreneurs mainly from Indonesia, but also from Japan, Singapore and Korea. I found it astonishing to find no indian finalist in the list and their heavy reliance on winners from previous other entrepreneurship competition. Nevertheless [...]
Application deadline Asia Pacific Future 100!
7 days to go! Just a quick reminder that the application deadline for the Asia Pacific Future 100 program is approaching! 31st August 2009 Apply now and join the most outstanding community of young entrepreneurs and social Changemakers in Asia ! For info and applications: future100@fyse.org www.fyse.org
Asia’s Young Changemakers: Reese Fernandez (Philippines)
Great interview with Reeze Fernandenz, Co- Founder of Rags2Riches in the Philippines: Reese Fernandez Reese Fernandez might not be famous but to the people she touched, she is considered a celebrity. For a young age, she has definitely achieved and she did this is by giving back to the community. Reeze finished her BS Management [...]
Watch out! Yak Around the World Campaign
I have been a great admirer of Marie and Carol from Shokai and the work they have done here in China. Their company Shokai is in my eyes THE good case example of a social business in China and they are not only financially successful with their business, but also create tremendous impact in rural [...]
Asia’s Social Changemakers: Cindy Hu, student entrepreneur in China
China Youthology interviewing Cindy Hu: university entrepreneur talking about starting-up, employment and on-campus marketing Cindy is the founder and general manager of NISA cultural broadcasting company. She was born in 1986 and graduated from Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade last year. Cindy had started NISA in her sophomore year. NISA provides professional service of exhibition, [...]
Asia Pacific Future 100: Inspiring young entrepreneurs
More often than not, names of prominent entrepreneurs that roll off our tongues belong to our Western counterparts. The Foundation of Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE) sees the problem that young people in Asia lack role models from their societies and aims to change that with the Asia Pacific Future 100 project. The Asia Pacific Future [...]
Barefoot and…Speaking up for Her Rights
In Bangladesh, there are now 11,400 reasons to treat poor rural women fairly. They are the fleet of ‘barefoot lawyers,’ working all over the country to educate citizens, particularly women, about their rights. Sharmin is a typical barefoot lawyer. A shy woman in her 30’s, Sharmin was married at age 14, despite the fact that [...]
Social Enterpreneurs in Bangladesh: Waste Concern
Bangladesh has a garbage problem. Dhaka, a city of about 10 million has a particularly big garbage problem. Of the 3,500 tons of trash dumped each day, only half is picked up by the city. The rest is left to lie in the open streets of slums, marketplaces, vacant lots and riverbanks, attracting rats, clogging [...]
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