“Generation Social Innovation”
Saul Garlick, Founder and Executive Director of ThinkImpact, has recently initiated a discussion on Social Edge about Generations Y’s desire to make a social impact. Saul argues that Generation Y is the generation of social innovation, that they are eager to push the envelope of social change and development. He argues that the reasons that [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
Singapore’s young social entrepreneurs: Making money, doing good
Youth is wasted on the young. They’re usually feckless, sometimes clueless, and fond of spewing cliché life statements and fighting words to show that they’re fiercely independent and want to change the world before dinner time. But more often than not, it’s NATO. No Action, Talk Only. It’s not always the case though. These same [...]
Asia’s Young Changemakers: Andrew Yu and his 1kg
“1KG More” is a charity which encourages people to participate in service projects in creative ways, with the goal of bringing sustainable improvements to education in China’s less-developed areas. It was found in 2004, when Andrew was 31 and an ordinary staff of an IT company in Beijing. The idea was widely acknowledged in very [...]
Asia’s Young Changemakers: Shamila Keyani (Pakistan)
Providing affordable and accessible healthcare to the rural population of Pakistan is a big challenge due to an acute shortage of qualified healthcare specialists and adequate health facilities and the geographical isolation of some regions. It is estimated that 75% of the population of Pakistan reside in rural/remote areas where there is hardly any access [...]
Asia’s Young Changemakers: Melissa Yeung
Changing the world doesn’t always require bulging muscles, quick wit, or an affluent background. All that’s needed is an able body and a gargantuan heart. And with her big heart it was a natural development for Mel to set up the Got Heart Foundation. Got Heart Foundation helps uplift the lives of marginalized communities by [...]
Asia’s Young Changemakers: Joshua Hishey – India
Design education in India is comparatively very expensive and out of reach for most people. While in a country as rich in diversity as India there is no dearth of creativity, it needs to be supported by education and training in various aspects of Design Strategy and Application. Joshua, turned his passion for design into [...]
Asia’s Social Changemakers: Faisal Islam – Bangladesh
In Bangladesh more then 70% rural farmers are illiterate and about 98% do not know any international language (like English). Beside that they have no access to ICT for fostering their entrepreneurship with better technology adaptation, building market channel and communication linkage. Inaccessibility to ICT and modern technology due to language and technical limitations are [...]
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