Asia’s Social Changemakers: Charlene Kotwall, founder the Mustard Seed Workshop
As a change agent, Charlene Kotwall is fighting systemic poverty by providing small grass root entities with the necessary business resources to globalize their product’s exposure. Her Mustard Seed Workshop now works with partners in eight different countries and provides customers with the opportunity to purchase “Gifts that Bless”. How do you make a positive [...]
Asia’s Social Changemakers: Chen Yanqiong, founder: Lanxuanzhijia
In recent month the value and impact of entrepreneurship education in universities has been a hot topic to discuss. Chen Yanqiong highlights that exposing students to social entrepreneurship during their studies can have a significant impact on their future career choice. Chen participated at CEIBS Social Enterprise Competition with her idea to improve elderly care [...]
Asias Young Changemakers: Holly Chang, founder: Golden Bridges
In 2006, Holly Chang sold her home and belongings in America and moved to China were she invested her life savings to start Golden Bridges, a nonprofit promoting mutual understanding between China and the West through charitable projects. She is currently working on a new initiative called Project Pengyou to support the missions of the [...]
Asia’s Social Changemakers: Diane Geng, Founder: Rural China Education Foundation
Approximately 60 percent of China’s population, 800 million people, live in rural areas. In these villages today, between 80 to 90 percent of youth drop out during or right after middle school with few life-relevant skills and a sense of apathy or disdain towards their communities. This is due to a combination of factors, such [...]
Asia’s Social Changemakers: Meixin Li, founder Gift of Hope
Meixin Li is an outstanding young social entrepreneur based in Beijing, China. She has recently founded Gift of Hope, a social enterprises which works with disabled artisans and sells their beautiful handicrafts nationwide. We have caught up with her to learn more about her and her venture: How do you make a positive impact? [...]
Asia’s Social Changemakers: Charlene Wang, founder Tranquil Tuesdays
After working for the US foreign service for 6 years Charlene Wang founded Tranquil Tuesdays, a Beijing based social firm selling tea and artisan teaware. Founded on her passion for tea and her commitment for women empowerment she has build the venture to train and hire Chinese women who are having difficulty finding a job [...]
Asia’s Social Changemakers: Ryan Dick – Founder of GIGA
In 2007, Ryan Dick came to Shanghai as the award winner of Henry Luce and lectured on urban planning and architectural design in Tongji University during 2007-2008. After joining architectural firm AOO by chance and he found that his environmental protection ideas met the one of Raefer—founder of A00, so they set up GIGA. GIGA [...]
Asia’s Social Changemakers: Monika Nowaczyk, founder Cambodia Knits
Cambodia Knits is a social enterprise working with marginalized communities near Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Their goal is to produce beautiful, high quality and unique hand knit products while providing fair and flexible employment opportunities. And they are putting their profits back into the communities because they believe that putting people ahead of profit results in [...]
Qifang: College Loans for the Chinese Masses
By Jennifer L. Schenker published on Business Week Fifty million: That’s how many young Chinese cannot afford to go to college, a huge underclass that risks being locked out of the economic boom transforming China. Qifang—which means “bloom” in Chinese—aims to help. The Shanghai company is developing microfinance, China-style. Qifang has launched an online, person-to-person [...]
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. [...]
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