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Meet the Mentor: Rachel Baker

Meet the Mentor: Rachel Baker

  Being a Y&Y Mentor is a transformative experience, and I'm not talking only about the Y&Y Fellows who receive mentoring, but also about the mentors themselves. For Rachel Baker, the Y&Y Fellowship Program brought her so many new learnings that she...

Meet the Y&Y Mentor: Daphne Huang

Meet the Y&Y Mentor: Daphne Huang

  "As a mentor, you might not realize how valuable your knowledge is to a social entrepreneur, but, for anybody in business, this is a self-discovery and very rewarding opportunity." This is what Y&Y Mentor Daphne Huang would say about the Y&Y Fellowship...

Yunus & Youth + Fashion Revolution Week

Yunus & Youth + Fashion Revolution Week

  Fashion Revolution Week is a worldwide movement that happens every year in the week surrounding the 24th of April, the date of the anniversary of the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse. A tragedy that happened in Bangladesh and took mostly young women’s lives -...

Samwel Naimaisa: being the change

Samwel Naimaisa: being the change

Everything Samwel has done with Smart Shamba has been with the aim of supporting the community he is from. He comes from an area of Kenya, which is mostly very dry and so he knows from personal experience how this kind of climate affects the local population. Drought...

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