Written by: Mako Muzenda When Rachita Saraogi and Rebecca Thomson were studying design at Central Saint Martins, they noticed a trend that would ignite their desire to start Sisterhood. “Sisterhood began as a research project,” explains Saraogi. The number of...
How about helping to promote peace in a country with war history while developing the start-up ecosystem? That was Steven Stavrou and his co-founder Burak Doluay’s idea. Written by: Stephanie Blum Steven has a strong connection with Cyprus, an island divided for over...
Written by: Stephanie Blum “You never know how powerful an idea is until you go out and put it into action”, those were the words from Yunus&Youth Fellow Tyler Vogel as advice to young students when he was invited to speak at high school graduation last month....
Written by: Stephanie Blum Rihab Hasanain, 35 years old and mother of 2, is an amazing woman. Not just she is an assistant professor in the largest female university in the world, Princess Noura University, and passes her knowledge to empower female students and...
Written by: Lucas Bernar Yunus&Youth Fellow Madhav Datt was 8 years old when he first realized water scarcity was a huge problem. He was in a science class when the teacher said that the water table in India was falling by almost two feet every year. At the time,...
Written by: Mako Muzenda When Ignacio Rodriguez started Epix in late 2015, he was driven by a desire to tell human stories. He had previously worked in France at a company that combined education and technology. This was the beginning of his journey in social...
Written by: Sierra Goerg Utilizing technology to help refugees, Yunus&Youth fellow Yasmin Morais and her team are determined to close the gap of access to education among children refugees with their application, RefEd. When Yasmin was 15 years old, she had the...
Written by: Marcela Lessa Social entrepreneurship is generating ever-increasing interest as an innovative and sustainable approach to development, job creation, and poverty alleviation. The Yunus&Youth Fellowship Program supports young social business leaders in...
On a mission to catalyse negative news headlines into a force for good. Written by: Caroline do Carmo Y&Y Fellow Kasha Sequoia Slavner is a 20-year-old filmmaker and social entrepreneur who grew up in Toronto, Canada in a single-parent household. Kasha’s...
What are Y&Y Fellows doing to promote youth economic empowerment? Written by: Marcela Lessa One in four people alive today is a young person aged 15 to 29: that’s nearly 1.8 billion in total, of whom close to 90% live in developing countries. 621 million young...
