by Marcela | Apr 12, 2019 | Blog
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 building financially...
by Marcela | Jan 29, 2019 | Fellows Stories
On a mission to catalyse negative news headlines into a force for good. 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 socially concerned mother Marla...
by Marcela | Jan 29, 2019 | Fellows Stories
What are Y&Y Fellows doing to promote youth economic empowerment? 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 people are not in education,...
by Marcela | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog
www.yunusandyouth.com/apply Deadline: February 18th, 2019 11:59PM EST Are you building a business to create a better world? Apply now for the Yunus&Youth (Y&Y) Global Fellowship Program for Social Business Entrepreneurs. The Y&Y Fellowship Program is a...
by Marcela | Oct 12, 2018 | Fellows Stories
The entrepreneurial journey—especially the social entrepreneur’s journey—can be very exciting and fulfilling, while at the same time very challenging. Fulfilling because it feels like you are living your life’s purpose, exciting because you are tackling societal...
by Marcela | Oct 10, 2018 | Fellows Stories
Empowering women with special skills in Azerbaijan Paris, January, 2015. It is the middle of the night and a strange young woman knocks on Adam’s door. It is cold and there is no one else on the street anymore. Even though he is by himself at home, Adam feels...
by Marcela | Sep 21, 2018 | Fellows Stories
“Learning how to learn will set us free” Traditional education is based on a teacher-centered delivery method directed at students, who are simply recipients of information. This top-down system was designed during the industrial age to meet the needs of...
by Marcela | Aug 21, 2018 | Fellows Stories
What if you could be a superhero in a child’s life? This is the story of a very curious boy who loved exploring and learning new things. At age 10 he learned how to code and hacked into his school’s computers. When the principal called his parents into his...
by Marcela | Aug 14, 2018 | Fellows Stories
Bringing light to Brazilians in remote areas Yunus&Youth Fellow Laís Higashi is a 26-year-old Brazilian raised in a family of strong Japanese women. After World War II, many Japanese children had lost their parents, and Laís’ great-grandmother felt the urge...
by Marcela | Jul 10, 2018 | Fellows Stories
Improving the world, one brick at a time Burnt-clay bricks are among the most popular building materials in India, and the country is their second-largest producer in the world, delivering 200 billion bricks every year. While the brick industry’s rise has increased...
