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Nestor Bonilla Somarriba: Blockchain with Social Purpose
The Digital Bonds founders are from Nicaragua, where they gained years of experience in the non-profit world, moving from being volunteers to being in leadership positions, and then to freelancing. But they left their native country during the 2018 crisis and are now...
Positive Peace and Social Entrepreneurship
Positive Peace and Social Entrepreneurship Our learnings from the the Institute of Economics and Peace workshop On January 20th, the Y&Y Community had a very special workshop. The Institute Economics and Peace (IEP) joined us online to share the Positive...
Virtual education without limitations
On the International Day of Education, we want to celebrate lifelong learning and all social entrepreneurs working hard to create educational opportunities. Throughout the past 6 years, we have been supporting young social entrepreneurs through virtual training and...
Corina Angelescu: “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 the period and form factory workers, not creators. It...
Publiseer: Allowing Creatives Worldwide to Monetize Their Work
“We are not the only ones,” thought Yunus & Youth Fellow, Chidi Nwaogu, which sparked him and his twin brother, Chika, to create an online publishing platform for African authors and musical artists. In 2017, Chidi and Chika came across a problem while trying to...
Sisterhood: when girls design their space in the world
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 women who studied design did not...
Jesselina Rana and Shubhangi Rana: Taking on taboos
Jesselina and Shubhangi started Pad2Go once they returned to their native Nepal after completing their studies in India. They have studies in Civil Engineering and Law behind them, and when they met up in Kathmandu they realised that they share a very clear...
Meet the Yunus & Youth Fellows: Igor Marinelli
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 office for a...
Y&Y Mentor Stephanie Goos shares how can corporate professionals help change the world
In my conversation with Stephanie, we reached the conclusion that, sometimes, our impact can seem abstract and distant. But we learned a valuable lesson working with Y&Y Fellows: mentoring one social entrepreneur can go a long way to change the lives of...
Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Elevate Persons with Disabilities: An interview with Y&Y Fellow Gabriela Ferreiro, founder and Co-Director of Libertate
Y&Y: Tell us about Libertate. Why does it exist? Gabriela: Libertate was born in the face of a very strong reality of exclusion that violates the rights of people with disabilities and joins in providing solutions to promote a more just, inclusive world that...
