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Sienna Zhiwen Xu: Bringing tools to support youth’s mental health and well-being
Tell us a bit about yourself, your background, and your experience. I was born and raised in a small village in China. In public schools, there was no mental health support for students. My sense of purpose was shrouded deeply in darkness while pleasing people...
Laura Coryton: Sharing the importance of sexual education
Tell us a bit about yourself, your background, and your experience. I grew up in a rural town miles away from the capital city and I never thought I could ever impact policy or change the country for the better in any way. But then, I decided to give online...
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...
Dr. Carolina Rosales: providing healthcare for neglected communities
In her last year of medical school in Mexico, Carolina did her mandatory year of social service in a remote rural community. At the start, she thought she would simply be at a local clinic and would be able to take care of the patients in the community. When...
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...
Manos del Monte: un taller para empoderar a las mujeres de comunidades rurales
María Norris se mudó de Buenos Aires a Chaco para trabajar con las mujeres de la zona y proveerles herramientas para generar sus propios ingresos. Hoy ya tienen una marca propia y una línea de productos de packaging sustentable. Hace cuatro años María Norris decidió...
UNIDAS: una escuela para potenciar el liderazgo femenino
María Alejandra Menaldo es oriunda de San Marcos, Guatemala. Creó una escuela en su pueblo natal para que más mujeres puedan desarrollarse en su ámbito profesional y personal. Cada vez que a Alejandra le preguntan quién es ella siempre habla de su lugar de origen: San...
Dymaxion Labs: nuevas tecnologías para generar estadísticas de impacto
La empresa creada por Federico Bayle usa imágenes satelitales y datos provenientes de sensores y de las redes sociales para generar información para el desarrollo urbano y el sector agrícola.
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
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...
