Blooming Bs: providing children with healthy, nutritious, and delicious meals
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...
Providing access to safe water for all
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,...
Epix: Connecting people with the power of empathy
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...
From Classroom to Smartphone: Yunus&Youth Fellow Yasmin Morais Empowering Refugee Children with Access to Education
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...
Meet the 2019 Yunus&Youth Fellows
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...
Meet the Y&Y Fellow: Kasha Slavner
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 socially...
Meet the Yunus&Youth Fellows: Larissa Moreira and Osama Bin Noor
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...
Yunus&Youth Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship Program Opens Applications
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...
Beverly Mutindi: my social entrepreneurial journey
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...
Meet the Yunus&Youth Fellows: Sara Rajabli
Empowering women with special skills in Azerbaijan Written by: Marcela Lessa 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...