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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...
Carla Reinagel: Working with the local community
Carla Reinagel set up Equip Mozambique with her husband a few years ago. They first came to Mozambique in 2008, and during their first few years worked for a relief organisation. They realised, after reading the book When Helping Hurts, that the organisation they were...
A World of Three Zeros: Insights from the Y&Y Fellows Meeting with Professor Muhammad Yunus
On November 23rd, Y&Y Fellows had one of their most exciting Zoom meetings of 2020. With his optimistic wisdom and his inspiring words, Professor Muhammad Yunus joined our virtual room! In his talk, he emphasized the new path we need to build towards a more...
Adele Bruggeman: Girls’ empowerment through sports
Sports as means of empowering girls was something quite unexplored in Adele Bruggeman’s local community in Cape Town. As an athlete herself, who played soccer and lacrosse all throughout her childhood and young adult life, Adele is convinced of the value and potential...
Introducing the first cohort of Y&Y Fellows from Latin America
Después de revisar más de 340 postulaciones y entrevistar a más de 70 emprendedores ¡llegó el momento de presentar la primera camada de Y&Y Fellows LATAM!
