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Worldwide Mentorship: the Yunus & Youth Mentoring Experience
Yunus & Youth Fellows have the chance to connect with experienced mentors from all around the world. Last year, Y&Y Fellow Sara Rajabli, founder of BUTA Arts and Sweets, had the opportunity to gain insight and perspective from mentors Jyoti Menon and Alyona...
Maria Josefina: empowering women entrepreneurs in Latin America
Y&Y Fellow Andrea Rangel is a Mexican economist and founder of María Josefina. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Universidad de Monterrey and got recognized for her social project and the potential impact of this amazing initiative. When in school, Andrea got...
Your Story is Your Power: Buchi Nduka and The Amazing Woman
When you listen to Buchi Nduka talk about her business, her story, and her community, you can’t help but be energized. You can tell that the moment she gets up in front of a crowd all eyes are on her – she speaks confidently, full of energy, empathy, and knowledge...
She Hacks Africa: fighting the challenges that prevent girls from enrolling in STEM
Yunus&Youth Fellow Tolulope Owajoba Adeyemo is a social entrepreneur from Nigeria with experience in international development. She holds a degree in Microbiology from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, did a social entrepreneurship program at INSEAD, and is...
Mentoring Young Future Problem Solvers: Yunus & Youth Mentoring Experience
Working with Yunus & Youth provides our mentors with a unique experience to interact with young social entrepreneurs. This is the case for former Yunus&Youth mentor, Jerome Tong. Jerome currently lives in Singapore, working with cash solutions as a Vice...
Alex’s Adventure: how our choices impact our lives
Nicole Ryan transformed the sad story about her brother’s death into information to help others. Her connection with the issue gave her the strength to go out and educate young students about drugs to reduce the harms associated with drugs in her community. After...
Blooming Bs: providing children with healthy, nutritious, and delicious meals
Rihab Hasanain, 35 years old and mother of 2, is an amazing woman. Not just she was an assistant professor in the largest female university in the world, Princess Noura University, and passed her knowledge to empower female students and create future leaders, but she...
Conociendo a las empresas sociales: la experiencia de la mentora Rita Katarya
In 2018, Ritu Katarya mentored Yunus & Youth Fellow, Abhishek Banerjee, and helped build his social venture, Qube. Ritu is a Vice President of Global Consumer Technology at Citi and was excited to take on the opportunity to mentor a social entrepreneur. “I didn’t...
Y&Y at the COVID-19 Collective Action Summit
At the time I am writing this post, 2,800,000+ people have been affected by the current pandemic worldwide. It has already reached all regions and killed 190,000+ people. Before such an unexpected and rapidly scaling situation, people and organizations all over the...
Announcing our newly selected cohort of 2020 Y&Y Fellows!
Since 2014, Yunus & Youth has trained more than 4,500 people from over 65 countries, building a mission-driven community with amplified resources that drive social change. Yunus & Youth believes in combining the next generation’s passion to change the world...
