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  • Ser líder para el cambio

    Created: 04/28/11 by Patricia Breuer Moreno

    Promover el liderazgo de la mujer. Que su opinión esté presente en la toma de decisiones. Establecer políticas laborales que contemplen sus necesidades. Lograr conciencia de género. De ésto –y más– se ocupa Voces Vitales de Argentina.

  • Gloria D'Souza: Como convertirse en un "fructífero" empresario

    Created: 04/27/11 by Anonymous

    Uno de los primeros Emprendedores Sociales de Ashoka, Gloria de Souza rechazó lucrativas oportunidades de carrera profesional para enseñar. Ella encontró un sistema educativo que amortiguaba la creatividad del alumno, la motivación para aprender, la capacidad de resolución de problemas, y la fe en la India. Gloria creó e introdujo la educación moderna de la experiencia que desafió a los estudiantes a pensar y resolver problemas en conjunto en lugar de cantar los hechos. Su contribución básica no se ha de inventar la educación moderna que adaptarse para que sea atractivo para todos en entornos no-occidental. Su trabajo paciente de la adopción, la persuasión, la capacitación y la organización de difundir ampliamente su impacto. Finalmente, el gobierno de la India presentó su trabajo en otros distritos, y el UNICEF le pidió ayuda por primera vez en Sikkim y luego más allá. Otras áreas de la India, en Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, y el Oriente Medio Gloria quiere ampliar su programa a sus áreas. 

    ¿Quiénes son sus favoritos de Changemakers de la historia? 

    Tarabai Moda es una de mis favoritas. Ella me dio mis mejores lecciones de un enfoque ambiental que hace que la conciencia sensorial la clave para el aprendizaje mediante la observación, la investigación y el descubrimiento-en realidad, el aprendizaje que dura. 

    Tarabai Modak, quien vivió desde 1892 hasta 1973, es otra. Ella ganó el premio Padmabhushan en 1962 por su contribución original al campo de la educación. Ella fue pionera de un enfoque que permitió a los niños pobres rurales, y sus padres también, para aprender de sus experiencias cotidianas en su entorno. Ella tenía 65 años de edad, cuando se puso en marcha su proyecto para educar a los adivasis (pueblos indígenas en la India) a través de anganwadis (un gobierno niño apadrinado el cuidado y el centro de la madre de cuidado personal), creyendo que si los niños no pueden llegar a la escuela, la escuela debe llegar a ellos. 

    Mi exposición a las formas ingeniosamente simple y barato Tarabai Modak de utilizar el medio ambiente a disposición del alumno-para permitir el crecimiento en el aprendizaje de habilidades y en la internalización de los conceptos relacionados con las matemáticas, la ciencia y la geografía-fue mi primera experiencia de un enfoque del medio ambiente auténtico de aprendizaje. 

  • Las madres jóvenes en situación de riesgo pueden ser ciudadanos de gran alcance

    Created: 04/27/11 by Anonymous

    Raquel Barros está transformando las vidas de las madres jóvenes, en situación de riesgo de forma global.

    Fundó Lua Nova para centrarse en el rescate y la rehabilitación de las madres adolescentes y jóvenes en situación de riesgo, al tiempo que subraya el derecho a la maternidad. Su organización permite a las madres jóvenes y sus hijos a descubrir la ciudadanía y la autoestima de modo que ya no están excluidos de la sociedad, a través de carreras profesionales y la formación de la construcción, talleres de generación de ingresos, atención de la salud, la psicoterapia, y clases de recuperación. 

  • Fútbol Gonzo! Un vehículo para el cambio social

    Created: 04/27/11 by Anonymous

    Mónica González Mónica González fue nombrada una ChangemakeHER Ashoka Changemakers, una de las mujeres más influentes e inspiradoras del mundo.

  • Emily May, Co-founder of Hollaback: "Followers are the New Leaders"

    Created: 04/25/11 by Anonymous

    Emily May was honored as a ChangemakeHER for her work to shape global social change. View the other voices of ChangemakeHERS.

    by Emily May, co-founder and executive director, Hollaback

    Turning your idea into reality requires guts: you have to be ready to face down some pretty big obstacles. But, if you’re ready – and I mean really ready – those obstacles look like nothing compared to the feeling that, if you don’t act, you’ll be standing in the way of progress.

  • The Woman Of The Future

    Created: 04/20/11 by Anonymous

    Astrid Aafjes was honored as an Ashoka ChangemakeHER, Changemakers's inaugural celebration of the world's most influentual and inspiring women. Find her fellow honorees' voices here.

    by Astrid Aafjes, Founder and Executive Director, Women Win

    What does the woman of the future look like?
    A woman of the future has the full ability to exercise her rights. She is heard when she speaks. She is a leader and a valued member of her community. A woman of the future has economic independence and autonomy.

  • Difference Makes us Attractive

    Created: 04/19/11 by Anonymous

    Bea Pellizzari was honored as an Ashoka ChangemakeHER, Changemakers's inaugural celebration of the world's most influentual and inspiring women. Find her fellow honorees' voices here.

    Bea Pellizzari     has dedicated 18 years of her life to transforming the public image of people with disabilities. She founded La Usina in 2002 on the principle that diversity yields collective enrichment.

    La Usina integrates people who have physical and mental disabilities into the labor force by using a model based on market principles and professional standards, without resorting to quotas or preferential treatment. Pellizzari recognizes that finding a job is not simply a matter of charity, but is the result of making a strong match between workers’ skills and employers’ needs.

    Four years ago, she created a very successful social business called redACTIVOS that promotes and distributes several products and services created by people with disabilities. In addition to generating income for La Usina, this social business has been able to connect a network of very important Argentinean and international companies that buy the products and services made by a network of people with disabilities.

    In this short video, Pellizzari briefly describes her journey along the path of social entrepreneurship, and how entrepreneurial activities, joy, and happiness go hand-in-hand.

  • Making Every Business an “Ability” Company

    Created: 04/18/11 by Anonymous

    Caroline Casey was honored as an Ashoka ChangemakeHER, Changemakers's inaugural celebration of the world's most influentual and inspiring women. Find her fellow honorees' voices here.

    Sushmita Ghosh, member of Ashoka's Leadership Team and founder of Changemakers, sat down with Caroline Casey (pictured above), Ashoka Globalizer Fellow and founding CEO of Kanchi and the O2 Ability Awards.

    Kanchi is a not-for-profit organization that works to change thinking about disability. Kanchi promotes the ability and value of every person with a disability and challenges traditional stereotypes through innovative initiatives aimed at a wide range of stakeholders. Kanchi works with leaders in business, government, and the media to accelerate change.

    ★★★

    Ghosh: When was your "ah-ha" moment when you realized that your idea could be realized on a larger scale?

    Casey: I actually had a few “ah-ha” moments throughout the history of Kanchi. The first time was in 2004 while creating the first Irish Ability Awards—I knew instinctually that this idea could be replicated in any country if we got the model right, like the ISO model.

    The second was in 2007, when Telefónica came to Ireland to see the 02 Ability Awards. After hearing about our activities, they had sent very high-level people to witness the final stage of the Ability Awards Program - the gala ceremony. Within minutes of the ceremony ending, they asked me whether they could take the Ability Awards to Spain.

    The third moment was January 17, during the first complete cycle of those Ability Awards in Spain, when the president of Telefónica announced his plan to take the Ability Awards to five countries in five years in front of an extremely influential audience, including the Queen of Spain.  It was at that moment that the dream I had back in 2004 began to become a reality.

  • Woman Runner = Social Transformation

    Created: 04/08/11 by Anonymous

    Kathrine Switzer was honored as an Ashoka ChangemakeHER, Changemakers's inaugural celebration of the world's most influentual and inspiring women. Find her fellow honorees' voices here.

    Kathrine Switzer at the Boston Marathon / Photo Credit - AP Images

    Pictured above: Kathrine Switzer is accosted by a judge who tried to eject her from the normally all-male Boston Marathon in 1967, when male teammates bounced the official out of the race instead and she went on to finish.  April 19, 1967 in Hopkinton, Mass. (AP PHOTO)

    ★★★

    Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon and to win the New York City Marathon. She led the drive to get the women’s marathon into the Olympics, and is a TV commentator and author of Marathon Woman. She will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame on Oct.1, 2011.

    ★★★

    It is an interesting fact that you cannot pursue a physical activity for a long time and stay angry. When the adrenaline and aggression burn themselves off, the endorphins and reasonable-- even creative—thoughts take over.

    So it was with me 44 years ago, this April 18, when I was attacked in the Boston Marathon by a race official who was so angry that I was a female in his male-only race that he tried physically to eject me. I was rescued by my male teammates who bounced the official out of the race instead, and I went on to finish.

    I said that I would finish the race on my hands and knees if I had to, to prove to this official and the world that women were physically capable of running the marathon distance, and I deserved a place in this race. I was angry with the official for 20 miles of hard running, and then a light went on.

  • Unexpected Success for the RandomKid: Solving Real World Problems

    Created: 04/08/11 by Anonymous

    Talia Leman was honored as an Ashoka ChangemakeHER, Changemakers's inaugural celebration of the world's most influentual and inspiring women. Find her fellow honorees' voices here.

     

    by Talia Leman, youth entrepreneur and founder of RandomKid

    My grandparents are convinced that I have been an entrepreneur since I was four years old. That’s when I opened a shoe store in their home. I took all 37 pairs of my grandmother’s shoes, placed one of each pair on the coffee table, and hid the other shoe where no one could find it. If my grandmother wanted to leave the house for any reason, a sale was imminent.

    It wasn’t long before I had ideas about how to expand my business—that’s when I started selling my grandparents back their own groceries. Being four didn’t deem me cute enough to prevent what happened next: they shut me down—but not before I discovered my inner business child.