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  • Demonstrating that Young Mothers at Risk can be Powerful Citizens

    Created: 04/12/11 by Anonymous

    Raquel Barros 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.

    Raquel Barros is transforming the lives of young, at-risk mothers in a holistic way. She founded Lua Nova to focus on rescuing and rehabilitating teenage mothers and at-risk youth, while emphasizing the right to motherhood. Her organization allows young mothers and their children to rediscover citizenship and self-esteem so they no longer are excluded from society, through innovative career and construction training, income generation workshops, health care, psychotherapy, and remedial classes.

  • Wynona Ward: Road Warrior for Justice

    Created: 02/28/07 by Anonymous

    Wynona Ward drives her Ford Explorer, an "office on wheels," for thousands of miles over Vermont back roads each year, to reach even the most geographically isolated families suffering from domestic abuse.

  • Kickstarting Social Change Through Football in Brazil and Argentina

    Created: 07/19/10 by John Converse Townsend

    New leaders are emerging in the soccer world of Brazil and Argentina who use football as a catalyst for social change and development. They parallel the achievements of Brazil's Seleção and La Albiceleste of Argentina—two of the most decorated teams in football history that have been represented over the years by some of the most dynamic and celebrated players ever to have worn their countries' colors.

    During the 2010 World Cup In South Africa, Brazil and Argentina hired Dunga and Diego Maradona, respectively, to manage their national teams. Despite their limited coaching experience, both managed to silence critics with successes on the pitch. Brazil entered the World Cup as the top ranked team and Argentina seemed to have found its form at just the right time.

     
    Soccer Tournament for Ending Gender Based Violence and Futbol Para Pensar are entries in Changing Lives Through Football, Changemakers and Nike's collaborative competition for using football to create social change. Finalists will be announced and voting begins on July 27, 2010. Winners are eligible to win a total of US $90,000 in prizes.

  • No Fear: Vicki Bernadet Tackles the Stigma of Child Sexual Abuse

    Created: 06/02/10 by Anonymous

    Sexual abuse scandals and lawsuits have become headline news around the world, revealing that many people find it hard to even acknowledge that child sexual abuse can happen in their own country, perhaps to someone near them. Since Vicki Bernadet started a foundation under her own name in 2006 to call attention to the issue of sexual abuse of children in Spain, the Vicki Bernadet Foundation has become the most important and recognized authority for sexual abuse counseling and training in the Cataluña region in northeast Spain.

  • Close to Home: A Community Response to Domestic Violence

    Created: 04/17/09 by Anonymous

    The kitchen table is a symbol of comfort and security -- a place for safe and honest conversation and welcome advice. It can also be a tool to help confront the most private and secret of crimes -- domestic violence.

  • Men Against Violence and Abuse: New Ideas About Men and Masculinity

    Created: 06/29/10 by Carol Erickson

    In 1991, Harish Sadani answered an Indian newspaper advertisement that read, “Wanted: Men who believe that women are not for battering.” He was one of 205 men who responded to the ad, which had been posted by a prominent Indian journalist.

    After a year of meetings with those like-minded men, Sadani decided to launch the nonprofit organization, Men Against Violence and Abuse (MAVA). It is the first men's organization in India to intervene directly against gender-based violence on women.

     
    “As a man, I always felt uncomfortable when we were tagged as the perpetrators," Sadani said. ”I felt that I could get a mechanism in place that would work closely with men, that this would help change their societal stereotypes. Men have always been viewed as the problem, but I think that it is necessary to involve them in the solution making process, too.”

  • Healing Violence through the Power of Dialogue

    Created: 04/21/09 by Anonymous

    Sushobha Barve has an uncompromising belief in the healing power of dialogue, even in the tensest places on Earth. Her polished approach to peacekeeping cleverly persuades warring factions to overcome their mistrust and begin the process of reconciliation by engaging in genuine conversation.

  • Fostering Peace, Starting with Youth

    Created: 04/17/09 by Roshan Paul

    Susheela Bhan has saved hundreds of young lives. 

    Fueled by a passion to restore humanity and faith in her war-torn homeland of Kashmir, Bhan established the Institute of Peace Research and Action (IPRA). The IPRA implements a comprehensive curriculum that inculcates democracy, secularism, social justice, and human rights into the hearts and minds of Kashmiri youth. The program is active in more than 200 schools in six districts, and has helped keep kids off the battlefield since 1999.

  • The Choice to Do Good: Responding to Mumbai's Terror Incident

    Created: 03/29/09 by Anonymous

    Following November's murderous terrorist attack on the citizens of Mumbai -- India's largest city -- social entrepreneurs are applying creative solutions to help heal the trauma and channel reactions to the crisis into building a stronger society.

  • Girls and Football South Africa: Building Self-Esteem and Empowering Young Women Through Sports

    Created: 08/12/10 by Carol Erickson

    A woman is raped every 17 seconds in South Africa, according to estimates by Interpol, the international police organization. Through her program Girls and Football South Africa (SA), Jos Dirkx believes that teaching girls to have strength over their own bodies will decrease rates of pregnancy and HIV, give them knowledge about prevention and how to get help if they need it, and help them avoid trouble plus give them confidence not to blame themselves if they do become victims of sexual assault.

    Stigma and disbelief prevent many of the victims from reporting rapes. Jos Dirkx, the founder of Girls and Football South Africa (SA), believes that South African girls will continue to be plagued by sexual assault, HIV/AIDS, and unwanted pregnancy as long as they lack support, accurate information, and confidence.