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Odile is a refugee. Leslie is an entrepreneur. These two women from extremely different backgrounds now work together. They up-cycle T-shirts headed to the landfill into trendy skirts and scarves.
South Africa's minister of finance delivered heartfelt remarks, reminding us that there are a billion lives that need to benefit from Africa's transformation. Little did I realize how swiftly and significantly Minister Gordhan's words would touch me.
While today's crisis may revolve around financial markets, tomorrow's will stem from the aftershock: hundreds of millions of young adults never incorporated in the job market. The repercussions of this lost generation will be devastating.
The thinking here is simple: Engage students and their profs in the important, if difficult, work of social change. We can't do it alone.
Forty years ago next month, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi presciently told those gathered in Stockholm for the United Nations' first major conference on the environment that "poverty is the worst form of pollution."
In desperate hopes to appease those who feel that people like me should simply, "get a job," I have a few equally simple tips for employers, peers, and fellow unemployed.
Tyler Gage is the 26-year-old founder and CEO of Runa, a sustainable, fair-trade Amazonian tea company. It's a cool story. He's a cool dude.
By linking the ether to the earth, high tech with low tech, the cool with the clunky, we can close the gap between the have-nots and the have-a-lots and achieve the equitable distribution of wealth and opportunity that Africa needs.
Five social entrepreneurs were presented the award of Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 for Africa by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship yesterday in Addis Ababa at the World Economic Forum on Africa.
In Africa, unmitigated loss of nature, accelerated by population growth, will lead to ecosystem change at a scale and breadth too costly to reverse, and particularly when one adds climate change predictions into this boiling pot.
The physical movement of people and services to connect the 70% of people who live in rural Africa with health care is one of the most vital yet neglected aspects of health care on that continent.
A decade ago I couldn't buy a local sim card and had to use my South African GSM cellphone to make a call. Today, instead of paying roaming charges, I bought a sim card from MTN Ethiopia.
Making a difference matters. If development, poverty and inequality are going to be solved, then entrepreneurial characteristics need to be developed.
Inclusivity is one way to shape Africa's transformation. Let's go, Africa. On your marks, get set, go.
We all dream of reaching our potential. Social entrepreneurs, who often see the mission of their organization as the embodiment of their own personal mission, perhaps know this better than most of us.
For those unacquainted with the term, "social entrepreneurship" is the hottest thing currently going in the world of philanthropy. Think of it as charity's business-savvy offspring.
