Ashoka Fellow Abdelfattah Abusrour: Open letter to President Obama

Dear Mr. The President of the United States of America, Mr. Barak Obama
I would like to congratulate you on this victory, a victory that is not only yours, as you have said in your speech, but a victory also for those people who believed in you, and who are full of hope in the change [...]

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إطلاق حملة ‘لا للقمامة’

أصبحت مشكلة القمامة الأن تمثل جدلا كبيرا في المجتمع المصري، حيث تتفاقم يوم بعد يوم وذلك بعد تغيير الحكومة نظام جمع القمامة. حيث كانت من قبل تجمع عن طريق الزبالين وتنقل إلي حي الزبالين بمنشية ناصر ويتم فرزها، ثم يقوم الزبالين ببيع النفايات الصلبة للتجار الصناعيين ويستخدمون النفايات العضوية علفاً للحيوانات. وكانوا ينقلونها علي عربات [...]

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Fellows Speak Out: Raghda Boutros’s New Initiative

Our Fellows represent some of the region’s most innovative social innovators – Arabs that are experts in their fields, and have committed their lives to bringing about positive social change. Our ‘ Fellows Speak Out’ series on this blog will present a platform for  these leading social entrepreneurs to share their views, to spread their [...]

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Social Entrepreneurship and Private Equity: Should it always sound like an oxymoron?

By Nayim Khemais – Ashoka Arab World ASN Member.
I joined Ashoka Arab World as a support network member in March 2009, for I was thirsty to make a difference in a region known for the daunting challenges it is facing. The private equity field – that I work in – would not obviously be the [...]

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تبرع لأشوكا الوطن العربي في شهر رمضان المعظم

إذا كنت تريد أن تحسن حياة أطفال الشوارع، ذوي الإحتياجات الخاصة والمرأة وتؤثر علي الحقوق المدنية والبيئية، التعليم، والصحة تبرع لأشوكا

إذا كنت تريد يكون تبرعك ذو فائدة كبيرة ومستمرة، تبرع لأشوكا

تضمن لك أشوكا ذلك من خلال زملاء أشوكا الوطن العربي

لأن زملاء أشوكا هم الرواد في مجال [...]

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Ashoka’s Million Dollar Challenge!

Google is one of the most innovative for-profit organizations in the world. Ashoka supports the most innovative social entrepreneurs to create social profit. Given these parallels in commitment to innovation, dramatic change and relentless inspiration, the decision of Google co-founders Anne Wojciki and Sergey Brin to invest 1,000,000 USD in Ashoka makes sense.
Only two years [...]

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Daily News Egypt publishes article on Social Entrepreneurship

” The social entrepreneurial sector holds the key to reform and sustainability long after the oil wells run dry. “
In a commentary that appeared in the Daily News Egypt yesterday, Iman Bibars, Regional Director of Ashoka Arab World and VP of Ashoka Global, argues that in times of financial hardship investing in social entrepreneurs makes [...]

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2009 Silatech Summit introduces new strategies to empower Arab youth

A 2-day summit last week in Doha brought together regional and international experts on youth policy, organizations, thought leaders, policy makers and young people to discuss how to move forward for young people in the Arab world under the current dire economic circumstances. Participants included Martthi Ahtisaari, former president of Finland and the 2008 Nobel [...]

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