Entrepreneurial activities cut across all facets of life as opposed to the belief that it revolves around handcrafts and other skilled labour. One of the qualities of an entrepreneur is the ability to innovate new ideas while bearing all risks and reward of such a project. Rajan Kaur Saini falls into this category has seen some of the shortfalls of her immediate environment and deciding against all odds to make an impact. Here is her story:
Zaina Erhaim is a Syrian journalist and the 2015 winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism.
Holiday seasons are usually fun times for kids across continents, it’s the time to kick back, relax, avoid siesta routines, and play all day; or Not!
Shannon May is an anthropologist, she Co-Founded Bridge International Academies, an innovative company launching a franchise of low-cost schools to serve impoverished families and informal settlements, across developing nations. While conducting research in rural China, Shannon saw close-up how primary education was failing already impoverished families. The experience prompted her to research how children could be taught the skills they need to thrive, harnessing data and technology to make a replicable and affordable model of education. The result was Bridge International Academies, the world’s largest private provider of nursery and primary education for families living on $2 a day or less. Bridge International, which charges $6 a month on average, launched its first school in Nairobi in 2009. It has now expanded across Africa, educating over 100,000 pupils, and plans to reach 10 million children across a dozen countries by 2025. If the status quo in education is kept, 2070…
Jessica O. Mathews is the Founder and CEO of Uncharted Play, founded in May of 2011 as a new kind of social enterprise grounded in play and the happiness of life that would show the world how play could be a tangible tool for inspiring social invention. Mathews invented the SOCCKET, a soccer ball that harnesses and stores UP energy from play for later use as portable power source in resource-poor areas. It is the flagship product of Uncharted Play, Incorporated. Matthews, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States, conceived the Idea of the SOCCKET for first came to when visiting Nigeria for a family wedding; the power went out during the party, her relatives switched on the noisy, noxious diesel generators that have become a way of life for nearly 60 million Nigerians. Recall that according statistics in 2015, only about 25 percent of Nigerians have access…
Shantabai is a traditional woman who knew little or nothing about gender stereotype. But she defied the assumption about that fact when she was faced with the problem of a hunger and starvation. Shantanbai Shrapati Yadav is the first female barber in India, her late father was a barber and so was her late husband. She got married at the age of 12 to late Mr. Shripati Yadav. Barbing was a part time job for Mr. Shripati who was a farmer. He worked as a barber to add to his income but when there was a rift between him and his brothers, they split the farm land between themselves and Shripati had less than an acre of land to farm on. He decided to concentrate on his barbing business in order to feed is family. Mr. Shripati and his family moved to Hasursasgiri village to start a new life. Fortunately,…
