Shauneen Lambe Shortlisted for Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards

Submitted by Margherita Philipp on Thu, May 23, 2013

Ashoka UK Fellow Shauneen Lambe recently celebrated her great success in ensuring that 17-year-olds are no longer treated as adults when taken into custody. Now she has now been shortlisted for the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards in the Criminal Defense category. We are...

Submitted by Margherita Philipp on Wed, May 22, 2013

There was a splash of excitement last Wednesday as our friends at Unltd revealed their 2013 Big Venture Challenge Winners. The second edition of the competition received 140 applications to elect 30 Winners who will focus on building their organisations and attracting...

Submitted by Felicity Mclean on Thu, May 16, 2013

Launching the all-new Ashoka Associate Programme Do you have a passion to change the world through powerful storytelling? Want to be immersed in the UK's leading network for social innovation? Do you believe in the power of businesses for social good? Do you want to “Be...

Submitted by Margherita Philipp on Tue, May 7, 2013

We are very proud to announce Nick Sireau as our Fellow of the Month for May. Nick is a serial Social Entrepreneur, elected to the Ashoka Fellowship in 2010 for founding SolarAid and lighting up African homes. Today he is focusing full-time on AKU Society and Findacure,...

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Co-Creating Our Future, One Big Idea At A Time

Submitted on Tue, May 21, 2013

Submitted by: Tsega Belachew on 05/21/13 Editor's Note: This article was written by Karabi Acharya with the AshokaUS team and first appeared on Forbes. It used to be that if you went to school and studied hard, you would get a job, buy a house and be a generally...

Submitted on Fri, May 17, 2013

Submitted by: Tsega Belachew on 05/17/13 Ashoka is honored to celebrate the life of Ashoka Fellow Abdul Waheed Khan. Abdul was brutally murdered at the age of 36 in front of his co-educational school in Qasba Colony, Karachi. Abdul was elected as an Ashoka Fellow...

Submitted on Thu, May 16, 2013

Submitted by: Tsega Belachew on 05/16/13 Ashoka is saddened to report that Fellow Abdul Waheed was killed on May 13, 2013. Abdul was creating opportunities for a modern education in the poor, urban localities in Pakistan, particularly by working with children studying...