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School in Bolivia Cleans Up Using Pedal-Powered Soap
Freddy Candia Aguilar, affectionately known as “MacGyver” for his uncanny ability to make something out of nothing, proudly held a banner with the words “Cochabamba Pedal Project” emblazoned on it. He had been providing free bike tune-ups all day to participants in Cochabamba, Bolivia’s first Bike and Pedestrian Day, while promoting his new social enterprise.
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- Latin America
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Social Enterprise Leader Wants to Map Africa’s Future
Entrepreneur Vimbiso Mashumba says she feels privileged to be part of the 30 young people to represent Zimbabwe at the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.
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Twitter Top 10: 6-7-2015
Have you read "the biggest story in the history of capitalism"? Do you have any ideas about how to change corporate behavior forever? Can you name "the new venture capital"? We ?have to admit, we had to answer "no" to all these questions. That is, until we visited the Twittersphere this week in search of our Top 10 list.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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3D eye tech social enterprise giving gift of sight
Dr. Hong Sheng Chiong's talk at TEDxAuckland last month was met with a standing ovation. Yet what he had to say is really just the beginning of an open-source journey to end preventable blindness globally; and it begins with a life-changing invention designed especially for those living in poverty.
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- Education, Health Care
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How A Drunken Chipmunk Voice Helps Send A Public Service Message
A new game called Polly, designed by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, helps get useful information to people with little or no reading skills.
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- Education, Health Care
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Motsepe, Schwab Sign 3-year, $1.07 Million Social Entrepreneurship Deal
Hilde Schwab, Co-Founder and Chairperson of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and Precious Moloi-Motsepe, Co-Founder and Deputy Chairman of the Motsepe Foundation, announced a three-year, 1 million Swiss franc partnership on the opening day of the World Economic Forum on Africa. The objectives of the partnership are to advance the social entrepreneurship agenda in Africa by raising awareness, engaging the media and celebrating proven social innovators; contribute to research initiatives on best practices and scaling strategies; and build the capacity of African social enterprises through peer-to-peer exchanges.
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Foundation Searches for Young Social Entrepreneurs
There are many success stories of social enterprises taking off, but most of these are in Manila. Proponents of a contest seeking to award social entrepreneurs hope to find the next success story in the provinces.
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Twitter Top Ten
Unlike in the world of global soccer, this week in global development was marked by a fair amount of positive news. We captured some of it in this week’s Top Ten list, which features everything from mobile money momentum and impact investing resources, to promising health care innovations - along with a couple of cool videos.
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- Agriculture, Health Care, Technology