Tag: Social Entrepreneur5
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Company
Enova
Mexico
Enova is a social enterprise that creates opportunities and innovative educational models. Enova's mission is to bring educational technology to poor people to succeed in the knowledge society.
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Company
Kriyate
India
Kriyate a small and energetic start up enterprise based in India works relentlessly to empathize with specially abled users and to devise usable solutions to facilitate their needs and aspirations. The company has built a Braille Smartphone for the visually impaired which allows users to read mobile content using only their fingertips and has also released a gesture based accessibility app. Kriyate believes there are great opportunities for technologies to make a significant difference in quality of life for the specially abled.
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Company
Shining Hope for Communities
Kenya
Lucy Auwor lives in the Kibera slum of Nairobi Kenyathe largest in Africa. At age six Lucy was forced to exchange sex for food to survive. Lucy knew that as a poor uneducated woman her life prospects were bleak. Lucy is just one of nearly half a million young women in Kibera denied education and made to suffer daily indignities. Shining Hope for Communities has developed an innovative model to combat gender inequality. They link free schools for girls to holistic community centers that provide residents with essential services unavailable elsewhere through a community center adjacent to the school. By concretely linking essential health and economic services to a school for girls they demonstrate that benefiting women benefits the whole community cultivating a community ethos that makes women respected members of society. In their model girls schools become portals through which attitudes toward women change as community members associate needed services with an institution dedicated to girls education.
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