Ashoka’s Youth Venture program works with people between the ages of twelve and twenty. These young people identify problems in their community and find ways to solve them.
TYLER SPALDING: “Ashoka then provides those teams of young people with advisors, monetary seed funding, as well as non-monetary support to transform their idea into action.”
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FAITH LAPIDUS: Ashoka does not announce its fellows at one time every year. They are announced throughout the year, as they are chosen.
Kara Andrade is a two thousand ten fellow. She was born in Guatemala. She later moved to the United States with her family to escape civil war in her native country. As a reporter, she became interested in how people in Guatemala were expressing themselves and communicating with each other.
She started an organization called Habla Guate. Its aim is to develop a citizen-based information sharing system that can provide timely and necessary news to people in Guatemala and other parts of Central America. She developed a mobile phone-based system that permits people to share important information throughout the Habla network.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Biplab Paul is another two thousand ten Ashoka fellow. His organization in India helps provide a low-cost method of collecting water for farming in the Gujarat area. It also helps empower local women. His efforts involve organizing women and their communities to harvest rainwater.
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