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Partner BOLIVIA |
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 Isabel
Viscarra, Ashoka Representative Bolivia,
Ashoka, La Paz, Bolivia
"Aymara people value generosity, reciprocity,
loyalty, sharing and openness very high. These are
values that I share and that are missing in today's
society." – how a new president brings
hope and energy to indigenous people and what an
international network of social entrepreneurs can
contribute.
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 Brigitte
Brodmann, Prison Psychologist, La Paz, Bolivia
"I have always believed in solidarity in the
world. And if you have ideals, you have to be consequent
and work on their realization.” – why
dreams in life most often have nothing to do with
earning lots of money.
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Partner PERU |
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 Sara
Diestro, Founder & CEO, Escuela Deporte
y Vida, Lima, Peru
“I hope the efforts to support education and
build the self esteem of young people will have
a ripple effect that helps Peru. This country is
for everybody.” – how sport can help
to teach for life and offer new chances for everybody.
Interview to
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 Albina
Ruiz Rios, Founder & CEO, Ciudad Saludable,
Lima, Peru
“I've
always lived in poor areas. And in poor ideas
it's dirty. So, I started optimizing and restructuring
the garbage collection.” - why a girl from
the jungle just cannot live with urban waste and
how good ideas come at night.
Interview to
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 Hernando
de Soto, Founder, President and CEO, Institute
for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), Lima, Peru
“I strongly believe that you will not have
anything sustainable if you don't get the legal
frameworks right first.” – what impact
property rights have on poverty and exclusion, and
what it has to do with trust.
Interview to
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 Baltazar
Caravedo Molinari, Representa-tive
of Peru, Avina, Lima, Peru
“Promoting people, bringing them together
– what I do at Avina is in a way the materialization
of a family fantasy.” - how a writer wanders
between emotions and rational action and appreciates
human interaction within a network.
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Partner COLOMBIA |
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 Vicky
Colbert de Arboleda, Founder & CEO, Escuela
Nueva Back to the People Foundation, Bogotá,
Colombia
“Very early I was aware that without good
basic education very little can be achieved.”
– how to motivate kids to learn and why research
matters in social entrepreneurship.
Interview to
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 Dr.
Enrique Peñalosa, Founder & Presi-dent,
Foundation Por el Pais que Queremos, Bogotá,
Columbia
“Cities are a means to our way of life.”
– how cities can be designed for people and
not for cars and why democracy is not about voting.
Interview to
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 Catalina
Cock Duque, Founder & General Coordinator,
Green Gold, Medellin, Colombia
“People we work with in Chocó are literarily
sitting on a gold mine and dying of hunger.”
– how to mine without destroying forests and
lives, and why this makes a young woman happy.
Interview to
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 Bruce
Mac Master, Partner Inverlink, Chairman of
the Board Compartamos con Colombia, Bogotá,
Colombia
“As donors of professional support for NGOs
we found out that we are a lot more effective if
we work in teams.” – how an investment
banker convinced other businesses to join efforts
and share with Columbia.
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 Alejandro
Martínez, Founder & CEO, Fundation
Little Worker, Bogotá, Colombia
“There is a big difference between child abuse
and child work.” – why children should
have the right to work and how to get 5 or 6 houses
to live in.
Interview to
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 Angélica
Castro Rodríguez, General Director,
Transmilenio S.A., Bogotá, Colombia
"My
vision is to arrange the whole city. Not only
the public transport but mobility services and
infrastructure in general.” – how
Angélica helps to bring Bogotá to
the leading edge of public transport and tries
to set an example for many developed cities.
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 Dr.
Roberto Gutiérrez Poveda, Assistant
Profesor & Director of the Social Entre-preneurs
Initiative, Universidad de los Andes Facultad de
Administracion, Bogotá, Colombia
“You have to aim high and then manage your
expectations and work on the detail.” –
how a professor can make young people think and
why it is difficult to work in a network.
Interview to
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Partner ECUADOR |
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 Adriana
Milanesi-Agnoli, Director CCQ Foundation
& Ashoka Representative Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
“I'm a good salesman and I used to make a
lot of money; but work in the social sector makes
me a better and a fuller person.” –
how raising children is possible with limited money
and why they may care as well.
Interview to
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 Patricio
Donoso, Consultant, Quito, Ecuador
"I believe that participation is a very important
way to build social capital. When you partici-pate
you start thinking about the future." –
how difficult it can be to find the right way to
serve its country. Interview
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 José
Carvajal, Agricultor, Chakra Ashoka, Quito,
Ecuador
“Only when you have life experience can you
share it." – why agriculture is about
culture and how Jose wants to give back to the land
what he received.
Interview to
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 Maria
Elena Ordoñez, Founder & CEO,
Arcandina, Quito, Ecuador
"My dream is to see Arcandina sailing around
the world with thousands of children playing, laughing
and singing on board. These children are the voices
of our new found awareness to love nature and take
care of life." – how fantasy can inspire
children to become aware of environmental problems
and solutions.
Interview to
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 Maria
del Carmen Tene, Responsible
for Indigenous People, World Bank, Quito, Ecuador
“Everybody has the right to develop and grew
– I want to support especially indigenous
women like me.” – who consults the World-bank
and why self esteem and leadership matter so much.
Interview to
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 Dr.
Mariana Galarza, General Director, Association
Vivir, Quito, Ecuador
“I want to give people the ability
to take care of their own health.” –
how a doctor tries to make herself unnecessary and
why nutrition matters so much.
Interview to
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 Yolanda
Kakabadse, Executive President,
Futuro Latinoamericano, Quito, Ecuador
"Environment is a passion; once it
gets into your blood it does not go away."
- how to draw a line between an organisation and
a personality and why setting priorities can be
hard.
Interview to
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 Sonia
Andrade Tafur, Founder, Conamo-Sotee-Corporación
de Organizaciones Sociales de Atenci, Quito, Ecuador
“Human rights are for everybody, also for
older people.” – how the care for elderly
starts with youth education and why the way of heart
matters.
Interview to
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 Carlos
Zapata, President, Fundar Galapagos, Puerto
Ayora, Ecuador
„If you cannot change Galapagos you cannot
change the world.“ – what environmental
conservation means to local people and how to deal
with conflict through bottom-up debate.
Interview to
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Partner CHILE |
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 Maria
Emilia Correa, Vice-President Social and
Environmental Responsibility, Grupo Nueva, Santiago,
Chile
“Every business decision has a social and
environmental consequence; business is not working
in a void.” – how business has a huge
responsibility for our environment and society and
why Grupo Nueva has a role-model function.
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 Dr.
Marcela Zubieta Acuña, Executive Vice-President,
Foundation our Children (Fundacion nuestros hijos),
Santiago, Chile
“My main goal was and still is to alleviate
pain and suffering for children with cancer.”
– how a brain tumour completely changed the
life of Marcela Zubieta and her family and why opportunities
for amazingly good things can lie in the worst of
all situations. Interview
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Partner BRAZIL |
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 Dr.
Amalia Fischer, Executive Director, Foundation
Angela Borba, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
"I love to see women in grass-roots organisa-tions
blossom and change their lives." - why a feminist
got involved in social investing and how easy it
is to loose rights.
Interview to
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 André
Porto, PR and Human Resource Director VIVA
RIO, Latin American Coordinator "United Religious
Initiative", MIR Founder, Rio de Janeiro, RJ,
Brazil
“My passion is building bridges between civic
and spiritual movements.” – what role
church can play when it comes to weapons and how
meditation can lie in activity.
Interview to
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 André
Villas Bôas, Coordinator Xingu Program,
Instituto Socioambiental, Sao Pãulo, Brazil
“One of the first issues I was involved in
was the work on land rights for indigenous people.”
– how government work is sometimes the only
option and why building an airplane is not so easy
in the bush.
Interview to
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 Theresa
Urban, Independent consultant and writer,
Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Interview to
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 Juara
de Almeida Ferreira, Diretor of Ensino CBR
& Diretor of the Opet School, Opet school, Curitiba,
Paraná, Brazil
Interview
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 Jaime
Lerner, Founder & Presiden, Institute
Jaime Lerner, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Interview to
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 Sílvia
R. Ziller, Founder and Executive Director,
Hórus Institute & Director The Nature
Conservancy, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Interview to
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 Pedro
Tarak, Representative & Inter-regional
Bridges Lead, Avina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“I love connecting people, especially building
bridges between regions that can learn from each
other.” – how Avina is showing new ways
of exchanging knowledge globally.
Interview to
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 Angelique
Xanthopoulos, Founder and Director, InsightArgentina,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
“When you are passionate about something you
are just much more effective and do your best professional
work.” – what is cool about volunteering
and the long way from Arizona to Cuzco and Buenos
Aires.
Interview to
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 Daniel
Dickens, Coordinator of Community Mobilization,
HelpArgentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“I guess as most of us, I just respond to
the people around me” – how Argentineans
abroad care about Argentina and about the mission
of redefining.
Interview to
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 Rosalia
Gutierrez, Founder & Director, CEPLA,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
“I want to bring traditional values in balance
with the importance of education.” - how to
connect with the earth in a city and why indigenous
people suffer anyway.
Interview to
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 Ricardo
E. Bertolino, Founder, Coordinator &
Adviser, ecoclubes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Everybody who works here feels important
and a significant part of something.” –
how waste expands and politics is an even bigger
mess.
Interview to
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 Moira
Rubio Brennan, Director, Foundation ph15,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
“I teach children in the slums photography
and they teach me about life.” – how
to involve your whole family and why intellec-tualising
too much is a burden.
Interview to
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 Inés
Sanguinetti, Co-Founder & President,
Crear Vale la Pena, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“No revolution without joy and no joy without
revolution” – how to dance your way
out of poverty and why beauty matters so much.
Interview to
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 Matias
Laurenz, Co-Director Idealistas.org Argentina,
Action without Borders/ Idealist.org, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
“I am not Gandhi, I just want to use all my
skills in a way that makes sense and feels good.”
– how to make helping and giving easier and
why web technology helps a lot.
Interview to
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 Ami
Dar, Founder, Action without Borders / Idealist.Org,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
“When I first saw internet it felt like someone
had invented it just for me and my dream.”
– why sometimes what you do does not seem
like a choice and why borders in this world run
in wrong directions.
Interview to
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 Martín
Churba, Designer & Founder, Tramando,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
“I like real design, made for real people.
And I want to use my talent for more than just myself.”
– why a fashion designer got challenged by
a group of unemployed and how it is not about charity.
Interview to
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 Toty
Flores, Founder, Co-operativ, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
“It is good that society starts to appreciate
how important and powerful work is.” –
how to overcome hunger by choosing dignity and why
some cooperations are not as crazy as they seem.
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