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From Cambodia, special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on one group, Friends International, and its efforts to help homeless children and ...

Christian Hiss wants to save farms facing bankruptcy in Germany and create sustainable farming that is also economically viable. He founded a compa...

Zoran Puljic has invested 2.5 million Euros in the creation of new jobs in the economically depressed city of Sekovici in the Serb part of Bosnia-H...

http://www.weforum.org 19.12.2011

This year's winners of the award "Swiss Social Entrepreneur of the Year" are Christoph Sutter and Renat Heuberger...

http://www.weforum.org 19.12.2011

POINZZ rewards young people when they consume little or no alcohol. It gives young people the opportunity to do a...

http://www.weforum.org 19.12.2011

Codecheck is an online guide that helps consumers with their purchasing decisions. It provides them with a websit...

Albina Ruiz, Ciudad Saludable, Social Entrepreneur of Latin America. World Economic Forum

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Victor Suarez, Anec, Social Entrepreneur of Latin America.

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Ariel Zylbersztejn Social Entrepreneur of Latin America. World Economic Forum

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Jose Ignacio Avalos, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Un Kilo de Ayuda, Mexico - longer Ver...

Patricia Ruiz, sierra Gorda, Social Entrepreneur of Latin America. World Economic Forum

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http://www.weforum.org 07.04.2010

How can Latin America become a more prosperous, democratic, integrated and globally relevant region over the next...

Tuesday September 14

Rethinking the Corporation in the 21st Century

* Cynthia Carroll, Chief Executive, Anglo American, United Kingdom; Mentor of ...

IdeasLab with Social Entrepreneurs

Join Social Entrepreneurs in the IdeasLab to discover creative solutions designed to address society's most pres...

The initiative "Echale a tu casa" (Build Your House) has already built more than 26,000 homes in Mexico. The homes are for the poorest of poor. Fra...

Ten years ago the Ottawa Treaty on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines came into force. Although it has since been signed and ratified by most ...

They identify their bus by the color of the outside or the face of the driver because they can make nothing of the letters on the destination sign....

Yedid means friend in Hebrew. It's also the name of the largest Israeli organization dedicated to helping the country's poor and underprivileged. I...

IdeasLab with Social Entrepreneurs

Join Social Entrepreneurs in the IdeasLab to discover creative solutions designed to address society's most pres...

A portrait of social entrepreneur Ismael Ferreira from Bahia,Brazil:The Sertao in the Brazilian state of Bahia is a barren,semi-arid region. In Bah...

Malnutrition continues to be a major problem in Mexico,where over a million children are affected. Businessman José Ignacio Ávalos Hernández set up...

He could have been a chief surgeon in a big Sao Paulo hospital like his father, and rake in the cash. Eugenio Scannavino Neto did become a doctor ....

In Tansania leben 33 Prozent der Menschen unterhalb der Armutsgrenze. Vor allem für Frauen ist es schwierig, sich daraus zu befreien. Denn wie soll...

Climate protection in miniature is the description of what Sherif el Ghamrawi is doing on the Sinai peninsula. His idea was to build a vacation cam...

85-year-old businessman Nihat Gökyigit has taken up the conservationist cause in his native Turkey. His environmental protection organization TEMA ...

Aynur Bektas's factory shows there is another way for Turkey's textiles industry. For this social entrepreneur,humane working conditions come first...

As a social entrepreneur, Norbert Kunz has a diverse clientele: from a welfare recipient who wants to start his own business to a group of young pe...

Taffy Adler wants to make the Johannesburg inner city livable again. He is head of an unusual housing association that provides affordable safe hou...

Vor zehn Jahren trat die Ottawa-Konvention zur Ächtung von Antipersonenminen in Kraft. Obwohl sie inzwischen von den meisten der UN-Mitgliedstaaten...

A library in a super market and mobile libraries for children living in the rural areas -- these are the two initiatives started by the La Fuente f...

Thirty years ago, social entrepreneur Joe Madiath founded the organisation Gram Vikas in Orissa, one of the poorest states in India, to help the in...

More than 90 percent of Argentinians live in the cities. The non-governmental organization "Responde" is trying to halt the flight from the country...

Innovative, fair - and ideally, profitable: that's the sort of business that our 'Social Entrepreneurs' are interested in. They're creative and the...

Every kid today is familiar with internet terms like chatting, surfing and blogs. Really every child? 79 percent of the people on the world are cut...

Germany is home to about 15 million people with an immigrant background. Especially the old people find it hard to cope in Germany. Language proble...

NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship 2007-2008 Speaker Series

Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder & Chairman, BRAC was educated in Dhaka and Glas...

Jack Sim founded the World Toilet Organization ("the other WTO!") in 2001 when he realized that 40% of the world population had no toilets: "Someti...

Gated communities are popular in Brazil,as well. Brazilians who can afford it fence themselves off. Housing for the poor is in short supply. Public...

The work of Peruvian Albina Ruiz shows just what personal committment can achieve. She is in charge of the environmental organisation "Ciudad Salud...

http://www.weforum.org/india 27.11.2006

Meeting India's New Expectations

India's overarching vision is that of an "inclusive, prosperous, democrati...

Each year, the Schwab Foundation honors social entrepreneurs around the world - businessmen and women who support social causes. Kenny Low was name...

Hardworking Waste Workers -- A Peruvian Woman Turns Workers Into Small-Scale Entrepreneurs

Pucallpa is a fast-growing city in the Amazon region of...

Dr. Hale is founder and CEO of Medicines360, a sustainable nonprofit pharmaceutical company dedicated to inequities in womens health and childrens ...