Tiger Bow
Tiger Bow is an authentic Bangladeshi bowtie, handcrafted by rural artisan women, and made with state-of-the-art ‘Katan’ fabric from Bangladesh. It aims to protect the heritage, culture, and pride of the country by providing handicraft artisans with higher incomes and new skills training. They have impacted the lives of over 30 artisans in over 12 cities paying 1,100% […]
Sally Ladsaria
Sally is a student at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), majoring in Integrative Biology Honors with a pre-med concentration. She volunteers as a CPR personnel for Illini Emergency Medical Services, and participates in Model United Nations. She is a co-founder of the Isthmus Adaptive Basketball Initiative. Isthmus Adaptive is a wheelchair basketball team […]
Derek Hoot
Derek is a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in Political Science and working towards an Arabic minor. He plays wheelchair basketball at a collegiate level and have been a right-leg amputee since he was six years old. Derek began playing wheelchair basketball in 7th grade on a Madison, Wisconsin-based team called […]
Isthmus Adaptive Wheelchair Basketball Initiative
Derek and Sally are launching a junior wheelchair basketball team and a suite of programs for the children to help with their personal and athletic development along with a support network for the families. They will also hold public demonstrations of wheelchair basketball to build awareness and promote the participants as confident and able individuals. […]
Maja Felicia Falkentoft
Maja has previously completed studies and internships in both Montréal and Dakar, and is currently finishing her BSc in Global Studies and International Development Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark. Since very young, Maja has been strongly interested in processes of global social and political change, which to several community involvements in both Denmark and […]
Johan Juul Jensen
Johan is a serial social entrepreneur. Prior to launching Play It On and becoming a Resolution Fellow, Johan founded several other domestic NGO’s. Play It On is an international NGO that works with sports for development and intercultural exchange. Under Johan’s leadership, Play It On has grown from an organization working solely between Denmark and […]
Play it On
Play It On works to improve intercultural understanding through sports. The organization believes that sports and play is the ultimate facilitator of mutual bonds between people giving them a unique opportunity to connect. In the process of creating intercultural exchanges, Play It On also improves the conditions to play for children all over the world. […]
Save The Pastoralist Initiative
Lebasha Lucia Epur, founded Save The Pastoralist Initiative to improve the nomadic Turkana community’s way of life through dry land agriculture. Save the Pastoralist will build a demonstration farm where women and children will learn and practice sustainable agricultural techniques, thereby reducing deaths due to hunger and malnutrition, reducing reliance on external food sources, and […]
Lebasha Lucia Epur
Lucia is a Kenyan Master Card Foundation Scholar and a student at EARTH University in Costa Rica, where she studies a Licenciature degree in agriculture, equivalent to a B.Sc.(Ag. ). Moved by the effects of hunger in Kenya´s northern regions she obtained a greater passion for agriculture, especially for the Arid and semi-arid lands. She […]
Komaale Initiative
Gervase founded The Komaale Initiative to provide a year-round farming opportunity for vegetable farmers along water-ways in the Wa Municipality of North West Ghana, where the crop-friendly rainy season lasts only four months. Komaale will provide subsistence vegetable farmers with streams of income throughout the year, and create employment opportunities for youth through rice farming. […]
