Young People: The New Superheroes Leading Social Innovation – SWF 2012
Speakers
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Survivor, Visayan Forum Foundation
Ailyn Capacite Bulfa was only 14 when she was trafficked. She was promised a job as a domestic worker, but ended up in a slave-like situation. She was able to escape with three other girls with the help of Visayan Forum Foundation. Today, she is back in school and is a youth leader of a movement of domestic workers. She is helping trafficking victims recover from trauma, living as an example of resilience and advocating policy reforms to protect Filipino migrant workers.
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Founder, Director and Board Secretary, Prayasam
Amlan Ganguly is the Founder of Prayasam. His ideas about health education have been recognised globally as both timely and important. Ashoka Innovators for the Public awarded him the prestigious Ashoka Fellowship in 2006. In 2007, he was invited by the Rockefeller Foundation to attend the Urban Summit in Bellagio, Italy and he has contributed to the book, Century of the City: No Time to Lose. Amlan recently received the Ford Fellowship.
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Co-Founder and CEO, Kijamii Agency
Bassem Elhady is a computer and systems engineer, internet entrepreneur, social media researcher and analyst. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Kijamii, a Cairo based agency specialised in social media marketing. He is also the Co-Founder and Head of Innovations team at TEDxCairo, part of the independently organised TEDx programme dedicated to ideas worth spreading. Bassem is an INJAZ Egypt alumnus, where he first discovered his entrepreneurial streak. He is passionate about studying and understanding users’ behaviours on various social networks.
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CEO, INJAZ Egypt
Dina El- Mofty is the founder of Injaz Egypt an organization which has a strong educational focus on entrepreneurship and work readiness and is part of the Junior Achievement worldwide network.
Injaz works in partnership with schools and universities across Egypt, and has helped impact more than half a million young people through its entrepreneurial and work readiness programs. The organization also has a strong focus on supporting young entrepreneurs through its Startup incubator and helps them launch and accelerate their businesses. Injaz has seed funded and supported over 60 successful startup businesses over the past six years.
Dina is also a partner at Inspo a company focused on delivering leading global programs on personal and professional development in the Middle East. She is also actively involved with the American Chamber of Commerce as the Co-chair of the Women in Business Committee, and is a member of the US Egypt Business Council. Dina also serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University in Cairo.
Nominated as one of the world’s most influential young Arabs under 40 by Arabian Business , she is also a receiver of The Young Achiever of the year award for 2016 by AB. Dina holds a Graduate degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and pursued her undergraduate studies at Georgetown and graduated from the American University in Cairo. She also holds professional degrees from Penn State, Insead and Harvard.
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Development Specialist, Visayan Forum Foundation
Kip Oebanda, MDM, works on strategy, international networking and organisational development for the Visayan Forum in the Philippines. Kip was born in prison during the Marcos dictatorship. At 12, he led the first child-run radio programme in the country and won national media awards. At 14, he spoke at international conferences on children’s rights and established CLASP, an organisation of child labourers and advocates. The government recognised Kip through such awards as the Ninoy Aquino and Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines.
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President and CEO, ImagineNations Group
Rick Little is a “serial social entrepreneur,” having created numerous initiatives to promote hope and economic opportunity for millions of young people – now operating in more than 100 countries. He is founder of the ImagineNations Group, and developer of Silatech (in the Middle East). He founded the International Youth Foundation (IYF), created Quest International and was founding President of America’s Promise. His innovations have been featured in many publications and books, including the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul.
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Child Advisor, Prayasam
Salim Shekh was selected to attend the Parliamentary Forum on Children: Voices from the Field, which is comprised of concerned Members of Parliament, who play a major role in advising and influencing the attitudes of the executive and the legislature by giving greater prominence to children’s issues. Salim is a child advisor to Prayasam which has helped him discover his innate talent for public speaking.
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Child Advisor, Prayasam
Sikha Patra, a girl of 14 years who lives in Nehru Colony, Calcutta, is one of the Child Area Health Minders and Child Advisors to Prayasam. She was also the youngest participant chosen among four adolescents to speak on National Girl Child Day, hosted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in New Delhi, to share her experiences of the problems faced by adolescent girls, especially early marriage and the innovative strategies being implemented by her group in the community, as well as peer education to those in outreach areas.
