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How can you improve lives within your community? How do you solve real problems around you? Hear from people who took matters into their own hands, to help those around them through innovative initiatives with social purpose. Find out how social entrepreneurs drive impact to make a difference. This podcast is by Expo Live, produced by Kerning Cultures Network.
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Yousuf Caires: What’s next for our Global Innovators?
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For the past four years, the team at Expo Live has been working closely with 140 Global Innovators from all around the world. At the beginning of this series, Yousuf Caires, the Senior Vice President of Expo Live, introduced what the innovation programme is all about. Over the course of the show, we've spoken to an array of brilliant and bold innov…
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Conrad Tankou: A New Take on Screening Cervical Cancer
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How do you change the design of a device that was invented over one hundred years ago? Back in 2015, a medical entrepreneur in Cameroon named Conrad Tankou started a social venture called GIC Space that develops cutting edge technologies to target the most urgent health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. One of them is the smart speculum: a new take…
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When Jurij Dreo read a book entitled, ‘Electric fields of the brain: the neurophysics of EEG’, he was quite happy to see that there are people out there that share his convictions when it comes to how the brain should be studied. It always seemed like a small wonder to Jurij that one is able to pick up a small EEG device and get a recording of what…
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Kitty Liao: The Last Mile of Vaccine Delivery
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In 2015, Kitty Liao attended a humanitarian hackathon. The event brought together people from humanitarian organisations to present some of the most pressing issues they are faced with out in the field. One of these problems was that vaccines become spoiled before they arrive at the destination during transport. Kitty spent two months as a hacker i…
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Siddharth Hande: Decentralised Waste Management
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Siddharth Hande worked in the development sector for about eight years before starting Kabadiwalla Connect. The idea came about in college when he used to organise beach cleanups every week through a youth group called Reclaim Our Beaches. Today, Siddharth is the founder and CEO of Kabadiwalla Connect: they provide decentralised waste management so…
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Irina Mkrtchyan: Tackling Waste Management in Armenia
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Back in 2017, Irina got together with two friends to tackle proper waste management: one of Armenia's big challenges. They started approaching organisations and donors, and setting up recycling bins in several locations in Armenia. Today, Irina is one of the co-founders of Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development. ISSD is an NGO that is wor…
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Suzanne Shian: Partnering with Refugee Chefs
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Suzanne Shian is one of three co-founders behind PichaEats, a social enterprise in Malaysia that aims to empower lives among the refugee community through a food business. The business model behind PichaEats is a 50-50 partnership with chefs. Each chef will source and buy ingredients, and PichaEats will pay them double, meaning 100% profit for the …
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Shaun Vorster: Finding Untold Stories Around the World
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Back in 2015, Shaun Vorster, a strategist and advisor, was responsible for incubating the Expo Live programme. After incubating the programme, Shaun was part of the selection committee that was tasked with choosing the Global Innovators from all the applications. What makes the Expo Live programme stand out? Shaun shares the journey, challenges, an…
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Renat Anpilogov: Making Travel and Adventure Accessible
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Several years ago, Renat Anpilogov was teaching at a musical college for the visually impaired - part of his role was organizing concerts in different cities for the students, which included helping them explore their surroundings. When Renat's wife's grandfather became ill and bound to a wheelchair, he and his partner became convinced that travell…
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Tarun Bothra: Innovating Women’s Hygiene Products
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When Tarun Bothra co-founded Saathi, only 16% of women had access to sanitary napkins in India, the world’s sixth largest economy. Saathi is a purpose-driven social enterprise that develops 100% compostable, biodegradable hygiene products for women out of banana and bamboo fiber. Today, Saathi is impacting communities around the world and using inn…
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Illac Diaz: Making Solar Energy More Accessible
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Liter of Light started in 2013 at a very dark time in the Philippines, as an emergency lighting system during one of the first and largest category five storms, typhoon Haiyan. Today, as the founder and global director of Liter of Light, Illac Diaz has built both a grassroots and a global movement. It uses inexpensive, readily available materials t…
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Emer Beamer: Designing a Better Future Through Imagination
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Someone who has always believed in the power of young people is Emer Beamer, a social designer and educator based in Amsterdam. Emer is the co-founder and programme lead for an organisation called Design-a-thon Works. Design-a-thon Works helps children develop their problem solving skills, empowering them to be changemakers. Schools and communities…
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Oscar and Naqiya: Play-based Learning with Seenaryo
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Back in 2015, Oscar Wood was teaching in London when a friend persuaded him to work with Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. They went out to refugee camps and built a show supported by theatre and play-based learning for children. This experience led Oscar to become the co-founder of Seenaryo, with Naqiya Ebrahim as CEO. Seenaryo is an org…
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Rowan Alawi: Merging Construction and Tech
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Rowan Alawi initially pursued a career in tech, despite her family’s construction business. During her travel between Ramallah and Jerusalem, Rowan spotted a problem: construction workers were sitting on the side road, waiting for someone to pick them up. She decided to solve this problem and founded ‘Amal in 2019. At first, it was a simple Google …
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In 2017, Iva Gumnishka founded an initiative, Humans in the Loop, to provide work opportunities for refugees coming into Bulgaria. In a world filled with armed conflict, Humans in the Loop provides job opportunities to those affected by violence and forced displacement. Since 2017, Iva has expanded their impact from Bulgaria to Syria, Iraq, Afghani…
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When Loubna Ksibi’s aunt opened a restaurant, she didn’t know how to navigate the business side of it. Despite her talented cooking, the restaurant ultimately failed. Loubna realized there were no resources for women like her aunt, and became one of the founders of Meet My Mama, a culinary project in France. Today, Meet My Mama enables women from a…
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The idea behind Mobility for Africa was born out of frustration. Having worked in the development sector in Africa and Asia for more than two decades, Shantha Bloemen was dismayed by the lack of mobility options available, especially for women. Shantha is the founder and managing director of Mobility for Africa, a social enterprise that is providin…
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David Davies: AgUnity, A Different Kind of Smartphone
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David Davies grew up in a wheat and sheep farming area in South Australia, where he ran wheat silos and got to learn about wheat and sheep farmers. Today, he runs AgUnity, taking low-cost smartphones and adapting them to become essential tools for low-income farmers around the world, from Columbia to Ethiopia to Papua New Guinea. This podcast is by…
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Dana and Sofiya: Supporting Global Innovators
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So far, we’ve heard from an array of wonderful, passionate, and determined Global Innovators from around the world. They’re all part of the Expo Live programme that’s funding new and innovative solutions to make our world a better place. But how does this programme work? Who are the people making it happen? Today, we learn about the other side of t…
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Today’s story starts in Gaza back in 2009 when a doctor informed Reem Al Franji that her two sons have a developmental disability. Reem and her husband went home that day shocked, googling all of the terms the doctor used, but they couldn’t find any reliable resources in Arabic. Over the years, Reem expanded her own knowledge in parenting children …
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How do you create a reliable source of water to communities in arid areas? The people of Ait Baamrane have lived on the edge of the Sahara Desert for centuries by relying on rain and well-water, but now, they’re facing intense droughts. Fascinated by fog, Jamila founded Dar Si Hmad, a women-led NGO in Morocco, stepped in to create the world’s large…
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As you’re listening to this episode, over 20% of the earth’s fertile land has already degraded. Deserts are spreading so fast that we may have 60 global harvests left. But about 15 years ago, an oil engineer from Norway figured out how to turn desert sand into fertile soil in less than seven hours — a process that until now had taken 7-12 years. To…
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Ahmed Abu Elhaz: Breaking the Stigma around Therapy
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In 2013, Ahmed Abu Elhaz had severe depression after an accident and struggled to find a trusted therapist in Egypt to help him through recovery. As a software engineer, Ahmed tackled the problem head-on by developing Shezlong, an online therapy app. After much trial and error, Shezlong now services over 80 countries and continues to tackle barrier…
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Maria Soledad Lopez: Empowering Tourism in Ecuador
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Maria had been working in the hospitality and tourism industry for over 15 years in her native country, Ecuador, when she spotted a problem. Despite Ecuador’s right cultural heritage, tourists would flock to the same popular destinations. Inspired by her father’s teachings, Maria launched GoRaymi.com alongside her brother, Diego, to promote lesser-…
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Sabrina Habib: Affordable and Accessible Childcare
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Sabrina Habib actually wanted to be a neurosurgeon after growing up with epilepsy as a child. But she quite literally stumbled into entrepreneurship after visiting what appeared to be a childcare center in Nairobi in 2011. With only six months of her business partner’s salary and some savings, Sabrina and her partner gave themselves a year to put t…
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Over a number of years, Hans Jorgen Wiberg had been losing his sight. Anytime he needed visual assistance, he called others on Facetime or Skype. In 2012, Hans met Christian at a startup event in Denmark, where Hans was presenting the idea behind Be My Eyes. Today, Christian is the CEO of Be My Eyes, an app that relies on a heartwarming philosophy …
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Noura Ismail: Creating Opportunities for Refugees
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When the Syrian War began during Noura’s junior year of undergrad, she witnessed its impact on her family back home in Syria and felt like she needed to do something. Ten years later, Noura Ismail is the Middle East Director of Talent Beyond Boundaries, an organisation that connects skilled refugees with international employment opportunities. With…
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Basim Albeladi: Advocating for Mental Health in Saudi Arabia
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How do you seek mental health support anonymously? In 2016, Basim Albeladi suffered an accident that brought the importance of his well-being into focus. After a month in the ICU, Basim returned home to Medina and two years later he launched the beta version of a mental health telemedicine app, Labyah. Today, Labyah has over 300,000 users and conti…
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Charles McJilton: creating Japan’s first food bank
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How do you begin to tackle nationwide food insecurity? When Charles and his team started Second Harvest in Japan, they didn’t just want to reduce food insecurity, they set out to eliminate food waste as well. Second Harvest is Japan’s only nationwide food bank, helping solve Japan’s food crisis over the past twenty years. This podcast is by Expo Li…
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What problem are you trying to solve and why do you care about it? Expo Live, a global grant programme, asked this question, and over 11,000 of the world’s brightest social entrepreneurs answered. 140 Global Innovators were selected - from Japan’s first food bank, to an app that connects the visually impaired to sighted volunteers. Yousuf Caires, E…
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How can you improve lives within your community? How do you solve real problems around you? Hear from people who took matters into their own hands, to help those around them through innovative initiatives with social purpose. Find out how social entrepreneurs drive impact to make a difference. Episodes are released every Sunday and Wednesday, subsc…
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Welcome to the Dréos Podcast, where you can access our newest music as well as occasional commentary from the band.
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