This episode of Meaningful was recorded and produced in collaboration with FieldWorks. FieldWorks is a cooperative information platform that helps funders and local NGOs to connect, build trust and form strong partnerships for sustainable social change. They are the first platform that helps local NGOs develop an online profile to grow their creden…

Demiladé Falola-Apooyin works as an International Trade and Development Policy Advisor at the UK Department of International Trade. In her spare time, however, Demi is the founder and chief executive of the Women in International Affairs Network (WIAN), an online community that seeks to empower young women around the world to break into different c…

Alyssa Chassman is the founder of the ID House, a social entreprise she set up in 2016 to empower young people around the world to advance positive social change in their communities. Having adopted the model of hackathons to solve social problems, Alyssa has since worked with over 2000 young people to help them bring their world-changing ideas to …

TW: depression, suicide, mental health stigma Nadia Khan is a researcher, mental health activist and community organiser from the United Kingdom. She is a co-founder of The Delicate Mind, a social enterprise that works to engage faith leaders and other members in the Muslim community in nuanced, science-based discussions about mental health, mascul…

Barbara Cveni? is a Data Scientist at DonorsChoose.org, a non-profit organisation that provides a platform for public school teachers to raise funds for materials and supplies for their classrooms from ordinary citizens across the United States. In this episode we talk about: Finding purpose; The impact of volunteering overseas; Getting the first j…

Mohsin Mohi Ud Din is the founder and CEO of #MeWe International, an organisation that is most well-known for its initiative #MeWeSyria. In this episode we talk about: Growing up between two different countries; Storytelling as a tool for psychosocial support, for social and emotional education, and for activating young community leaders; MeWe Inte…

Helen Patuck is a storyteller and the founder of Kitabna, a non-profit social business that publishes and distributes children’s books to refugees worldwide. Since 2014, Kitabna has printed over 17,000 copies of its 7 titles and developed a methodology to train refugee teachers to use its books as a social and educational resource for refugee youth…

Tola Akindipe is one of those people who easily wear multiple hats. Among his most impressive achievements is the co-founding of Refugees Welcome Portugal and a successful campaign he led at the University of Essex to establish a scholarship programme for refugee students. Today, he works as an Associate Reporting Officer at the United Nations Refu…

Dominique Uwase Alonga is a Rwandan entrepreneur who in 2015 founded Imagine We Rwanda, a social enterprise on a mission to develop a vibrant reading culture in Rwanda and across Africa through advocacy and publication of books written about Africans by Africans. Dominique was only 22 when she quit her first post-university job and set out to estab…

Emma Holten is an acclaimed feminist activist who came into the public eye after launching The Consent Project with a Danish photographer Cecilie Bødker in September 2014 . The Consent Project was a direct response to Emma’s personal experience of becoming a victim of revenge porn a few years earlier and to a number of toxic discourses on the subje…

Duro Oye is an activist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur from London, United Kingdom. Over a decade ago Duro walked away from his life on the streets to start everything from scratch . Now, as the co-founder and COO of the 2020 Change Foundation, Duro works with disadvantaged young men and women to help them leave the streets and shape them in becoming…

Katie Carlson is the founder of the Paper Crown Institute, an organisation that engages girls and young women in education and capacity building programmes in Rwanda. Based in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, Katie has built an impressive career for herself. In five short years she has gone from struggling in an unfulfilling job to becoming an entrepreneu…