An ex silicon star and the founder of Zoho Corporation
An ex silicon star and the founder of Zoho Corporation
A noted educator, social entrepreneur
Urvashi Sahni is a noted educator, social entrepreneur, and writer from India. She is the founder and CEO of Study Hall Educational Foundation, an organization committed to empowering underprivileged girls through education.
‘To change mindsets, you have to start at school. It’s not just about reading and writing and counting. It’s about developing social and political consciousness. You want them to have a good life.’ She believes.
Ms Sahni has worked with hundreds of schools and touched the lives of thousands of girls through her work. She was conferred with the ‘Social Entrepreneur Of The Year‘ award by the Schwab-Jubilant Bharatiya Foundation in 2017 for her contributions.
An ex silicon star and the founder of Zoho Corporation
Harish Hande co-founded SELCO INDIA (in 1995) with a mission to promote sustainable technologies as a means of eradicating poverty. The company challenged the traditional belief that the poor cannot afford or maintain green energy. It now sells, services, and finances renewable energy to the rural community and has substantially improved the quality of their life.
Harish aims to address global climate change through SELCO. He is convinced that delivering green energy to developed countries is not the answer to the climatic disruption we are witnessing:
“The planet will be destroyed by the billions of people in the developing world who will be forced to use non-optimal forms of energy to meet their absolute basic needs.”
Moreover, the disadvantaged section of society lacks the funds to fulfil their basic energy needs. Access to green and renewable energy will break them free from the debt trap and help them realize their entrepreneurial potential.
A recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Hande’s initiative has blessed more than 500,000 poor households across 6 Indian states with renewable energy resources. After seeing for himself how rural lives could be changed for the better with solar energy, Hande was fuelled with a passion to apply the same strategy in Indian villages. Today, he is globally recognized as one of the pioneers in rural energy engineering.
Harish Hande co-founded SELCO INDIA (in 1995) with a mission to promote sustainable technologies as a means of eradicating poverty. The company challenged the traditional belief that the poor cannot afford or maintain green energy. It now sells, services, and finances renewable energy to the rural community and has substantially improved the quality of their life.
Harish aims to address global climate change through SELCO. He is convinced that delivering green energy to developed countries is not the answer to the climatic disruption we are witnessing:
“The planet will be destroyed by the billions of people in the developing world who will be forced to use non-optimal forms of energy to meet their absolute basic needs.”
Moreover, the disadvantaged section of society lacks the funds to fulfil their basic energy needs. Access to green and renewable energy will break them free from the debt trap and help them realize their entrepreneurial potential.
A recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Hande’s initiative has blessed more than 500,000 poor households across 6 Indian states with renewable energy resources. After seeing for himself how rural lives could be changed for the better with solar energy, Hande was fuelled with a passion to apply the same strategy in Indian villages. Today, he is globally recognized as one of the pioneers in rural energy engineering.
An ex silicon star and the founder of Zoho Corporation
A noted educator, social entrepreneur
Back in 2006, Blake Mycoskie was on a vacation in Argentina when he met a woman volunteering to deliver shoes to children, who inspired him to start TOMS Shoes LLC, a for-profit company based in California. The one-for-all business model developed by Mycoskie delivers a pair of shoes to a child in need for every sale made of their retail products. However, the company has expanded its objectives now delivering sight, water, bullying prevention services, among others to children in developing countries.
The ‘One Day Without Shoes’ campaign launched by TOMS garnered attention from the international community to the number of kids in underprivileged families who can’t afford a pair of shoes. Every year, the event encourages people to go shoeless and raise awareness about how we have taken shoes for granted.
An ex silicon star and the founder of Zoho Corporation
An ex silicon star and the founder of Zoho Corporation
An American entrepreneur, author, and speaker
Jeffrey Hollender is an American entrepreneur, author, and speaker who co-founded American Sustainable Business Council, a growing coalition of business networks that foster a vibrant, just, and sustainable economy.
The aftermath of the Vietnam war incited a sense of responsibility and possibility in Jeffrey Hollender. He was convinced that each individual is obliged towards the welfare of others and possesses the capability to bring about a change in the world.
Hollender says: “We will never solve the myriad of complex problems we face one at a time. Social inequity produces poverty, poverty results in hunger, hunger encourages unsustainable agricultural practices that result in global climate change.”
He has written several best-selling books and worked with leading companies like Wal-Mart, Nike, Microsoft, and Kimberly Clark to help them become more sustainable and socially responsible.
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