GLOBAL VENTURE FUND 2011 Milestones - Ashoka

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Throughout Mexico, Mariana Baños has built a network of mental health care providers to offer free psychological services for women of all socioeconomic backgrounds with free, ongoing professional support to address the violence and underlying sense of disempowerment that many experience. North America In 2000 the United States Ashoka office elected its first Ashoka Fellow and with an accelerating rate is becoming a center of social innovation. 397 US Fellow Josh Nesbit is creating connected and coordinated rural health care systems, transforming the efficacy of decentralized rural public health by reinventing the role of the locally-based community worker thanks to smart and simple mobile-phone based solutions.
Addressing the enormous challenge of alcohol and drug addiction in Colombia, Efrén Martínez is inspiring a cultural paradigm shift to help the youth resist the temptations of substance abuse. He applies a methodology that calls for rediscovery of personal meaning in strategies exercised in families, schools, workplaces and the public sphere to spark national change. South America One of Ashoka’s flagship programs, Brazil operations began in 1986 and Ashoka’s reach quickly expanded to include 10 out of 13 countries. Spread throughout the Southern Cone and Andean Region, Latin America boasts the largest and one of the most robust group of Ashoka Fellows. 656 Through Ocean Planet in Peru, Kerstin Forsberg is educating and empowering coastal communities to sustainably manage their marine environment and develop strategic partnerships with other organizations, businesses and governments operating in the ocean ecosystem.
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