Today the Project Inspire team mourn the loss of one of our own – 2011 & 2012 Project Inspire Head Judge, Patrick Turner. Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise...
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Category Archives: Singapore Committee for UN Women
Few people look at gender equality the way 28-year-old Sombodhi Ghosh, from India, does. When Sombodhi realised the female helpers around him were being shunned during their monthly menstrual cycle,…
It was just like any other evening for 34-year-old Anietie Etuk, from Nigeria. “I was driving home from work when I noticed a mother with two children, selling bananas from…
Sara Gingold, 23, from Australia, is a volunteer for Cambodian-Singaporean non-profit organisation, Riverkids. Sara – along with her teammates; Peo Bona, 30, from Cambodia, and Elaine Woon, 42, from Singapore…
Shrutikantha Kandali, 23, from India, is a qualitative researcher and writer for non-profit organisation, Going to School. Shrutikantha – along with her teammates; 33-year-old Nishi Arora, 30-year-old Satyam Vyas, and…
After experiencing the limitations of trying to create positive social change in the public sector, Alana Hitchcock Weber, from the USA, decided to take matters into her own hands. In 2012,…
2014 FINALIST | “Because I am a woman” – The Vietnamese woman helping others reach for a better life
Ask anyone who works in gender equality why women’s empowerment is important to them, and you’ll receive an array of responses, often citing facts and figures which serve to prove…
Sheena Jamora, 28, from the Philippines, is the Executive Director of non-profit organisation, Sinag. Sheena – along with teammates Meiling Lee, 28, and Carlos Soriano, 28 – was recently named…
It’s an ambitious idea; start a food-processing plant in Bomba, Zimbabwe, which sources produce from local female growers. Then, use proceeds from the sale of the canned produce to fund…
Mention the word “pumpkin” to many people and it conjures responses such as “Halloween”, “the colour orange”, “an affectionate nickname” and the perennial favourite, “soup”. But for Joyce Kyalema, from Uganda,…