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Travel with Love

Travel with Love

When she was a little girl, Zheng Chu Yun loved to watch airplanes flying across the sky and she even chased after them. Though she could no longer do that post diagnosis with muscular dystrophy, she made a vow that one day she would sit on the plane and let ...

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Green School Bali: An ode to bamboo, the world’s future

Green School Bali: An ode to bamboo, the world’s future

Located 20 minutes North of Denpasar and 15 minutes South of Ubud, Green School’s eight-hectare campus sits among lush vegetation, divided by the Ayung River. It looks more like a serene, though rustic, holiday resort than a school. The school’s tagline is “Equipping Children For 2025”. By that, the Hardys want, ...

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Seeing Me for Who I Am

Seeing Me for Who I Am

You may have heard the expression “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”, but is that really true? What comes to mind when you see a blind person walking down the street? According to most people I ask, they tell me they either feel pity or admiration.

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Open Source Technology for Rural Hospitals in Thailand

Open Source Technology for Rural Hospitals in Thailand

Dr Kongkiat Kespechara, a self-taught computer programmer, medical doctor and social entrepreneur from Thailand, shares his experience setting up and running Hospital OS with SEforum. Hospital OS is an open-source software that enables small rural hospitals to more effective employ their resources to serve and to address the health issues ...

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A look at Thailand’s young fleet of “ICT4D” social entrepreneurs

A look at Thailand’s young fleet of “ICT4D” social entrepreneurs

Internet cafes and computer gaming centers line every major street in Bangkok. With that, Thailand’s new generation of innovators are no strangers to Information & Communication Technology (ICT). But what's more, they are not satisfied in using these important ICT skills for just pursuing monetary returns. Thailand is fast becoming a ...

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Barely a decade ago, Xiong was still unemployed, struggling to support himself despite being wheelchair-bound. Now, he is a well-known stone crafter in Taiwan, and has touched the hearts of many Taiwanese with the publication of his life story.
All this was made possible through Cornerstone Works, a social enterprise based in Taiwan. The organization helped [...]

 
Feature Articles, News / Posted: Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Green School Bali: An ode to bamboo, the world’s future

By Esther Au Yong
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Located 20 minutes North of Denpasar and 15 minutes South of Ubud, Green School’s eight-hectare campus sits among lush vegetation, divided by the Ayung River. It looks more like a serene, though rustic, holiday resort than a school.

The school’s tagline is “Equipping Children For 2025”. By that, the Hardys want, besides teaching the standard International Baccalaureate (IB) and International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) syllabus, to inculcate in their students the love of learning.

 
Feature Articles, News / Posted: Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Bloomerang

Made to recycle
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Produced by social enterprise Bloomerang, the innovative concept of well-designed and eco-friendly paper hanger bloomerHang—a finalist in the President’s Design Award 2009—relates a creative business idea with low capital start up. Hence, Bloomerang need not rely on the grants or funding that sometimes comes with the social tag. And at the same time, it fulfills both environmental and social aims.

 
Feature Articles, News / Posted: Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

INSIGHT: Social Initiatives

Part One: Clay IN-SIGHT
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The recent flourishing of social enterprises to support and integrate the visually impaired community is a heartening sign of Singapore society progressively becoming more inclusive.
These social enterprises range from traditional outfits employing the visually impaired people in consumer services, such as the Society for the Physically Disabled’s (SPD) mobile massage and car-washing services, to [...]

 
Feature Articles, News / Posted: Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

My Dog, My Companion, My Guide

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A typical day for beautiful golden Labrador retriever, Kendra, is waking up next to her loving master, followed by donning her full regalia of harness, leash, and ID tags, which reveals her professional role.