What Top Social Entrepreneurs Are Telling Us
Early Changemaking Stays with You for a Lifetime
Abstract
Ashoka Fellow Kritaya Sreesunpagit of Thailand started her first social change initiative in high school, convincing her peers to help a community build a new reservoir. Ashoka Fellow Christoph Schmitz of Germany started his first social business at 12, growing Christmas trees on a plot of his family farm to benefit the local orphanage. Kritaya and Christoph are just two of nearly half of Ashoka’s leading social entrepreneurs worldwide who knew they were changemakers before the age of 21. Their stories emerge from the 2018 Global Fellows Study which underscores a key finding: Over Ashoka’s 40-year history of finding and investing in the world’s top social entrepreneurs, there is a clear pattern of changemakers taking the lead from an early age.
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