Life Line - Stories of Changemakers for the SDGs

🇵🇭 Carla Mumar is serving underserved students in the Philippines to help them develop a growth mindset and their « grit » so they can find a purpose and unleash their potential. ✅ Carla always believed that she could have a fulfilling life without ticking all the boxes and wanted to prove she could be successful without a university degree.  🤩 She started her career as a call cen...

In this teaser, Ashreen Mridha shares some of the impact stories of Deshi Ballers that keep her going along the years, despite all the struggles and challenges. For the full episode, please search "#33 Ashreen Mridha 🇧🇩 - Women’s empowerment through basketball" wherever you are listening to Life Line :). 🇧🇩 Ashreen Mridha is the former captain of Bangladesh national basketball team and co-founder...

🇧🇩 Ashreen Mridha is the former captain of Bangladesh national basketball team and co-founder of Deshi Ballers, a women-led organization on a mission to:  -empower women and girls through basketball; -advocate for equal rights for women to access sports; -and promote basketball in a cricket and football-dominated country. 🏀 She walks us through her journey from discovering basketball as a sc...

In this teaser, David Nguyen shares about his giver and pay-it-forward mindset, the ingredients for a great story, and explains why he would slap his younger self! For the full episode, please search "#32 David Nguyen 🇨🇭🇻🇳 - Spreading joy, one movie at a time" wherever you are listening to Life Line :). 🇨🇭🇻🇳 David Nguyen is an award-winning filmmaker and movie director from Switzerland with Vietna...

🇨🇭🇻🇳 David Nguyen is an award-winning filmmaker and movie director from Switzerland with Vietnamese roots.  💪 He is the best film director I’ve ever met and worked with, whether it’s for his passion, creativity, craziness or talent - he has everything and that’s why his movies were screened in so many international film festivals all around the world! (Gässli Film Festival, Schweizer Jugendf...

In this teaser, Alinery shares her childhood growing up in her village in Mizoram (India), how she was the best at school and how all the dots connected for the birth of her social enterprise "Rochun: Pay It Forward". For the full episode, please search "#16 Alinery Lianhlawng 🇮🇳 - Unleashing the talent of grassroots youth" wherever you are listening to Life Line :). 🇮🇳 Alinery Lianhlawng is a sup...

In this teaser, Laraib shares the birth of Flare of MASHAL , her social enterprise that empowered 25,000 women to make informed decisions on family planning. For the full episode, please search "#31 Laraib Abid 🇵🇰 - Bridging the gap in reproductive health" wherever you are listening to Life Line :). 🇵🇰 Laraib Abid is a sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) activist from Pakistan. She has le...

🇵🇰 Laraib Abid is a sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) activist from Pakistan. She has lead actions on this cause from grassroots to policy level and developed the first mobile and web application, “Bridge the Gap”, allowing all youth to trace free and easily accessible SRH services available around them. 💥 She shares her journey launching Flare of MASHAL, which has empowered 25,000 wom...

For the full episode, please search "#30 Anahita Hosseini 🇮🇷 - Keep exploring, accepting & improvising" wherever you are listening to :). 🇮🇷 Anahita Hosseini is a multi-talented Iranian youth and a proud generalist who’s always the first one to say “yes” to new things and to take the lead when working on new projects. 🎧 Main link for this episode with all the references and platforms to liste...

🇮🇷 Anahita Hosseini is a multi-talented Iranian youth and a proud generalist who’s always the first one to say “yes” to new things and to take the lead when working on new projects. 💪 She shares with us why she enjoys learning as much as possible, how she learned to be social and to take risks, and how she built her confidence and leadership skills by embracing her vulnerability.  💥 She’s a...

For the full episode, please search "#29 Mahenaz Chowdhury 🇧🇩 - Building the slow fashion movement in Bangladesh" wherever you are listening to :). 🇧🇩 Mahenaz Chowdhury is a sustainable fashion, zero waste and gender activist on a mission to break stereotypes and build the slow fashion movement in Bangladesh. She founded the upcycled fashion label Broqué and is the Ambassador for Slow Fashion...

🇧🇩 Mahenaz Chowdhury is a sustainable fashion, zero waste and gender activist on a mission to break stereotypes and build the slow fashion movement in Bangladesh.  ♻️ She founded Broqué, the first upcycled fashion label and textile recycling innovation lab of Bangladesh and is the Ambassador of Slow Fashion Bangladesh. She’s fighting every day to reduce the water impact of the fashion industr...

For the full episode, please search "#28 Kelly Vo 🇻🇳 - Creating opportunities, unleashing potential" wherever you are listening to :). 🇻🇳 Kelly (Tuyen) Vo is a connector, community builder and podcaster proudly born in Saigon, Vietnam, who’s passionate about bringing opportunities and resources to those who need it the most. If you’ve been following Life Line, she is the perfect example of a socia...

🇻🇳 Kelly (Tuyen) Vo is a connector, community builder and podcaster proudly born in Saigon, Vietnam, who’s passionate about bringing opportunities and resources to those who need it the most. If you’ve been following Life Line, she is the perfect example of a social gardener! 👏 Kelly is currently the Head of the Philanthropy Services Department at the LIN Center for Community Development, a non-p...

🇮🇳 Amit Jain is the co-founder of Mitti Ke Rang, a social enterprise working towards generating livelihoods for women in India. They train women entrepreneurs to start small businesses and support them to sell their handicrafts across the country.  😄 Amit says he’s always happy - nothing can make him unhappy, except 2 things: when his customers are not satisfied, and when the women entrepren...

🇳🇵 Neha Malla is a health & nutrition activist on a mission to bring basic health care services to the furthest behind in Nepal and strengthen their nutrition status. She is passionate about primary health care, maternal-child health and nutrition and co-founded SOCHAI in 2016, which has been recognised internationally by UNICEF and One Young World. 👩‍👧 We go through the birth of SOCHAI, how...

🇨🇳 Linka Lin is an amazing human being from China who is a community builder, an entrepreneur, a mentor, a facilitator and a cheerleader for so many young changemakers in Asia-Pacific. 🙌 Today’s episode is very special: we welcome back Linka who was our first amazing guest a few months ago because there was still so many things to speak about with her. So today you will hear about her experience...

🇯🇵 Shunsuke Miyatake (Take) is a photographer from Japan on a mission to spotlight everyday life moments, those that usually go through life unnoticed.  📸🇰🇭 He started taking random photos with his iPhone in 2010, deleted everything, quickly learned the basics, restarted by taking photos of his kids in traditional Japanese moments, bought a proper camera, and started capturing the beauty of...

🇵🇭 Pamela Mejia is a fashion social entrepreneur from the Philippines who founded both PHINIX to turn textile waste into higher value products and FIBERS to train other fashion social entrepreneurs.  💪 She shares with us her crazy adventure launching and growing her first fashion business at 17 years old while in high school, and then all her learnings from her 2nd and 3rd fashion businesses...

🇻🇳 Mai is a climate journalist and youth advocate from Vietnam. She writes poetry about mosquitos, trains aspiring climate journalists and has coordinated the first-ever Special Report on Youth Climate Action in Vietnam with UNDP Viet Nam. 💪 She shares with us the start of her climate advocacy at 13 years old, her experience as the youngest Climate Tracker Journalism Fellow at the 24th UN Climate...

🇵🇭 Jan is an artist, climate activist and survivor of Super Typhoon Haiyan that ravaged the Philippines in 2013. He uses performing arts to raise awareness on the climate crisis and works to engage the art sector in climate negotiations.  We discuss his first life as a civil servant at the Government Youth Council and his second life dedicated to climate advocacy, at grassroots and internatio...

🇲🇾 Yee Siang (Ashley) is a youth and environment advocate from Malaysia, who is passionate about building youth communities for sustainable development. She is currently serving as the youth representative to the UN for Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation while coordinating their youth empowerment program in the Republic of Sierra Leone.  💪 Her story is a great example of youth empowerment. She mana...

🇸🇬 Edward is a serial social entrepreneur from Singapore, passionate about financial inclusion. His purpose is to amplify the impact of innovators that are traditionally left behind with Givfunds. 💪 He shares with us his long journey understanding his purpose, startup after startup, trip after trip, train after train, and his long journey from struggling in primary school to completing 2 Master D...

🇧🇹 Tashi is an “accidental entrepreneur” empowering the first wave of social entrepreneurs in Bhutan. He founded iHub, the first private coworking space and pre-incubation programme in the country, learning how to run a business along with the entrepreneurs he was supporting.  We discussed why he quit a comfortable job in Singapore to restart everything in Bhutan, his crazy journey finding an...

🇫🇷🇻🇳 Thuan is a French-Vietnamese PhD student who is exploring the coffee of tomorrow, or in other words, the coffee that can adapt to climate change.  He is passionate about popular science, tried to be a renowned YouTuber, and has been writing about environment, climate, coffee and his daily life stories on his personal Medium blog since 2015.  ☕ We discuss about the journey of discov...