Life Line - Stories of Changemakers for the SDGs

🇮🇳 In today’s episode, you will meet Alinery, a super inspiring social entrepreneur and Indigenous youth leader from the tribal community of Mizoram, in India.  She founded Rochun: Pay It Forward which aims to empower youth from grassroots India through education to realize their full potential.  📚💻 She has built 11 libraries, mentored hundreds of young people, implemented digital lite...

🎤 “I was so determined to start a podcast that, every day, I would have a little goal: learning how to edit an audio, finding an intro music... It was an accumulation of tiny steps bringing me to my bigger goal: the launch date. But what I didn’t realize… of course, the launch day is just the beginning!” 🇭🇰 Regina launched Hashtag Impact Podcast to amplify the voices of changemakers in Hong Kong....

🇮🇳 Heeta Lakhani is a climate educator from India who gives all her energy to enhance the participation and power of youth in grassroots as well as international processes and policies. 🇺🇳 She is currently serving as the Global Focal Point for YOUNGO, the official youth constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).  💪 Heeta found her calling after a...

🎤 “Through my journey, I can observe how different I am from being a person without purpose with the person I am today. That makes a complete difference in anyone's life.” 🇻🇳 Milie is the co-founder of Innovation Incubator, a social enterprise that aims to unleash the leadership potential of young Vietnamese. Her mission is to foster social innovation and entrepreneurship for sustainabl...

🎤 “Tokenism was definitely a large challenge. For all policies, we ensure that the most vulnerable and young people are not only consulted, but part of the development, implementation and monitoring process”. 🇫🇯 Ra’eed Ali is known as “The Plastics Guy” in Fiji for his impact with Precious Plastic Fiji, the social enterprise he co-founded. He’s also a youth advocate with the Alliance for Future G...

🎤 “When I look back at my life, I want to be very proud of Daastan… proud that it has empowered thousands of storytellers who know there is someone out there they can turn into when they have an idea”. 💪 In today’s episode, you will be meeting Syed Ommer Amer, a storyteller, community builder and visionary from Pakistan who co-founded Daastan with the mission to put a book in every hands. ...

Asish Thakur is the co-founder and executive director of Glocal whose mission is to empower & build capacity of Nepali teenagers. 🎤 “I started volunteering in different organizations outside of school. I was getting into different worlds, I was meeting different people, even the high-level people in Nepal, and with all these activities… some people started telling me: ‘you are very young to d...

🎤 “I want people to know that I come from the province of the Philippines, from a small town in the mountain side. And I did my best to become who I wanted to be, I created something that you would not even imagine creating. I want to spread that positivity”. 💪 In today’s episode, you will be meeting Gladys Llanes, a fearless filmmaker from the Philippines. She shares with us how she was already...

🇮🇳 Shaan - Miss Earth India 2017, Climate & Gender Advocate. 🎤 “I used to get very affected with what people were saying, but I think it's a skill you have got to learn, especially if you are ambitious. Because any single time you are trying to reach a place where you become visible to other people, there will be some people who want to be in your place, but cannot for whatever reason, and th...

🎤 “Connecting with your own art is about connecting with your creativity and emotions. I want to help people express themselves, no matter through which channel: you can sing, you can dance, you can write, you can paint, you can cook!” 💪 In today’s episode, you will be meeting William, a French-born Vietnamese artist whose life mission is to empower people to express themselves through art, whet...

🎤 “Live life like practice. I think that is very different from what you were told when growing up. Somehow we expect ourselves to be successful from the start for some reason”. 💪 In today’s episode, you will be meeting Koyo, a visual artist who wants to develop empathy and understanding between people through storytelling.  Koyo sees her life as a succession of experiments, where each expe...

🎤 “How do you reconnect anyone with his or her own power of action? For young people, it can be: okay, I actually have the power to decide of my own life. For citizens, it can be: okay, as a group, we have the power to make something change”. 💪 In this episode, you will be meeting Anne-Laure, who is, in my opinion, one of the best facilitators I know! Her mission is to help citizens connect with...

Shomy - UNDP-Samsung Global Ambassador, Diana Legacy Award Recipient 2019, Co-Founder of Awareness 360. 🎤 “I felt like I really need to step up, take action, go out there and tell people that: look, I lost my mom four days ago because of this, so please take these things seriously so that you don't lose the people you love. So that's pretty much when it started and ever since I continued my WASH...

🎤 "If you don't have role models, be a role model!" 💪 In today’s episode, you will be meeting Yama, a Dutch-Afghan changemaker with many lives: from creating his own social startup (recycling car tyres to produce punching bags) to lecturing R&D at university, launching an inclusive investment fund, and much more! Yama will share with us how all his different experiences ultimately connect to...

🎤 "You have to DO. It will not be perfect but, at least, it will BE!" 💪 In today’s episode, you’ll be meeting Valentine, a young French social entrepreneur who created a unique kind of public speaking training to give a voice to the unheard. Valentine always wanted to make a difference but it took a succession of unexpected events for her to discover how. Valentine explains that she had the chan...

🎤 "I want to be a dose of inspiration for other people!". 💪 In today’s episode, you will be meeting Linka Lin, an amazing human being who is a community builder, an entrepreneur, a mentor, a facilitator and a cheerleader for so many young changemakers in Asia-Pacific. She will share with us her long journey transitioning from English and Chinese translation to supporting young social entrepreneu...

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