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Dangerous places are the subject of countless debates and jokes. Guides are written about them, movies are filmed to describe them. The most dangerous become the stuff of legends.



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I've picked Shawn Ahmed, the creator of the Uncultured Project to shadow as a social innovation role model. He does what I want to do but haven't been able to. He has already changed peoples' lives in the world. His main focus is helping people in Bangladesh, especially after cyclone Sidr ravaged the region in 2007. He has already established a filtration system allowing the local residents to have clean drinking water and helped rebuild a schoolhouse. He is not a charity and works with people… Continue

On the first page of the first chapter of the comic here on EVOKE, there are these powerful words "We need real help, not fairy tales". Continue

"Listen to the right people. Okay, so you probably don’t know what it’s like to carry fifty pounds of firewood on your head. Well, don’t pretend that you do. Talk to someone who has done it. I believe that the key to innovation in international development is truly understanding the problem,…

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think like a child – children have no limit to their thinking. Being young myself I can relate to this 'secret' as the their open minds and skill too see at the most obvious points that are too obvious to be recognised by many of the intellectual people stdying the same issue. I don't necersarily agree with the no limit as they have one big limit - knowledge. But if we had a group of of the top scientists working with young and enthusiastic people many problems will be solved a lot quicker as… Continue

"Problems are not always obvious from afar (You really have to live for

a while in a society where no one has currency larger than a $1 bill to

understand the importance of money via mobile phones.)"



You never really know what someone's life is like until you have

experienced it for yourself. As Americans, most of us have grown up with our basic needs met along with thousands of luxuries that make our lives easier. Since we are raised with objects such as microwaves,… Continue

I have a chosen to shadow Charles Maisel for one reason - I think he is crazy. I have heard him talk on two occasions and both times he blew my mind with the oddness of his thoughts. Continue

I have to admit that I found this mission daunting when I first read it. Find a hero? You mean, right now? I should just adopt a hero into my heart just like that?



(Where I'm from, it's not popular to have a hero)



And yet, once I started looking, I didn't take long to find one. And it was instant recognition. As soon as I read about her and her work that I knew I had found a mentor and someone to inspire… Continue

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"...and how was soccer today?" I ask my daughter Mavis. Before the question has finished, however, she's disappeared from view. All that's left showing on the screen in my hand is the couch and her teddy Wilbur.



She reappears with an iceblock, and with stern words in her grandmother's voice in the background she focuses her attention back on me. "Soccer was fine dad. We lost again, but we lost awesomely."



"Josh!" This time the voice is coming from behind me, not out of the… Continue

As I moved around the web from one corner to another searching for a giant in “Social innovation and Enterprise,” to definitely make my new hero, I came across Leila Chirayath Janah, the founder and CEO of Samasource (http://www.samasource.org).



Samasource enables marginalized people from refugees in Kenya to women in rural Pakistan to receive life-changing work opportunities on the Internet. The core of this concept is microwork – little bits… Continue