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Forging Ahead
Choosing a Hero to shadow
Who: Kjerstin Erickson is the founder of FORGE.
She is 24 years old. She is a student at Stanford. And in her spare time, she works in three refugee camps in Zambia, helping 60,000 refugees build better lives. Interesting interview here.
FORGE’s bottom-up approach is to facilitate a process through which post-conflict communities come up with their own unique and entrepreneurial solutions desgined around their specific challenges, needs, and assets. The options are limitless, and yet its consistently difficult to get people to think beyond the traditional interventions that they’ve always seen. Breaking established thought and dependency patterns is no easy task. It takes immense patience, creativity, and faith. And yet once it does happen, it’s pure magic.
Why: I really admire the initiative, innovation and motivation of this woman. An incredible vision and undertaking. What really struck me about this social entrepreneur is reflected in the passage above: this bottom-up approach focuses on people in the communities. They're involved with the identifying the problems and the solutions, rooted from their own social world & contexts. This is a good fit for own views about social innovation.
How: I signed up for a newsletter and I'm also following them on twitter @socialedge
The 'take-away': "The reality is that [Africans] are dynamic, social and economic actors who have the potential and desire to control their own lives, livelihoods, and futures."
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Comment by PJE on April 8, 2010 at 5:01pm
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She is fantastic everyone here should see her! Thank you so much for introducing her and her project. Now I am going to have to go straight back to Social Edge because I see there:
"Tipping the world: The power of collaborative entrepreneurship" By Bill Drayton #SocEnt http://bit.ly/cNYj6f 47
which has to be relevant too.
Thank you!
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