Ashoka Belgium

Ashoka acts by

	Rigorously selecting the best social entrepreneurs in the world who become "Ashoka Fellow" and gives them access to their network and resources.
	Ashoka gives the opportunity to these entrepreneurs to focus on their business by paying them a salary and offering them support to professionalize their model.
	The Ashoka Support Network brings together companies and individuals who make their skills available to help Fellows become more professional and increase their impact.
	Ashoka selects and supports schools around the world to better educate future generations to become "Changemakers".

Impact

	Supports more than 3,000 social entrepreneurs
	Present in more than 90 countries
	10 Fellows in Belgium among the most inspiring social entrepreneurs
	Supports more than 200 schools to improve the educational system, including 8 in Belgium.
	56% of Fellows influenced the laws of their countries
	93% of the Fellows’ projects are replicated

History

Bill Drayton, the founder and current president of Ashoka is a graduate of Harvard, Yale and Oxford. After a career at McKinsey & Co in the United States, he founded the Ashoka network in 1980 with the mission of selecting and supporting innovative people around the world. He coined the term "social entrepreneur" when he realized that many entrepreneurs were using entrepreneurship to solve certain social problems. Since 1980, Ashoka has developed a large network of "Ashoka Fellows" active in several sectors. Last year, Kailash Satyarthi (an Ashoka Fellow) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against child labor in India. He was selected for the Ashoka Fellowship in 1991.