Wedu’s Global Mentorship Programme pairs mentors with mentees to achieve,excel and hone their leadership skills. It is designed to aspire a meaningful leadership journey for both the mentees and mentors. The picture above is of Julie, Srey Nak and Smarika - a mentorship trio! Julie...
Ashwathy Venugopal, a Rising star at Wedu since 2020, is an entrepreneur who runs Avasarshala, a platform that helps children discover their interests and talents. During this lockdown, parents are being stretched thin with the additional task of making the idle time productive for kids. Ashwathy’s...
Silviya, currently running a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) called Target Health Nepal, in a rural municipality of Nepal, has been a Rising Star since 2019. Working in rural villages since the past 2 years, Silviya has seen people live under extreme poverty and struggle to...
Moury, currently a Senior Public Health Officer with Oxfam in the Rohingya Influx, has been a Rising Star since 2015. Being a part of the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion (WASH) team, they have trained community-based volunteers and oriented the key stakeholders including Majhi(community leader), Imam,...
Ravina B. Shrestha has been a Rising Star from Nepal since 2014. Being a doctor, she feels it is her responsibility to share the correct information on Covid-19, which is why she created a video in her local language, which has over 14,000 views. As more...
Rasma Muzaffar hails from Chittagong, Bangladesh and is a dentist as well as a Masters in Public Health student. She became a Rising Star in 2019. With the vision to tackle Covid-19 and help her community, Rasma along with 40 other doctors/dentists opened up a...
Andrea Faye Selorio Mendoza is a 21 year old Disc Jockey at One Radio 101.3 in Philippines, and she became a Rising Star in March 2020. She informs that in the Philippines, Covid-19 has affected a lot of aspects - the way of living, educational...
I am Maria Ana, one of the delegates from the Philippines in the recently held YSEALI Generation Workshop: Advancing Gender Equality. As a law student, I have always been passionate on the advocacy of gender equality. I am aware that gender equality is one of the...
From the 7th to the 11th of October 2019, I was granted the honour to represent Malaysia in the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Advancing Gender Equality Workshop in Brunei Darussalam. Working together with Wedu, the US Embassy of Bandar Seri Begawan and The...
In the last 9 years, I have with been working with 10ThousandWindows in helping survivors of violence and exploitation by providing economic empowerment services for them to live safe, free and hopeful lives. What I saw was a lot of older women and LGBTQs losing...