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New book launch. Global Game Changers: 50 Stories of Impact and Innovation. Inspiring Change Across Six Continents.

What is the problem? In rural Colombia, a lone teacher manages the village school. She teaches five grades simultaneously in a single room with no library, a limited number of books, and inadequate electricity. These students skip weeks of schooling during harvest periods, fail to continue schooling because of a lack of income, and finally abandon schooling because they cannot cope. Escuela Nueva classroom Secondary school enrollment rates among rural children in Latin Americ

Solar Sister is a social enterprise solving energy poverty in Africa by training women entrepreneurs to sell clean energy in their villages.

Peek Vision is a social enterprise that uses smartphone-based screening and data intelligence to end preventable blindness across Africa and Asia.

Amartha is an Indonesian social enterprise that connects rural women entrepreneurs to capital through a cooperative group-lending platform.

Good Nature Agro is a Zambian social enterprise training smallholder farmers to grow high-value legumes and move into the middle class.

East Africa Fruits is a Tanzanian social enterprise using a cold chain to cut out middlemen between smallholder farmers and urban markets.

Sanivation is a Kenyan social enterprise that turns human waste into clean fuel briquettes, reducing deforestation and improving sanitation.

LifeBank is a Nigerian social enterprise delivering blood, oxygen, and a second chance to African hospitals through smart medical logistics.