Ashoka is an NGO, a network of changemakers, that promotes social innovation. Through its actions, it aims to accelerate ideas and initiatives with a positive societal impact, to prepare the future now. Its mission is twofold:
1. DETECT social entrepreneurs whose innovations respond to societal challenges in all areas (health, environment, education…) and ASSIST them in their development;
2. CONNECT actors from different backgrounds, from civil society as well as the public and private sectors, to ACCELERATE the emergence of new models in favor of the general interest.
Since 1981, Ashoka has been building the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs, which today brings together more than 4,000 social entrepreneurs in 95 countries, including Muhammad YUNUS (Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006), Jimmy WALES (founder of Wikipedia) and Moussa Camara (founder of Les Déterminés).
Ashoka has become the 7th most influential NGO!
After a long and demanding recruitment process, Lucile became an Ashoka Fellow and joined this global laboratory of social innovation, which accompanies all social entrepreneurs who are changing the norm.