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By Abigail Noble
Yesterday, 35 social entrepreneurs from around the world convened at Davos to discuss how the power of social innovation can improve the state of the world.
Among those attending Davos for the first time include Asher Hasan of Naya Jeevan, which works with healthcare access in Pakistan, Francesco Piazzesi from Mexico who pioneered social mortgages and the micro-construction industry, Wendy Kopp, an American social entrepreneur who transformed the state of teaching in public education through Teach for All as well as Christoph Sutter and Renat Heuberger of South Pole Carbon who set the stage for the global model of carbon offset credits.
Davos veterans include Sheela Patel, founder of SPARC in India and Slum Dwellers International which works with informal economies across 22 countries, Helio Mattar of Brazil, who pioneered the Sustainable Consumption movement, Mel Young of Homeless World Cup in the UK which uses sports to energize the homeless to reinvigorate their lives, and Martin Burt of Fundacion Paraguaya, which extends access to finance and entrepreneurial education to the poor, and Harish Hande who through SELCO Solar Power brought the concept of affordable renewable energy into the mainstream.
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