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Tech, Education, and Making a Difference in South Africa: Meet Justinus Adriaanse

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Nelson Mandela’s 1999 retirement brought these injustices further to the forefront, unveiling the deep-rooted inequalities within South Africa’s education system and society as a whole. Problem-solving with purpose “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

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Docquity, a community for healthcare professionals, raises $44M Series C

TechCrunch

Docquity was founded in 2015 so doctors and other healthcare professionals have an easier way of working with one another. It says it is the largest community of healthcare professionals in Southeast Asia, with more than 350,000 doctors on board. The new capital brings Docquity’s total raised to $57.5 million CME credits.

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Guild Education valued at $3.75 billion with newest round

TechCrunch

Guild Education, which pairs employees with employer-sponsored learning opportunities, has raised $150 million in a Series E round. But Guild CEO and co-founder Rachel Carlson, who started the company in 2015 with classmate Brittany Stich, warned that lifelong learning post-pandemic isn’t a simple goal.

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Creating agents of change in El Salvador with sustainable wearable art

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Inspired by her inclusive mission, the YLAI Network team asked her a few questions about how she advocates for and empowers members of her community and how she recommends you become an agent of change. These include single mothers, deaf-mute women, former prisoners, and women living in vulnerable communities in our country.

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Meet the man empowering young leaders by starting with their computer repairs

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

On top of his demanding work of technology repairs, Janeel has made the time to discover new ways to help others as a radio personality and program director at Dominion Radio since 2015 with his program IT Talks. Why do you think it is important to educate the community about technology? . IT is everything. government.

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50K Coalition supports Diversity in Engineering, Report shows Progress and Challenges

American Entrepreneurship

produced approximately 97,000 engineers per year at the bachelor’s degree level in 2015, roughly 34% were minorities and women. Supreme Court’s decision ending affirmative action in higher education and the denying of student loan relief. In its press statement, the organization cited that over all the U.S. of the U.S. population.

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How adaptability during a pandemic transformed this YLAI Fellow’s Honduran sustainability company

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

In 2015, she was able to merge these two passions together to create her company, Beleaf. This revealed a much larger problem in Cinthya’s community and country: “clothing is the second-most environmentally-harmful industry, right after oil,” says Cinthya. By Angie Garozzo. What’s in the future for Beleaf?