Year 3 Cohort (2022)

Indonesia

Industry: Youth Development

Yayasan Teman Saling Berbagi
 

Farhanah Fitria Mustari is a leader of the Yayasan Teman Saling Berbagi. She is interested in human and organizational empowerment. Fulfilling her life’s vision and mission to spread kindness to others, Farhanah stepped out of her comfort zone by establishing the organization in 2018. Farhanah always believes that Yayasan Teman Saling Berbagi is capable of encouraging every individual and community to become the best versions of themselves. 

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

Yayasan Teman Saling Berbagi, a non-profit organization focusing on the social and education fields, commits to presenting capacity-building and self-development programs for individuals and institutes. These programs include interventions such as training, mentoring, and social campaigns. 

Indonesia

Industry: Reproduction Health and Environment

Biyung Indonesia

Westiani or Ani was born and raised in Papua and is currently living in Yogyakarta. Since college, she has been actively involved in volunteerism activities, especially in the issues of environmental education and women empowerment. In 2018, Ani, together with her two daughters, initiated various social activities and a business called Biyung Indonesia. Through this movement, she aspires to empower women and keep them healthy and prosperous, while healing and preserving mother earth. 

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

Biyung Indonesia is a movement and a social enterprise engaged in women and environmental issues. Biyung chose the production and use of cloth pads as the main educational medium of awareness raising about self-care among women, environmental protection, and most importantly, women caring for fellow women. The profit from the business activities is used to run women's health education and skills training on independent cloth dressmaking for vulnerable women. Currently, Biyung Indonesia focuses on building the "Women Help Women Wear Cloth Pads”, a movement wherein cloth pads produced by Biyung-trained women are distributed to more vulnerable women in urban villages, rural and inland areas, and women with disabilities. 

Indonesia

Industry: Education

ASIK (Akselerasi Ibu Masa Kini)

As founder of Akselerasi Ibu Masa Kini or ASIK, Fatimah Azzahra completed her education in Nutrition and Food Engineering. She is currently a full-time mom and home educator after deciding to leave her previous job as a lecturer. Having graduated from the Ibu Profesional Institute, she has been really passionate about the change-making mother ecosystem. In 2020, Fatima and her team realized a problem that mothers commonly feel — the lack of confidence and self-esteem in many cases and stages of their life. Women feel less confident due to many factors strongly related to mental health. Their root-cause analysis brought her to the mission of empathetically raising awareness about the fundamental concept of womanhood and rejuvenating the main role of the mother from an advanced perspective.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

ASIK stands for Akselerasi Ibu Masa Kini, focusing on SDG numbers 4 (education) and 5 (gender equality) with the main goal of helping women to be more confident with their role in the family, increasing mom education by context and broader perspective. They spread informative content on social media and run some online classes to build a positive atmosphere to boost women's pride in their role as mothers and housewives. 
 

Indonesia

Industry: Maternal Mental Health

MotherHope Indonesia

Yana is a maternal mental health advocate, nutritionist, founder of MotherHope Indonesia, Postpartum Doula in Training, and contributing author of "Mommies, You are Not Alone" and "Panacea." Yana is a coordinator of Postpartum Support International from Indonesia and has attended several trainings focused on social support networks and Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders as a component of care. Yana also has been nominated as one of the inspirative women from The Asian Parents Indonesia in 2015 and 2021, and Facebook (Meta).

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

MotherHope Indonesia (MHI) was founded in 2015 based on the initiative of Nur Yanayirah who was a Postpartum Depression survivor. MHI aims to promote perinatal mental health literacy to enable adequate support for mothers and families affected by Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs), access to the information, and connect them to professionals while there is no mental health system integrated into perinatal care and services in Indonesia. Currently, the MHI Facebook page has more than 14.000 members and there are 30 dedicated volunteers from different educational backgrounds, including professionals in mental health to meet the goals of the MHI missions. MHI has been supported by Postpartum Support International, the  Indonesia Ministry of Health, other local communities, and the non-Government Organization (NGO) which focuses on mental health issues.
 

Indonesia

Industry: Financial Literacy

Mommenkeu Project

Lia often describes herself as a mother, wife, and family financial consultant. Since 2018 she has been helping Indonesian women improve their own financial literacy and skills to achieve strong and healthy family finances through her platform. She founded Mommenkeu as a financial education platform for Indonesian women. 

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

Mommenkeu is a financial education platform for Indonesian families which, since 2018, has helped more than 2000 women learn about financial management. We have a vision to create an economically strong Indonesian family and a mission to be a woman's best friend to learn to manage finances and increase income. By learning how to manage finances, women are expected to be wiser in using money for consumption, saving, and investing purposes. Meanwhile, by learning how to increase income, women are empowered and recognized to initiate financial decisions for themselves and their families so that they are not completely dependent on their partners or parents.

Indonesia

Industry: Arts and Culture

PERETAS

Naomi Srikandi is a writer and theatre-maker whose works include writings and performances using aesthetics as a framework for investigating the questions of how everyday life images, sounds, and languages as such retroact to politics. She co-founded a feminist organization Peretas (Perempuan Lintas Batas) to work through and toward the politics of feminist solidarity.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

The Indonesian word “peretas” means hacker, which renders our spirit to socially hack the stereotypical definition and hegemonic construction that confine women. In our collective endeavors, they navigate with an intersectional perspective to expose the plurality of women's subjectivities that cross and disrupt borders between nations, races, ethnicities, classes, sexualities, religions, and disabilities. Peretas’ programs aim at supporting the making of productive and reproductive spaces for women art workers by organizing Peretas Berkumpul (our annual assembly), research projects, book publications, and public discussions. Through these activities, they are open to engaging with the expanded notion of arts and culture, which moves towards social transformation and knowledge distribution instead of centralizing in the creative industry, productivity-driven, or individual career. 
 

Indonesia

Industry: Non Governmental Organization

Global Peace Foundation Indonesia

With over 10 years of experience working for the cause of community and youth development, Tya now leads Global Peace Foundation Indonesia as the General Manager. Tya earned her Bachelor of Business Management from Telkom Institute of Management. Having participated in volunteer activities, Tya found her passion and happiness in life by living for the greater good, living for others.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

The Global Peace Foundation Indonesia is affiliated with the Global Peace Foundation which is an international non-sectarian, non-partisan, nonprofit organization, which promotes an innovative, values-based approach to peace building, guided by the vision of One Family under God. GPF engages and organizes a global network of public and private sector partners who develop community, national, and regional peace-building models as the foundation for ethical and cohesive societies. The Global Peace Foundation Indonesia has been cooperating with more than 300 organizations, both government and non-government, to build peace, including the Ministry of Youth and Sports (Kemenpora), BNPT, UNDP Indonesia, PB Nahdlatul Ulama, PP Muhammadiyah, and so on. Our unique approach is interfaith, family and service.
 

Indonesia

Industry: Hand-woven Textile Craft

LAWE Indonesia

Adinindyah is the chairperson and co-founder of LAWE, a social enterprise whose mission is to empower women through the conservation of local traditions. She is committed to producing the goods in a manner that is environmentally sustainable and responsible. Together with Global Environment Facility – Small Grant Programme Indonesia (GEF-SGP), Adinindyah also developed the Weaving for Life programme, a movement for increasing Indonesia's women's voice through traditional hand-woven. She is also co-founder of Terasmitra, a non-government organization supporting the local community in developing their work with an ecological mission, and active as a trainer and coach in BEDO (Business and Export Development Organization) since 2014.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

 LAWE creates a transformation of traditional hand-woven fabric into functional modern products and lifts the added value to increase its competitiveness in Indonesia's global market. As a community that carries out social missions, LAWE has a focus on exploring and developing the potential skill of the people involved. LAWE perceives partnership as a form of cooperation in every aspect. Collaborating with LAWE doesn’t only mean adding or providing capital and a marketing network. The partnership was built by LAWE in the form of collaboration to share with one another, swap knowledge, and open discussions. 

Indonesia

Industry: Women Empowerment

Yayasan Komunitas Perempuan Nelayan Puspita Bahari

Masnu'ah is the founder and director of Yayasan Puspita Bahari, a non-profit organization that gathers the community to learn about gender equality and income-generating activities. She was born in Rembang, a small region in Indonesia to a fishing family. From childhood, Masnu'ah did not get the same educational opportunities as boys and experienced a series of encountering injustice against women. She understood then that women had no bargaining position and no say in their lives. 

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

Through Puspita Bahari, Masnu’ah is working to change the marginalization of women through her fisherwoman cooperative. Through the workshops, men and women are better able to understand the equal role of women as citizens in society. By involving both women and men in her approach and focusing on income-generating activities, she is confident to find a socially acceptable method to solve the issue of gender inequality.
 

Malaysia

Industry: Mental Health

Thrive Well

Graduating from London School of Economics with a BSc in Mathematics and Economics in 2010, Cindy spent seven years as an economist with the Central Bank of Malaysia before embarking on a new chapter of her life and career. A keen mindfulness facilitator and certified transformative coach, Cindy is passionate about creating a safe space for people across all walks of life to discover themselves and embrace their true potential.  

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

Thrive Well is a social enterprise with a mission to expand trauma-informed community mental health services to individuals, communities and organizations, particularly the marginalized and high-needs communities, in a sustainable manner. We provide CARE (Clinical Services, Advocacy, Research, and Community Empowerment) to the community through a comprehensive range of programs and services. Along with our partners, our goal is to make mental health services accessible to everyone.
 

Malaysia

Industry: Youth Development

myHarapan

Nurfarini Daing is co-founder and CEO at myHarapan, a foundation dedicated to developing independent and wholesome youth by empowering them with both choice and opportunities. She was previously the general manager for one and a half years before assuming her role as CEO. She has 22 years of start-up experience and also did training and coaching for small enterprises and unemployed graduates.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

myHarapan, also known as the Youth Trust Foundation, is a non-partisan, non-government and not-for-profit organization, dedicated to empowering young Malaysians by supporting youth projects and initiatives that contribute to nation-building efforts. We achieve this by providing a supportive environment for youth empowerment, developing capacity and capability, and providing sustainable funding mechanisms.
 

Philippines

Industry: People with Disabilities

Scoliosis Philippines Support Group Inc. (ScoliosisPH)

Amanda was diagnosed with scoliosis when she was 16 years old. Over the years, She suffered from debilitating chronic pains, breathing problems, and depression due to severe scoliosis, hypo kyphosis, multiple slipped discs, and degenerative spine. From her pain, she found her passion and purpose. Her advocacy all started on Facebook through the Help Fight Scoliosis group that was created for her fundraising. The Scoliosis Awareness Philippines and Scoliosis Philippines Support Group were created to raise awareness, to give Filipino scoliosis patients a safe space to share their challenges, and to provide psychosocial support.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

Scoliosis Philippines Support Group Inc. (ScoliosisPH) is a nonprofit organization that aims to attain a society where equity, social justice, and rights of scoliosis patients’ persons are served through various strategies, programs, and projects.
 

Philippines

Industry: Cooperative

Pansigedan Advocacy Cooperative

Betty has been a community-based Development Communication Specialist for 15 years. For the last eight years, she’s been practicing her profession as a consultant for various development projects implemented in indigenous communities. Throughout this process, she has come to understand what it’s like to operate in the margins — to be vigilant and assertive at all times because she herself is an indigenous person and a woman. Betty hopes to operationalize a coop that can embed in its enterprise activities social programs that champion the common good of vulnerable groups.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

The Pansigedan Advocacy Cooperative is a community of practitioners from various fields who, in the spirit of cooperativism, are committed to the principle of siged or the common good. 
 

Philippines

Industry: Media

PumaPodcast 

Ceej Tantengco is an award-winning journalist and podcaster. She is currently the Head of Partnerships and Development at PumaPodcast, the leading podcast production company in the Philippines; and host of award-winning podcasts “What’s AP? Araling Panlipunan Rebooted” and “Go Hard Girls”. Ceej believes that the stories we tell have the power to shape the world around us, and that power must be used to champion the truth amid the rise of disinformation.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

PumaPodcast is an award-winning enterprise podcast production company that's based in the Philippines, but with a global footprint. They created the first podcasts out of Asia to be archived, by invitation, in the US Library of Congress for their value to the cultural and historical record.‍ Pumapodcast specializes in audio storytelling founded on core values of good, independent journalism. ‍
 

Philippines

Industry: Events Service

Mamacademy PH

Kaye started her career as a human resource professional for seven years specializing in the areas of Learning and Organizational Development and worked for local and international telecommunications companies. In 2017, she started her passion project turned business called Mamacademy PH. She is on a mission to encourage more moms and women to make learning a lifestyle and pursue their God-given talents through learning and launching their own passion projects. 

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

Mamacademy PH is a mom, parent, and women ​learning community & events curator (online & on-ground). ​We are on a mission to ENCOURAGE, ​ENABLE, and EMPOWER women ​to pursue #LEARNINGALONGSIDEMOTHERHOOD and with other hats we wear, while ​honoring God in every season.
 

Philippines

Industry: Clean Technology

Waste4Good Technologies 

Lorie is a satellite engineer who built the brains of the first locally made 2 cube satellites in the Philippines. As an engineer and a mother,  she built Waste4Good because she wanted to build sustainable innovations for the younger generations. 

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

The Waste4Good is solving the waste problem and food insecurity caused by COVID-19 by providing W4G products to promote healthier and more sustainable food sources. The W4G pivoted from Solar-powered & Automatic Bin into Waste4Good Planting Kit with the Compost Activator Solution (CAS) to provide a solution for COVID-19 impacts while mitigating the bio-waste problem. The Planting Kit is a complete set of planting materials for urban farming. Our products will utilize biodegradable waste with the help of CAS and reduce the waste 8x smaller. Using our products, the user can produce their healthy food at home faster and easier. 
 

Philippines

Industry: Sustainable Development

ParaBukas

Salin earned her degree in Fine Arts, with a major in Advertising Arts. She is currently the Admin and External Relations Officer of Parabukas. She hopes to hone and contribute her skills and creativity in supporting people making significant changes for a more sustainable future. She loves exploring, finding fun and creative ways to approach problems, and solutions to adapt to the ever-changing.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

Parabukas is a women-led, Asia-based international consultancy focused on laws and policies related to climate change, the environment, and sustainable development. The goal is to enable and enhance the understanding of complex legal language, concepts, and processes around these issues to improve inclusiveness and participation by decision-makers and stakeholders. Ultimately, ParaBukas wants to empower those most affected by environmental degradation and associated social problems to address them practically and effectively.
 

Philippines

Industry: Art and Education

Artletics Inc. 

Alee Garibay (b.1989) is a painter, organizer and writer. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts (UPCFA) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting in 2012. Characteristic of her paintings is the amalgamation of organic landscapes, domestic scenes, portraits, chromatic non-objective abstraction, architectural structures, and a distinct gestural typeface, that express existential ruminations on the formation and/or dissolution of the self through relationships, memory, and places. 

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

Artletics Inc is a non-stock, non-profit organization that empowers young artists to transform communities through art and education. Artletics Inc’s programs are anchored on the assertion that artists can present a third option, an alternative system or platform through which they can create art and engage their audiences autonomously, untethered to the agenda of the market and cultural institutions.  

Philippines

Industry: Education and Employment

BagoSphere

Vans considers herself a natural teacher and a lifelong learner. In 2013, after working for a few years with companies in the private sector, she came across a social enterprise creating solutions to unemployment through education.  She fell in love with the mission to serve and the driving force of the people behind it to make it happen. For more than 8 years of service, Vans was able to maximize her creativity, leadership skills, and love of learning to serve her fellow Filipinos. She believes that my knowledge, skills, and gifts are tools to be maximized to address the pressing needs of society and to prepare a better world for the next generation.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

BagoSphere is on a mission to develop human skills and prepare the Philippine workforce for the future of work. BagoSphere is a mission-driven and women-led business and has trained 6,000+ youth from underserved, low-income communities in the Philippines. 
 

Singapore

Industry: People with Disabilities

Be Kind SG

Sherry's career was in teaching literacy and oral skills to children and youths with learning difficulties such as dyslexia, speech and language difficulties, and ADHD in non-profit organizations. Being diagnosed with vasculitis, an autoimmune disease, at the age of 19 years old, led her to empathize with the struggles of people with such diseases.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

In 2017, Sherry founded Be Kind SG to create and inspire a kinder and more inclusive society for persons living with invisible disabilities, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disabilities. It is a ground-up movement aiming to bring awareness to the different ways that people can contribute to making Singapore a happier and kinder place. The organization inspires acts of kindness via micro-volunteering and raises the visibility of our 'less visible' communities such as adults with special needs.
 

Thailand

Industry: Circular Economy and Community

AriAround

Born and raised in Bangkok, a city with rich cultures and diversity, Aru grew up in a Chinese-Thai family which ran a soap manufacturing business since World War II. Her life goals and aspirations are being a cause of peace and supporting sustainable human & social development as becoming reconnected, in balance, and living in harmony with nature makes people feel more alive and happy.  

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

AriAround is a platform to promote zero-waste, circular economy, and community connection, which believes that many problems in the city can be solved by the power of people. People in the community can use AriCoin to exchange for recyclables, used or forward-able belongings, skill-sharing, food from shops, etc. AriAround also co-create events and activities to support ecological awareness as well as social solidarity economy. 
 

Thailand

Industry: Human Development and Consulting

Roots Incubation Program

Pattrarat is known for being a good blend of creativity and business skills. She started her career as a business development executive, but her passion lies in designing and making the world a better place. She eventually shifted towards the path of social enterprise development and worked as a social enterprise developer for Mae Fah Luang Foundation in the North of Thailand. She is the founder of Roots Incubation Program and a lecturer at the school of entrepreneurship, Bangkok University.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

Roots Incubation Program is a program that incubates young people who either have a dream to initiate a business at home or have already started their business. To help them turn their ideas into practice, we aim to encourage and support the younger generation by providing them with intensive courses and workshops to ensure that they have the potential to establish their local business in their hometown. 

Thailand

Industry: Edtech/Parenting/Child Development

LukThamDai

Preeyasorn is a mother of two beautiful boys, interested in early child development. In her leisure time, she enjoys reading and hiking.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

LukThamDai develops AI Chatbot products and services that primarily serve babies, children up to approximately 3 years old, and their parents to promote their potential in overall development. It wants to help parents detect early signs of development issues and recommend suitable options to ensure that the children's development is not delayed.

Thailand

Industry: Gender Equality, Media and Creativity

Thaiconsent

Born in 1992, Wipaphan is originally from Chiang Mai, Thailand. Wipaphan started her first career as a media producer for social causes in 2013. She performed numerous awareness-raising projects on social-related topics for local, cross-regional and international organizations.

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

The Thaiconsent project was established in 2015. The group has devoted its time and resources to promoting gender equality and consent culture in Thailand. 

Thaiconsent activities include participation in panels, media and event production, hosting international and national conversations on gender justice, implementing educational tools, hosting workshops and seminars, etc. 

Vietnam

Industry: Education

Research and Communication Center for Sustainable Development

Nguyen Diem Anh graduated from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, specializing in Journalism. At the age of 24, she founded a startup company focusing on advertising and communication. While running the company, she found her passion for Social Marketing and obtained a master's degree in Vietnam and France in 2010. 

ABOUT HER ORGANIZATION

Research and Communication Centre for Sustainable Development is a Vietnamese Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in education, communication, and activities for children.  The organization develops educational programs that promote education and increase interactions between teachers and students. The organization built 30 schools for ethnic minority children in northern Vietnam - the poorest and most difficult regions.