- August 31, 2022
- Benjamin Pino
Hello America Program
Inspired by Hello Europe arrives to our region Hello America, a program whose objective is to to strengthen social innovation with a focus on mixed migration to provide more and better solutions to the challenges faced by these communities.
Ashokaan organization that has been promoting entrepreneurial culture and social innovation for more than thirty years, together with 2811 and with the support of IDB Lab (Inter-American Development Bank), UNHCR (United Nations) and the IOM (UN Migration), join this initiative to provide a local view of what is happening in the world with migrants and people on the move.
Hola América seeks to address the issue of migration from the perspective of social innovation, understanding migrants and refugees as agents of change and transformers of their own reality.
Nicolás Cipriota, Ashoka Southern Cone
Juan Pablo Lopez, Financial Operations Specialist at IDB Lab and a partner in this initiative, commented that migrants are not just statistics, but each one is a different story, and this program seeks to find projects that help them overcome the challenges of migration. and this program seeks to find projects that help them overcome the challenges of migration.
The program will be developed in different stages: the first one will be for mapping and analyzing different stakeholders and projects existing high-impactThe second stage will be the selection of proposals and the 30 selected proposals will be announced and presented at our Innovation Summit to be held in October.
For decades, Ashoka has identified and supported the world’s best social entrepreneurs: leaders with innovative new ideas that seek to improve broken systems in areas such as health, human rights, education, civic engagement, economic development and the environment.
On the other hand, 2811 is an organization in pursuit of social and ecological change. social and ecological change to promote the regenerative development of communities in harmony with the planet. Its director, Gabriela Carrasco said that “we are looking for social innovators committed to this mission, who have projects that are already working and are eager to scale and deepen their impact”.
We invite those who want to participate in the Hola América program to register on our website www.holaamerica.org and to contact us at: [email protected].
Source: Initiative launched to address challenges facing Latam’s migrant communities (Lado H)
