Ashoka Support Network
The Ashoka Support Network is a global community of committed leaders who share, support, and advocate for Ashoka’s values and vision, while unleashing their own potential as changemakers.
The Ashoka Support Network is a global community of committed leaders who share, support, and advocate for Ashoka’s values and vision, while unleashing their own potential as changemakers.
Ashoka Support Network Global Leader
Perrine de le Court is the leader of the Ashoka Support Network and the Director of Ashoka Belgium, the largest network for social entrepreneurs. She has been living and working in several countries across South America and Africa. She brings with her 5 years of working in the private sector with Regus, and 15 years in International organizations such as UNICEF and IMBEWU. At the young age of 26, she co-founded an NGO for street children in Lagos and pursued her social and entrepreneurial involvement in Abidjan supporting children on the need to protect the environment. She currently serves on the board of Convivial, Belgium's pioneering organization for refugees. Now based in Zurich, Perrine plays a role in supporting and developing Swiss partnerships for social entrepreneurs.
Director, Venture and Fellowship
Angelika cuenta con experiencia de trabajo en diferentes organizaciones sociales y en proyectos de cooperación internacional en Argentina, Ecuador, Brasil y Alemania. Angelika estudió Economía y Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Passau en Alemania y Relaciones Internacionales en la Universidad Católica de Córdoba en Argentina. Desde el 2011 está trabajando para Ashoka y actualmente está dirigiendo Venture y Fellowship - la búsqueda y el apoyo de Emprendedores Sociales en Ashoka México y Centroamérica. La preocupación por las desigualdades que enfrentan las personas en países en desarrollo, motivaba a Angelika, que originalmente es de Alemania, a involucrarse en temas de cambio social.
Director, Ashoka Netherlands
Never before has the impact of humanity on Earth been so decisive for planetary well-being and humanity's future as now.
I believe we must now place our resources in education and specifically in growing children's skills in empathy, positive psychology, self-awareness, collaboration, leadership and creativity. Only then will children be able to recognize problems and find solutions to the increasing challenges that they will face during their lifetimes. We really need to rethink the systems we have created, becoming the new system and collaborating to act together.
I found an organization 18 years ago, focusing on vulnerable young people in prison, 'Young in Prison', where I have seen in reality how all children CAN transform. With my initiative, I was rewarded with an Ashoka fellowship and I have since fallen in love with Ashoka's mission: 'everyone a changemaker'.