MARCOS OAP

Co-Founder AnnuitWalk

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Marcos OAP, recognized in 2017 by Forbes magazine as one of the 30 most promising young Brazilian innovators and WSYA/UN as one of the most impactful social innovators worldwide, leads innovative initiatives which foster new talents and enterprises in the digital industries in Brazil and globally, particularly in emerging markets.

Specialized in international multidisciplinary collaborations which use technology and creative practice for social and civic change. He thrives on building new partnerships across the creative & tech industries, digital fabrication & innovation labs, government & civil society, improving businesses impact and social inclusion.

Over the past 14 years, working closely with startups and some of the world's biggest companies, Marcos accumulates prizes and participations in major events worldwide such as Laureate Brazil Award, United Nations World Summit Award, Slush 100 Startups, TEDx, Tikkun Olam Make-a-Thon, CES & more. Marcos is most simply described as an enabler of pioneering ideas -helping organizations and changemakers to plot concrete steps forward in environments of high change and ambiguity. With a sleeves rolled up approach, Marcos is at his best when working alongside visionaries/devs to design & implement strategies that bring game-changing ideas to life.

With degrees in Computer Science, MBA and a wide experience with Social Innovation, Marcos also loves to be at the intersection of profit and purpose. He is a strong advocate for emerging models of"profit for purpose" business, having consulted to,mentored and advised a range of entrepreneurs & companies across Brazil and US.

A firm believer that a business only grows as fast as its people, Marcos is actively involved w/ new techs dev/consulting in several leadership development initiatives. Since 2015 he is member of the International Youth Foundation and Ambassador of WSA (hosted annually at Vienna, Austria) and spent six years as a volunteer community worker.

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HIMANSHU GOYAL

India Business Leader

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Himanshu is the India Business Leader for The Weather Company.

The Weather Company, an IBM Business, is the world's largest private weather enterprise, helping people make informed decisions – to take action – in the face of weather. The company offers the most accurate, personalized and actionable weather data and insights to millions of consumers and thousands of businesses via Weather’s API, its business solutions division, and its own digital products from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

Himanshu, an entrepreneurial leader has a track record of building and leading high impact, high performance organizations to lead in new markets and deliver growth. He has been a Co-Founder of two Start-ups, delivered and led four product launches and managed one acquisition. He has performed multiple roles for more than a decade at IBM. His previous experience includes working in organizations such as Wipro, Digite and Adobe.

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ANITA GOYAL

CEO and Trustee

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Anita Goyal is currently the CEO and trustee of The Hemraj Goyal Foundation. She is a Patron of Binti International and the Honorary Chair of the FGM Appeal for Barnardo’s. She is an award winning philanthropist and community champion. Anita completed a BSc in Biomedical Materials Science & Engineering at Queen Mary College, London. Anita’s passion for teaching led her to become a Science teacher, advancing to Head of Science and then progressing to Assistant Head Teacher of Inclusion.

Anita has completed her MA in Special and Inclusive Education at the Institute of Education and UCL. She is the Co-founder of Ultimate You where she designs educational seminars for business, leadership, life and relationships with her husband - Avnish Goyal (an award winning entrepreneur).

Under the family Foundation, Anita has launched People of the World as a platform for investing in the personal development and empowerment of all people from diverse backgrounds. She is passionate about making a difference and believes in doing everything with passion and purpose.

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CLAUDIA WINKLER

Founding Partner & Boardmember

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Founding Partner & Boardmember at goood network Holding AG| Helping impact ventures growing their ideas

Claudia is a C-Level Executive with 15+ years track record in starting-up and managing innovative telecommunication companies in eight countries in very challenging and different market environments, serving millions of new customers.

She is passionate about social impact and impact innovation, with a proven track record of transforming traditional business models for the next generation.

Claudia is Founder of goood network Holding AG and its subsidiaries goood mobile Germany & goood mobile Austria - the first and leading social impact mobile operator in the DACH& CEE region as well as co-founder of an award winning impact initiative for social inclusion.

She holds a Master of Business Adminstration from Vienna University of Economics and Business and apostgraduate degree from the University of Technology Sydney.

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Janine Teo

CEO

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Janine currently heads Solve Education!, an education technology not-for-profit with the mission of delivering quality education to everyone, focussing on the BOP (Bottom of Pyramid) demographic. As CEO, Janine is particularly passionate about leveraging technology to solve social problems in a systemic, scalable and sustainable way.

Education is the key to solve the many challenges we face in the world today, and because of this, she is an avid speaker on topics like education, edtech, gender equality and poverty alleviation. She also contributes as a board member and as a mentor of various organisations.

She is the first Asian to receive the International Intellectual Benefits to Society Award 2018 by Mensa International, and have also received recognition with Education Leader award 2017 by the World Education Congress.

Most recently, she is offered a fellowship from University of Pennsylvania - Global Social Impact House, 2019.

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Pallavi Pareek

Founder & CEO

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Founder and CEO of a gender laws advisory firm, Ungender, Pallavi is a change management specialist by education and profession. Pallavi Pareek's entrepreneurial work has its roots in the pillars of legal literacy, policy advocacy, and absolute inclusion. With her career span of over 13 years, in Asian countries, Pallavi's work has driven private entities and individual support groups to drive inclusion with legal education and facilitation. She has worked with over 200 organizations, sensitized over a hundred thousand individuals, and is being an instrumental element in getting the POSH Act, 2013 implemented through er RTI and PIL work. In addition to the same, she has been working with state governments to advise on capacity building and generate proficient literacy of the gender laws existent in India. Thousands of justice delivery facilitators such as Police officials, NGO workers, Lawyers, and social groups under government schemes have been trained on gender laws directly by her.

In 2013, Pallavi through her product CloudTrain, was the first to devise an online solution to address the complex compliance environment of implementation issues related to the Sexual harassment of Women at Workplace Laws. Pallavi is also instrumental towards the first and only professional certification on workplace diversity and sexual harassment prevention endorsed by premier law institution in India, a course which has led to the standardization of professional qualification expectation in this new field of practice. Her consultancy work has extended to working with the Delhi Government too where she worked on devising model schemes for addressing the issue of substance abuse in the state capital and also studied the employment law for People with Disability especially in the context of government offices.

Pallavi has also been a co-founder of a legal education entity, iPleaders, addressing the need of simplified legal knowledge availability for people in India. Over the past five years, Pallavi has counselled and mentored over 5,000 individuals on their need for professional legal education. Recently, for her contribution through her entrepreneurial and social activities, Pallavi was awarded the “Women of Excellence Award, 2017” by Women Economic Forum in New Delhi.

As an avid speaker, Pallavi has been invited to be part of several prestigious platforms both in India and abroad. Her views on issues pertaining to gender and gender based laws, legal literacy, diversity, governance have been invited and acknowledged by several leading offline, online, live and print media.

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Ruma Devi

President

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Comimg from an orthodox and deprived background she single handedly formed the self help group and on a very nominal budget in her fight for equality for women artisans.Became a member of Gramin vikas Evam Chetna sansthan (GVCS) and started working towards the upliftment of women in all spheres. (2008 to 2010).Elected President GVCS.2010

Since 2010:
An expert craftsmen, she has trained 20,000 artisans from 75 villages, working in the Thar region of Rajasthan. She has been a promoter for hand crafted products made by Tribal women. She has herself modeled for handcrafted apparels made by Thar women on ramp shows at the state and national level. She has been the chief initiator and motivator in making women attend training workshops conceptualized by her for better skill development. She has also designed contemporary products in furnishings and apparels to reach out to the youth of today and popularize and promote handcrafted goods at international level. As president GVCS she has brought international fashion designers to the doorsteps of Rural women artisans proving to be a direct link between the two. A role model and initiator of change she has been successful in generating continuous income for artisans and their families. Her business model in the field of innovation has won her critical acclaim at the national and international level and has helped women artisans reach out new clientele. A crusader for justice Ruma Devi today is the face of women empowerment. Her story has inspired numerous other women to stand up and question male dominance.

AWARDS:
Honor by Women on Wings Netherlands 2016, Germany & Singapore Fair 2017.
Award by Govt of Rajasthan and Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts, 2018.
Shilpa Abhimani Award by the Govt. of Srilanka. Its work has been recognized and appreciated in the British Patchwork and Quilting Magazine.
Honored by the prestigious INDIA TODAY MAGZINE as the face of its cover page for the 2018 anniversary edition.

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Manjit K. Gill

CEO and Founder

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Binti has a vision to create a world where all women have menstrual dignity.

She has amassed over 20 years of international business expertise and has been involved in 7 startups prior to Binti. It was her role as a volunteer mentor for a young lady in Kenya with the Cherie Blair Foundation that led her to start Binti where she found out that some women do not have access to sanitary products.

Her mission is to create a huge, social impact, whilst generating a sustainable organisation. To provide basic menstrual products and education for girls and women across the world. It's imperative to dispel stigmas, taboos and smashshame with periods

Manjit has been nominated and won several awards for her work at Binti including:
Gandhi Samman award at House of Lords 2017 for her contribution and dedication to worthy causes and her achievements in keeping the flag of India high.

Charity Times Awards 2017 - Highly commended for Best New Charity Femina World Women Leadership 2017 Mumabi 50 Most Impactful Social Innovators 2017 Mumbai Woman of the Year Asian Achievers Award 2016 in association with EYAWAA Social and Humanitarian award where she was highly commended in association with Nat West 2016 Lift effects top 100 star award 2016 Inspirational Top Ten Sikh woman in the UK 2016

She has also been profiled in many notable media outlets including Marie Claire, The Independent, The Metro, The Times of India, Canary Wharf magazine, The Guardian, Sunday Times, Thomson Reuters Foundation the BBC and ITV.

Manjit says her faith has led her to believe she can accomplish anything that she puts her mind to and that belief has led her to follow her passion and drive to keep going. She says maybe that is why when she found out some women do not have access to Menstrual pads it fuelled her fire to create change - because she knows that without a pad she would not have been able to have done half the things that she has done.

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MARCOS OAP

Co-Founder AnnuitWalk

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Marcos OAP, recognized in 2017 by Forbes magazine as one of the 30 most promising young Brazilian innovators and WSYA/UN as one of the most impactful social innovators worldwide, leads innovative initiatives which foster new talents and enterprises in the digital industries in Brazil and globally, particularly in emerging markets.

Specialized in international multidisciplinary collaborations which use technology and creative practice for social and civic change. He thrives on building new partnerships across the creative & tech industries, digital fabrication & innovation labs, government & civil society, improving businesses impact and social inclusion.

Over the past 14 years, working closely with startups and some of the world's biggest companies, Marcos accumulates prizes and participations in major events worldwide such as Laureate Brazil Award, United Nations World Summit Award, Slush 100 Startups, TEDx, Tikkun Olam Make-a-Thon, CES & more. Marcos is most simply described as an enabler of pioneering ideas -helping organizations and changemakers to plot concrete steps forward in environments of high change and ambiguity. With a sleeves rolled up approach, Marcos is at his best when working alongside visionaries/devs to design & implement strategies that bring game-changing ideas to life.

With degrees in Computer Science, MBA and a wide experience with Social Innovation, Marcos also loves to be at the intersection of profit and purpose. He is a strong advocate for emerging models of"profit for purpose" business, having consulted to,mentored and advised a range of entrepreneurs & companies across Brazil and US.

A firm believer that a business only grows as fast as its people, Marcos is actively involved w/ new techs dev/consulting in several leadership development initiatives. Since 2015 he is member of the International Youth Foundation and Ambassador of WSA (hosted annually at Vienna, Austria) and spent six years as a volunteer community worker.

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Dolapo Kukoyi

Partner (Detail Commercial Solicitors)

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Dolapo Kukoyi is a Partner at Detail Commercial Solicitors and leads the firm's Power Practice. She is one of the leading lawyers in Nigeria's Power sector with extensive experience advising clients in the private sector, government agencies and regulators on a wide range of complex transactions. Her transactional experience includes providing consultancy services to United Nations Development Fund/ Federal Ministry of Environment (Department of Climate Change) Nigeria in support of the completion of Green Climate Fund Concept Notes as well as a Funding Proposal for sustainable Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for project implementation in Nigeria.

She is advising the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on the 213 billion naira Intervention Fund for the Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry; and advising clients on the privatization of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) assets in the Nigerian Power sector.

Dolapo led a team working with the Nigerian Energy Support Programme and NERC on recently released regulation for mini-grids below or equal to 1MW and structuring Mini-Grid Pilot Projects in 5 states in Nigeria (Niger, Ogun, Sokoto, Cross River and Plateau) to enhance electricity supply to rural and underserved communities. She is also currently advising the Lagos State Government on the Light Up Lagos project to facilitate the delivery of 3000MW to Lagos State through embedded power generation.

Dolapo serves actively in various organizations, such as serving as an advisory board member of the Renewable Access Network (also known as the Renewable Energy Association of Nigeria; advisory committee member of Rescue Technologies Ltd; non-executive director of Arctic Infrastructure; and executive committee member of the Ebola Containment Trust Fund.

Dolapo earned her law degree from the University of Ibadan in 2001 and was admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 2004. She holds a diploma in Intellectual Property Law from the International Bar Association and College of Law of England and Wales, 2007.

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Amir Ahmad

Founder & Chief Technology Officer (Amiran Technology Sdn Bhd)

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Area of Expertise:

• Factory Automation
• Advanced Material Application
• R&D and Product Development
• Nano Wave Cavitation for Biofuel and Crystalline Energy Water
• Green Hybrid Renewable Energy: Syn-Hybrid Gas Generator (Oxy-Hydrogen), Solar Hybrid System & Amiran Gas Vehicles (AGV)
• Business Development & Negotiation.

Achievements:

• Green Project Certificate for Hydrodynamic Fuel by Nano Wave Cavitational Reactor & Hydro-Fuel Cell System by Green Technology Malaysia Corporation of Ministry of Energy, Green Technology & Water (KeTTHA) in 2012.
• "Pioneer Status" Project by Malaysia Investment Development Authority (MIDA) in 2014.
• Patent Holder for Syn-Fuel Energy Hybrid Gas Generator - MyIPO in 2015 and Paris Cooperation Treaty in 2016.
• Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovative (MOSTI) Social Innovation Project – Design & Fabrication of Hydrogen Hybrid Fishing Boat For Malacca Fishermen Community Program in 2016.

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Dr. Louise van Rhyn

CEO & Founder (Symphonia for South Africa)

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Dr Louise van Rhyn is a social entrepreneur. She believes the worlds' huge intractable problems can be solved through cross-sector collaboration and a solid understanding of complex social change. Her approach to change is shaped by 30 years of working as an Organisational Change and Leadership Development practitioner. She holds a Doctorate in Complex Social Change and has founded a few entrepreneurial organisations.

In 2008 she returned home to South Africa (after living in Europe) and started a social enterprise with a purpose to mobilise active citizenship around the significant social issues facing the country.

In 2010 she launched Partners for Possibility, an innovative leadership development process for business and school leaders. Business leaders develop their capacity to lead in a complex and unfamiliar environment by becoming a co-learning and co-action partner to a school principal. The focus of their partnership is to lead positive change in an under-resourced school.

So far more than 1,300 leaders across South Africa have benefited from the programme and they've won many national and international awards for their innovative approach to enable business leaders to make a significant contribution in education while developing their leadership skills. Leaders report that they learn more about leadership from working with a school in an under-resourced community than attending a course at a business school.

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Anthea Rossouw-Woodard

Founder & Programme Leader
The Dreamcatcher Foundation South Africa

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Founder of Dreamcatcher South Africa and ARA-UK, Anthea is an enterprise developer, stakeholder engagement practitioner and philanthropist, working on initiatives which address the impact of socio-economic and environmental challenges. Working across South Africa and the South of England, Anthea applies a pluralist approach to sustainable economic development, deliberately aspiring to impact positively and grow local society. Dreamcatcher initiatives have become synomymous with 'Out of the box' thinking and innovation to facilitate a circular economy, which includes re-imagining the use of local resources. Cor principles considered to facilitate sustainability such as inclusivity, fair access, well being, environmental impact and developing duplicable models to sustainable development, are cornerstones of projects and related activities. As a result of the profound positive changes in prospects for many people in communities involved in projects spearheaded by Anthea across South Africa, she is called the Peoples Dreamcatcher by the locals

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Margaret Hirsch

Chief Operations Officer (Hirsch's)

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Margaret and Allan Hirsch started their family run appliance business in a tiny showroom in Umhlanga Rocks Drive, Durban, in 1979 with just R900 that they had saved. Today Hirsch's has grown into a chain of mega appliance and home furnishing stores in KZN the Cape and Gauteng. At the end of 2012, the company had topped the R1 billion turnover milestone and are well on their way to achieving their second billion rand turnover. Their strength, they believe, is in their well trained staff, and customer service. Margaret, Chief Operations Executive of Hirsch's, wife, mother and grandmother is also a champion of women's empowerment, and someone who firmly believes in giving back to the community, especially to people in a less fortunate situation, having been there once herself. Having had to battle from an early age, she found that it is possible, through sheer determination and a positive attitude, to get ahead and now all Hirsch's staff members are encouraged to better themselves and are shown that by uplifting themselves they will ultimately uplift those around them.

MARGARET RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING AWARDS OVER THE LAST 5 YEARS:

• South Africa's Most Influential Woman in Business and Government in the retail and wholesale sector in 2011 - in an annual competition run by the CEO Magazine.
• Business Woman's Association of South Africa (BWASA)'s Business Woman of the Year (Entrepreneur) 2012. This competition started 34 years ago (co-incidentally when the Hirsch's opened their first branch)
• Lady ROCCI (Roodepoort Chamber of Commerce) Gold Award for Business Woman of the Year, 2012.
• In 2013 she received the Business Excellence Award from the Ekurhuleni Business Initiative and Captains of Industry Forum. The Ekurhuleni Business Initiative (EBI).
• Business Excellence Award was presented to Margaret for her positive attitude towards economic Development.
• In August 2013 at the 10th ANNUAL Top Women Awards evening – held to recognize outstanding leadership from organizations that have shaped women's roles within the private and public sector in South Africa, Hirsch's were the proud recipients of two of these awards. Best Women Empowered Community Programme and the Entrepreneur of 2013 Award which was won by Margaret.
• On September 4th Margaret received the SANLAM 2013 Life Time Achievement Award in Entrepreneurship. "This award serves as recognition for those entrepreneurs who have continually contributed towards the development and growth of South African entrepreneurship," said Nimo Naidoo, project manager of the Sanlam/Business Partners Entrepreneur of the Year competition.
• In 2014, Margaret was given the great honour of being selected to be inducted into the Global Women Leaders Hall of Fame (2014) for countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
• Nominee for Africa's Most Influential Women in Business and Government 2015
• Country Winner in Wholesale and Retail sector of CEO Global's Most Influential Women in Business & Government Award.
• Lifetime Achiever in Wholesale and Retail sector of CEO Global's Most Influential Women in Business & Government Award.
• Regional Winner in Wholesale and Retail sector of CEO Global's Most Influential Women in Business & Government Award.
• Winner of the CEO GLOBAL Award for the Most Influential Woman in the Retail and Wholesale Industry for the African Continent
• Lifetime Achievement Award for the Most Influential Woman in the Retail and Wholesale Industry for Africa - CEO Global
• Cape Chamber Awardee of the International Womens Empowerment Challenge
• Winner of the Queen Victoria Commemorative Medal by the European Business Assembly Margaret Hirsch has become a sought after motivational speaker and is a champion of women's Empowerment.
• 2016 - Margaret won the Global Inspirational Women Leadership Award and the United States Congressional Commendation Award from the Centre for Economic and Leadership Development.
• 2016 - Margaret and Allan Hirsch were finalists in the National Business Topco Awards in the customer focus category.
• 2016 - Margaret and Allan were also finalists in the Southern Africa World Entrepreneur Awards in the Master Category.
• 2017 - Voted one of the top 25 Distinguished Women in Leadership by Amazon Watch Magazine. Award presented at the African Women Leadership Summit, 2017.
• 2017 - Winner of the World Confederation of Businesses - World Cob, Bizz 2017 award. The awards are given every year to outstanding business people from more than 120 countries around the world.

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Ingrid Lena Mari Friblick

CEO (Xenofilia AB)

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Lena Friblick is a journalist and social entrepreneur from Sweden. She is the founder of Xenofilia, a socially conscious company, and the nonprofit foundation Botildenborg. During the last ten years, Lena has led the social sustainability movement in Malmö, a city in the south of Sweden, faced with deep challenges and opportunities to integrate the community through diversity, social good and sound employment. Lena has been a journalist for over 20 years, both as a reporter and an anchor. In 2017, she was honored as Role Model of the Year for diversity issues in Sweden.

Today, Sweden as compared to other countries, is still considered a wealthy and equal country. But even in a welfare state such as Sweden the gaps between rich and poor is starkly growing. Sweden is a country which has welcomed thousands of refugees, and in the city of Malmö, over 30 percent of the population is born in another country. Today Islam has become an increasingly prominent religion in the area. The goal of Lena's work is to connect people from different backgrounds, ethnicities and religion to create awareness and friendship between borders. To acknowledge the differences and blur the lines so we are seen as one humanity.

Right now she is developing Botildenborg, a unique community site in Rosengård, Malmö that has over 150 nationalities. Botildenborg, is a renovated historic house from 1886 to become Europe's leading site for social sustainability and understanding. The work will concentrate on three critical areas: creating employment, spreading knowledge and understanding about diversity and socially sustainable issues and give hope for everyone.

Activities within Xenofilia and the foundation Botildenborg:
Rosengård cooking: food creates the best connections with people and is a good starting point for discussion and friendship. At the same time, Rosengård cooking provides work opportunities to women with excellent culinary skills but without formal education. Rosengård cooking gives cooking classes, has created two books, TV-program, exhibitions and events.

Growing buddies: connects newly arrived families with established swedes through gardening. Families are given a plot of land to take care of, plant and harvest. The seeds in springtime become a flower of friendship by autumn.

City farming:Xenofilia has started the first incubator (organized support for entrepreneurs) for companies that farm on commercial land within the city. Thirty new companies have started in the last two years around Sweden. The method also provides a concept for the municipalities to help the new farmers.

Work: Xenofilia has developed a method to provide gainful employment for newly arrived refugees. Xenolfilia works directly with companies to provide training and education to both employees and the unemployed resulting in jobs for 60 % of those joining the program.

Change through stories: Featured interviews with Holocaust survivors and their families about how to start a new life after witnessing trauma. A book and film have both been a starting point for an exhibition in the Museum of Malmö and an educational program for students to discuss and prevent antisemitism and racism in school.

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