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23-Year-Old Audrey Cheng Has Set Up A Computer Coding School In Africa

The Moringa School in Kenya has already produced 110 graduates with a 95 per cent employment rate. At age 11, the inveterately precocious Audrey Cheng had already begun trading stocks – so it perhaps...

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Inside the Middle East’s first self-defence studio for women

It’s founder, Lina Khalifeh, has already received a shout-out from President Barrack Obama and Emma Watson. “The government has not been supportive at all, and it’s funny because I was even praised my...

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Are refugees good for the economy?

Oxford professor Alexander Betts presents a radical idea wherein he shows how refugees can result in an economic boon for host countries. In 2015, when Angela Merkel triumphantly declared “Wir schaffen...

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After Aleppo’s fall

GC spoke to Karam Foundation co-founder Lina Sergie Attar who is equipping Syrians with the tools required to excel professionally and rebuild their country. Watching as optimistic protests calling for...

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A bold vision

Dr Andrew Bastawrous is working towards eradicating preventable blindness in some of the world’s poorest places – using his smartphone. Until age 12, Ted Talk fellow Andrew Bastawrous was an...

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Addiction in the frame

The glasses designer to the stars, Sheila Vance, tells how she turned a personal tragedy into a mission to help drug addicts She is renowned for accessorising the faces of Hollywood’s biggest stars....

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Banking on the unbanked

Social start-up NOW Money is getting millions of low-income migrant workers into the banking system from the periphery British entrepreneurs Ian Dillon and Katharine Budd will give La La Land a harsh...

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Lionheart

Indian billionaire Analjit Singh’s investments in South Africa’s Franschhoek wine region are a marriage of his business philosophy and love of the good life A few years ago, few in the flourishing...

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Fostering future leaders

Meet the dynamo with five degrees who has transformed the lives of thousands with her leadership training — and she’s only 38 Sallyann Della Casa is the founder of the Growing Leaders Foundation but...

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Restoring the beautiful country

Italian entrepreneur Daniele Kihlgren is on a mission to save Italy’s medieval ghost towns with authentic restorations  It is no secret that Italy is a cultural superpower. From the days of the Grand...

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