{"id":8378,"date":"2009-11-10T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=8378"},"modified":"2009-11-10T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T05:15:06","slug":"ten-young-social-entrepreneaurs-of-pakistan-get-paragon-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2009\/11\/10\/ten-young-social-entrepreneaurs-of-pakistan-get-paragon-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten young social entrepreneaurs of Pakistan get Paragon Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"
Press Release<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Hong Kong, November 10: <\/strong>Ten young entrepreneurs from Pakistan have been selected out of\u00a0560 nomination from the region to join the annual Paragon fellowship (previously Asia Pacific Future\u00a0100) 2009.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nIncluded in the list of fellows are Gulalai Ismail (Aware Girls), Khalida Brohi (Youth and Gender Development Program), Jamil Anwer (Cultural Classics), Naveed Ahmed (Mustakbil.com), Noor Muhammad (Pamir Times & Pamir Media Services), Raheel Waqar (White Rice Communications), Rana Bilal Ahmed (Youth Alliance for Human Rights), Shamila Kiyani (Jharoka), Yasir Hussain (Alrug) and Zeeshan Shoki (PAK Education Society).<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nThe Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE) announced today 100 inspiring young\u00a0entrepreneurs and social Changemakers from 10 countries in Asia Pacific that have beenselected for the annual Paragon fellowship, a Paragon being a model of excellence for others to\u00a0aspire towards.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nAs many countries struggle to create enough jobs for young people, youth entrepreneurship has emerged as an attractive alternative to widespread unemployment, as it integrates unemployed youth into the labor market and tackles poverty through the creation of jobs.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nIn order to support young entrepreneurs who have dared to stride out, FYSE selects 100 young\u00a0entrepreneurs and social Changemakers annually for a one-year fellowship in which they benefit from regional networking, leadership development, mentorship from an extensive network of professionals and entrepreneurs, capacity building and access to finance. To inspire more young people FYSE will profile Paragon fellows widely through an extensive network of more than\u00a050 partners in Asia Pacific and multiple online channels as positive role models in order to inspire\u00a0more young people to consider entrepreneurship as a career choice. The website will not only provide young people with inspirational role models, but also provide them with information on how to take the next step towards turning their ideas into reality.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

\n\u201cWe need to provide more young successful entrepreneurs as positive role models to our youth in\u00a0order to inspire them to take actions. Many young people in Asia Pacific dream of being an\u00a0entrepreneur, but they hesitate to take action because they don\u2019t know any young entrepreneurs who\u00a0have already succeeded in doing so. The Paragon fellowship aims to change that\u201d, says Ms Andrea\u00a0Krause, Executive Director of FYSE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

\n\u201cWhile in Europe and the US young social Changemakers and\u00a0entrepreneurs are celebrated in the media and society, we need to move forward in Asia to celebrate\u00a0and support our young entrepreneurs, as they can play a tremendous role in creating jobs and in\u00a0contributing significantly to the economic and social development of our countries.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nThis year fellows represent 10 countries including India, Indonesia, China, Pakistan, Nepal and\u00a0Singapore and an astonishing 65 percent off the fellows started social ventures or NGOs. As\u00a0more and more young people want to use their education to make a difference in their society,\u00a0starting a social venture or NGO enables them to tackle challenges they are passionate about with a\u00a0business mind.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI am an entrepreneur because I saw a social need that had to be addressed immediately and I felt that I could adequately address it by taking it up institutionally\u201d, says IndianPiyush Tewari founder of the Save Life Foundation.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nEjaj Ahmad, founder of the Bangladesh Youth Leadership Centre agrees, \u201cI am an entrepreneur because I wanted to change my society and for me social entrepreneurship provided the perfect platform.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
For more Information visit: http:\/\/www.paragon100.asia\/<\/a><\/div>\n
Or open: Paragon Fellowship-Booklet<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press Release Hong Kong, November 10: Ten young entrepreneurs from Pakistan have been selected out of\u00a0560 nomination from the region to join the annual Paragon fellowship (previously Asia Pacific Future\u00a0100) 2009. Included in the list of fellows are Gulalai Ismail (Aware Girls), Khalida Brohi (Youth and Gender Development Program), Jamil Anwer (Cultural Classics), Naveed Ahmed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[4781,10,15,6,4772,397,181],"class_list":["post-8378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-gilgit-baltistan","tag-gojal","tag-gulmit","tag-hunza","tag-pakistan","tag-pamir-media-services","tag-pamir-times"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}