Ashoka Fellow Profile Summaries (3 People)
Ashoka Fellow 1: Roland Martins
Summary: Roland Martins goal was to strengthen the business of tourism in India. The revenue earned by tourism benefited the local economies. He planned to insert small service providers to help collaborate with the companies with regards to more effective business planning and professionalizing business skills. He also had the idea of giving a hand on how large-scale operations on tourism in the area and preventing policies that dangerously affect the culture and population in local areas. The local area that he focused his service providing to was Goa.
Ashoka Fellow 2: John Abraham
Summary: John Abraham noticed that most of the poor people in poverty were not putting any of the unused land for crops and farming in India. The land was owned under government title at the same time which further prevented people to cultivate there. His idea was to establish new legal rights for rural people in poverty to be able to own land to farm for their food. He believed that they should exercise those rights and depend on them. This idea put him under a little bit of political pressure. Most of his concern was in the local state of Maharashtra where his practices could be applied.
Ashoka Fellow 3: Stephan Kaspar
Summary: Stephan Kaspar has the idea to creating a “broad video literacy” in the Andean Region in order to make “Information-marginalized” citizens, educating with the use of screenplays. He has created a major Micro-cinema network within Peru and is constantly training people to join the network.
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