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Changemakers is an Ashoka initiative connecting insights of Ashoka's social entrepreneurs with the best work in the citizen sector.

Collaborative
Competitions

Innovation awards of up to US$5,000 for the three winners,
chosen from finalists by voting of this online community

Announcing the Winners and Finalists!
Changemakers in partnership with Habitat for Humanity presents

the finalists in the "How to Provide Affordable Housing" Competition:

The winners:

(India)		Building dignity through sustainable habitat development
(France)		The Nubian Vault : Mud roofs for the Sahel
(India)		Affordable housing through community-led, women-managed acti ...

The finalists:

(India) Slum Networking - Transforming Settlements from Within

(United States) First Step Housing for At Risk Single Adults

(United States) Manufactured Housing Park Program

(India) Slums – A bane, boon or a big business

(Pakistan) Incremental Developmental Housing for low income groups

(Kyrgyzstan) Cane-reed housing technology with cheap heating system for t ...

(India) Mass Housing after Disaster as if People Mattered

(Philippines) CentroMigrante: A self-sustaining housing model for migrant ...

(Sri Lanka) Bringing the Capital Market Home to the People

(Pakistan) Building community capacity for delivery of construction adv ...

. . . view all 86 competition entries

Slum Residents - Becoming
Architects of their Own Fate
They celebrate the demolition of their
homes because they are helping
design and build new communities

Learn how they are doing it

Read the latest idea review
discussion posts:

LOW COST HOUSING
Sep 28: THATCHINAMOORTHY.C,
GOOD

Framework: "How to Provide
Affordable Housing"

View the mosaic of innovative
solutions

About the competition: assessment
criteria and guidelines

Changemakers Library: Best Internet
Resources for Creating a World with
Housing for All

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Who are the competition judges?

Are You a
Changemaker?

Tell us how you are making innovative, lasting change in your community and be chosen "Changemaker of the Month."

View and comment on the
64 Changemaker Entries
from 26 countries

The Current Changemakers of the Month:


Female Entre- preneurs	Education for Nation Building	Right to End Poverty

Of Special Note:

Anousheh Ansari recently became the world's first female private space traveler.

She flew to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket on Sept. 18. Ansari is an entrepreneur who invests time and money in Ashoka to build its capacity and work with social entrepreneurs in the region around Iran, including the Middle East and Central Asia, and she works online via Changemakers.net.

Past Competitions:
• How to Improve Health for All
• Meeting Disaster - How to Prepare and Respond
• How to Create Market-Based Strategies that Benefit Low-Income Communities
• How to Build a More Ethical Society
• How to End Human Trafficking
• How to Build a Citizen Base that Supports an Organization
• Future Competitions