Social Innovation Asia

In the first episode of the Social Innovation Asia podcast series, Dipendra KC talks with Michael Waitze about his experience founding and running a youth organisation in Nepal, and his role in a new masters degree program of Social Innovation and Sustainability at Thammasat University.  When Dipendra and his friends were seeking work experience as young college students, they kept being asked if they had any experience. In response, they went about building an organisation to give themselves the experience they were missing. They called Yuwa, which simply means youth in Nepali and has the objective of giving young like-minded Nepalese a chance to explore and test their ideas for social change.  It began as an organisation of five unpaid young students with no external capital and became an organisation with 10 full-time staff, 100 active members, funding of four to five hundred thousand US dollars per year while reaching out to 5,000 young Nepalese around the county on an annual basis.  Thr