Global Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2014

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T hroughout the last 15 years, we have remained true to the compass that guides us—our mission to make quality higher

education accessible and affordable so our students can pursue their dreams. We have created the world’s most significant education network and have built virtual bridges that connect our institutions, students and faculty to each other as well as to best practices and world-class services.

This book provides a snapshot of the work Laureate’s students, graduates and faculty are leading around the globe. We will introduce you to Daniel Uribe, a Universidad Latina de Costa Rica biology student who heads a nongovernmental organization that is saving Costa Rica’s forests. You will meet Jeff Lubsen, a Walden University student who is leading an innovative medical effort in the United States. You will meet Thembile Ndlovu, a graduate student at Monash South Africa who has created an initiative to empower the young women in her country.

These are the stories of people who are building powerful solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing their countries, and the world. The people in this book represent the best attributes of Laureate’s network and are a fraction of our more than 850,000 students, and our tens of thousands of faculty, who embody the spirit of our commitment at Laureate to be “Here For Good.”

I am so proud to share these stories with you, and I’m excited to watch these people’s stars continue to rise.

Douglas L. BeckerChairman and Chief Executive Officer, Laureate Education, Inc.

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International Youth FoundationLaureate has invested more than USD $10 million in the Interna-tional Youth Foundation’s flagship program, YouthActionNet. YouthActionNet programs are based at Laureate institutions in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Turkey. In 2014, Universidad Tecnológica de México and Centro Universitário do Norte launched programs to support the next generation of social entrepreneurs. Each year, 20 outstanding young social entrepreneurs from around the world are named Laureate Global Fellows. The programs have impacted an estimated 1.4 million people. These young entrepreneurs have the potential to become top business and government leaders in their countries.

Scholarships and DiscountsIn 2013, across Laureate’s global network, more than USD $554 million in scholarships and tuition discounts were distributed to students based on academic performance, financial need, or other criteria. Additionally, Laureate offers many unique global scholarships, such as the Todd Benson Scholarship for Leadership in Business and Management, which provides 100 percent tuition and fees for excep-tional undergraduate students with the potential to become business leaders. The James McGuire Business Plan Competition provides mentoring and financial support for Laureate’s student entrepreneurs. The David A. Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning provides Laureate faculty with grants for education research.

Sylvan/Laureate FoundationSince 1997, the Sylvan/Laureate Foundation has invested over USD $20 million in more than 100 nonprofit organizations that promote education, youth leadership, global citizenship, economic opportunity and the arts around the world.

Global Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives

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COunTRIES STuDEnTS

900 1.4MYOUNG SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS TRAINED BY THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION, WITH SYLvAN/LAUREATE FOUNDATION SUPPORT

PEOPLE IMPACTED BY YOUTHACTIONNET PROGRAMS GLOBALLY

$554M+SCHOLaRSHIpS anD DISCOunTS DISTRIbuTED GLObaLLY

850K+

75+

*All financials are in USD

270K+People received free or inexpensive health care at Laureate’s university-based clinics

50K+People received free or inexpensive legal services at Laureate’s university-based clinics

155K+Students enrolled in Laureate’s health sciences programs

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Kanika Sood, a pearl academy graduate, is one of India’s

leading social entrepreneurs.

Clinton Global Initiative/Richard W. Riley ScholarsAt the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Hong Kong, Laureate committed to create the Richard W. Riley Scholarship, honoring a former U.S. education secretary. Fourteen Laureate institutions have awarded 1,000 full scholarships worth about USD $10 million to teachers to earn a graduate degree in education, leadership or technology. This CGI commitment has been fulfilled.

b LabMany Laureate institutions have been rigorously assessed by B Lab, an independent, U.S.-based nonprofit organization that measures a company’s commitment to transparent corporate governance, a healthy work environment, inclusion and sustainability.

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One Million Stories

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Daniel Uribe COSTA RICA

Maurício GalvãoBRAZIL

Mayk Ferreira & Lanny Uchoa

BRAZIL

Kanika SoodINDIA

Felipe HerreraCHILE

Thembile NdlovuSOUTH AFRICA

Ambreen Naveed Haq

PAKISTAN

Mauricio Gilbonio& Ana Loayza

PERU

Ghita TajeddineMOROCCO

Alessandro ManziITALY

Aida RealMEXICO

Jeff Lubsen USA

Heidy Quah MALAYSIA

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One afternoon in 2008, Uribe and a friend, Max Tattenbach, sat on Playa Hermosa—which means “beautiful beach”—on Costa Rica’s central Pacific shore. There was no shade, because there were hardly any trees. That observation led Tattenbach to create Costas verdes (“green coasts”), a nongovernmental organization committed to restoring the forests along Costa Rica’s shores. Uribe quickly joined the initiative as U. Latina’s representative, and the team drafted a business plan. Within a year, Uribe had become Costas verdes’ president, and the organization was asking government officials for permits to plant trees on beaches.

Costas verdes has grown quickly. It has organized more than 2,500 volunteers at 20 schools across the country to plant more than 10,000 trees—all native to Costa Rica. Many of the students are from U. Latina, which requires students to perform 150 hours

of volunteer work. The organization also encourages elementary school students—and even tourists—to help plant trees. “We’re creating conservationists,” Uribe says. Costas verdes now has six employees and has partnered with the national government and private businesses to expand the program to plant native trees throughout the country.

Uribe is among those young leaders who believe it is possible to improve society and make money. That’s why he was chosen as a fellow of Premio Yo Creo, a program for Costa Rican social entrepreneurs that is based at U. Latina and managed by the International Youth Foundation, with support from the Sylvan/Laureate Foundation. To sustain Costas verdes’ work, Uribe is thinking about how to build partnerships with hotels and other private businesses that increasingly value social responsibility and conservation projects. “Our goal,” he says, “is to make Costa Rica understand that our forests must be saved.”

Daniel Uribe expects to graduate in 2015. There’s every reason to believe he will play a significant role in restoring his country’s forests—and be a model for how to grow Latin America’s base of social entrepreneurs.

C an Costa Rica’s forests be saved?That may seem like a strange question, since Costa Rica

has about 5 percent of the world’s biodiversity and a multibillion-dollar ecotourism industry. But the truth is, before World War II an estimated 75 percent of Costa Rica’s land was covered with lush forests, often along the sea. Since then, however, the national government aggressively promoted the farming of coffee, sugarcane, palm oil and cattle. As a result, by the 1980s, cattle pastures accounted for more than half of Costa Rica’s land, contributing to what some experts call “one of the most

expansive and damaging environmental disasters recorded in modern history.”

Daniel Uribe, 28, is on a crusade to reverse that process. His father, a photographer who used the country’s forests as a backdrop, taught his son one fundamental lesson: “When you cut down a tree, a negative reaction unfolds.” Coastal forests help control erosion and protect inland communities from storm surges. That lesson is partly what led Uribe to Universidad Latina de Costa Rica (U. Latina), the country’s largest private university. The university’s biology department’s mission is to develop leaders for the emerging environmental sustainability field.

The Savior ofCosta Rica’s ForestsDaniel uribeUniversidad Latina de Costa Rica

“Our goal is to make Costa Rica understand that our forests must be saved.”DANIEL URIBE, SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR

UNIvERSIDAD LATINA DE COSTA RICA

The country’s largest private university

28K+Universidad Latina de Costa Rica students

12M+Costa Rica’s acres of rain forests

5%Costa Rica’s share of the world’s biodiversity

Costa Rica

Daniel uribe is working to save Costa Rica’s forests.

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a mbreen Haq was born to challenge Pakistan’s status quo. After her father, a military major, died in the East Pakistan War of 1971, Haq’s mother was forced to leave a comfortable

housewife’s life. She became a bank employee and joined the first generation of Pakistani women to work in large numbers. Haq recalls growing up listening to her mother strategizing about “how to em-power women—and how to get them on their feet.”

Now, Haq is working to support a new generation of Pakistani women. For nearly two decades, Haq, a 43-year-old mother of three, has operated an obstetrics and gynecology practice in the heart of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. Last year, she began studying online for a master’s degree in public health at the University of Liverpool, driven by one big idea: “To improve health conditions in my country, we need a change in behavior and society,” she says.

Shortly after starting her courses, Haq learned about the Swat Relief Initiative, an organization committed to improving conditions in the rural northwest corner of Pakistan. The Swat valley’s economy and cultural life withered under the Taliban’s rule. Girls were banned from schools. And, in 2012, a Swat valley teenager named Mala Yousafazi

was shot in the head while defending the right of girls to attend school. It was an act that pushed the plight of Pakistan’s girls and women onto the world’s con-sciousness. After that incident, Haq emailed the Swat Relief Initiative’s administrators with a plan that echoed one of the central arguments in her dissertation: In South Asia, maternal mortality can be reduced only through education, prenatal care and economic empowerment. Soon, Haq was planning her first trip to the Swat valley.

Haq ignored friends’ warnings about Swat valley’s dangers. In July 2013, she boarded a bus in Islamabad, carrying boxes of medications and nutritional supplements for pregnant women. She also brought machines to test patients’ blood and oxygen. Five hours later, she arrived in the Swat valley. The hospital, she recalls, was dirty and lined with

The Champion of pakistan’s Women

ambreen naveed HaqUniversity of Liverpool

UNIvERSITY OF LIvERPOOL

One of Europe’s largest providers of graduate-level online degree programs

10K+University of Liverpool online students, representing 160 nations

MEMBER OF THE RUSSELL GROUP

which is composed of the United Kingdom’s top 24 universities

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patients. Many patients were anemic. Some were ready to deliver their 12th child. “They were in the worst possible shape,” Haq recalls. There was no electricity, so she pressed the adminis-trators to find a generator to power her machines.

One day, a pharmaceutical company’s representative took her on a tour of nearby villages. Many villagers scoffed at her suggestion that they use contraception. “This isn’t just religious—it’s a cultural issue, too,” Haq says. Female doctors confessed they hadn’t been taught to use medical equipment, in part because they couldn’t leave their families to travel to Islamabad for training. “I’ll teach you,” Haq told them. She met with tribal chiefs to explain how women’s health is crucial to their tribes’ futures. “That was a break-through moment.”

Now, back at her base in Islamabad, Haq holds three-hour Skype sessions each week with Swat valley’s “lady health workers” on ultrasound procedures, breast-feeding and prenatal and postnatal care. Every two months, she visits Swat to deliver live workshops. With the guidance of scholars and tribal and religious

leaders, Haq is developing a manual that deals with domestic violence and adoption, and explains that certain forms of contraception are not at odds with the Quran. She is helping plan a Swat Relief Learning Center, where democratic principles will be taught to men—and women. But she also is plotting a more ambitious goal: replicating the Swat Relief Initiative’s model to improve health care for all Pakistani women.

“I’ve achieved inner peace,” Haq says. “This is about more than health. This is about building a community—breaking the cycle of intolerance, enabling people to hold themselves accountable.” Great move-ments often start with one person’s bold vision. Ambreen Haq is a powerful example of how one woman’s work will have an enduring impact on her country’s future.

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ambreen Haq treats a patient in Islamabad, pakistan.

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7.2MWorld Health Organization’s estimated shortage of doctors, nurses and other health professionals

“To improve health conditions in my country,

we need a change in behavior and society.”

AMBREEN HAQ, DOCTOR

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C an fashion help integrate immigrants into European society?

That’s the big question tackled by Project Re-Stitch, an initiative cofounded by Alessandro Manzi, a fashion design professor at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano (NABA). Manzi, 30 years old, is a designer with deep fashion industry roots. His work has been featured in Italian vogue, and international magazines.

In recent years, globalization has sent much of the fashion industry’s production to Asia and Latin America. But Milan remains an industry hub, especially for top fashion houses like Prada and versace. The truth is, few Italians are interested in fashion’s traditional craft jobs, such as embroidery. And few of Milan’s immigrants are trained for those jobs. Manzi has closely watched the last decade’s economic crisis unfold in Europe. Even well-educated immigrants are being forced to undersell themselves by working as babysitters. Manzi recalls thinking, “What can we do to nurture

their talent—and find satisfactory employment?”

One potential solution came in 2013. That’s when Manzi and two colleagues created Project Re-Stitch. Several times a week, more than two dozen women—from El Salvador, Morocco, Ukraine and other countries—meet at an immigrant center in the heart of Milan. Manzi guides them through rigorous embroidery and sewing lessons—“providing all the skills you need to work in contemporary fashion companies,” he says. Manzi and his cofounders have convinced fashion houses like Maliparmi, an Italian brand known for colorful fabric, to donate excess cotton, wool and silk for Project Re-Stitch’s women to weave into scarves and bags. The products are sold across Milan, and the women share the profit.

Manzi hopes NABA students will soon join Project Re-Stitch, and that the initiative will move into its own, larger studio, so that he can increase the production volume. This will allow Project Re-Stitch to hire more women as full-time

employees, paid by the hour. Ultimately, the women of Project Re-Stitch will receive entrée into Milan’s fashion industry—and prove that, with the right training, immigrants can produce high-quality products, too. “The goal,” Manzi says, “is to make immigrants feel like Italians. But the first step is to give them the skills to have many possibilities to work here.”

The barrier breakeralessandro ManziNuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano

NUOvA ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI MILANO

Italy’s largest private fine arts academy

2K+Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano students, representing 74 nations

40%Italy’s youth unemployment rate

75M+People employed by the global fashion industry

USD $1.7 Trillion+Estimated size of the global fashion industry

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Peru

The Socialarchitects

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How do you build a sustainable community in remote Andean villages? That’s the big question raised by Project Puno, an initiative created by Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas graduates ana Loayza and Mauricio Gilbonio. If Project Puno succeeds, many lives will be saved.ana Loayza and Mauricio Gilbonio

Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas

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Mauricio Gilbonio meets with residents of progreso, a village in peru’s puno province.

nearly every winter in Peru’s Puno region, high in the Andes, heavy snow, winds and sub-zero

temperatures leave thousands of people who live in one-bedroom mud huts sick with pneumonia, hypothermia and other ailments. Many people die. The harsh conditions decimate the region’s cattle supply—and threaten villagers’ financial stability. Predictably, members of Peru’s news media flock to the crisis, driving a painful national conversation, prompting relief agencies to deliver blankets, food and medicine to a region with few hospitals. None of this, however, seriously confronts the fundamental problems of residents, many of whom are descendants of the Incas.

Enter Ana Loayza and Mauricio Gilbonio. They met several years ago as architecture students at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), an institution created in the 1990s to expand university access to the country’s growing middle class. Loayza, the daughter of a police officer and secretary, is the first person in her family to attend university. At UPC, she interned in the studios of Peru’s best-known architects. A 2011 trip to a Dubai conference for social entrepreneurs led to an epiphany. “I’d been trained to get a job,” Loayza, 24 years old, recalls. But after the

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conference, she says, “I had the confidence to create my own job—and impact people’s lives.”

Around the same time, Loayza and Gilbonio were considering how to build architecture careers. Historically, many of Peru’s talented architects made a living designing projects for wealthy people. There were relatively few opportunities to work on government-funded social development projects, such as housing for the poor. These factors led Loayza, Gilbonio and two friends to create PER, an architecture studio that focuses on sustainable, socially responsible projects.

Every winter, the country’s attention turned to Puno. Dozens of children die, and many adults are too sick to work. The high altitude, and persistent exposure to ultraviolent rays, pose serious challenges for residents, and volunteers from organizations such as the Peruvian Red Cross. “We all woke up, and realized we couldn’t sit idly by and not do anything about it,” Loayza says. They wrestled with a key question: how could architecture resolve some of the persistent challenges in the rural Andean communities—and improve productivity?

The result was Project Puno, an initiative that combines several disciplines—architecture, environmental sustainability, financial education and history—to boldly rethink what a community can be. Loayza, Gilbonio and their team had never been to Puno, and knew very little about the region beyond news coverage of the annual crisis. Nevertheless, their team began drafting plans for Project Puno, and raising money. By the fall of 2013, they were in Sunimarca, a village of barely 100 people.

T o get to Sunimarca, you fly from Lima to Juliaca, near Lake Titicaca, one of South America’s largest

lakes. Then you drive nearly two hours north, past lush fields and valleys, about 12,500 feet above sea level. Families have tended the land for generations, raising cows, llamas and alpacas, and growing Andean corn and quinoa. In a good year, prosperous families are lucky to earn about USD $1,250, says Pedro Bautista, coordinator of the Rural Education Institute. “As you can see,” Bautista says one recent afternoon, scanning the adobe homes, “it’s not much.”

Officials of the Rural Education Institute introduced the Project Puno team to Sunimarca residents. Loayza and Gilbonio then spent several days building homes with the villagers. The homes cost about USD $1,000 each and are made of traditional adobe brick, which helps contain heat. Greenhouses were attached to the living quarters, providing heat—and space for residents to grow fresh fruits and vegetables year-round. This has helped improve diets once based mainly on meat and cereal. Tiny vents prevent carbon monoxide from seeping between the greenhouses and living quarters at night. The new homes are equipped with showers—the first in Sunimarca—and water is heated by solar power. Nearby villagers are now clamoring for showers—and for Project Puno’s help.

On a recent afternoon, Dionisio Huayta, a 31-year-old father of four, surveyed his home, onto which the Project Puno team had added a green-painted shower and greenhouse. “Not many women would come to a place like this,” Huayta said, watching Loayza play with his oldest daughter, Fiorella, 11 years old. His daughter sees Loayza as a role

model. The walls of the Huayta home are lined with Fiorella’s academic awards. Huayta, an electrician with a high school education, knows that it would be easier for his children to study in a home with heat. But his dreams remain strong. “I want my daughter to go to university,” he says, “and I want her to come back to Sunimarca—and make our lives better.”

In the fall of 2014, Loayza will become a Laureate Global Fellow, one of a class of emerging social entrepreneurs from

around the world. The fellows are trained by the International Youth Foundation, with support from the Sylvan/Laureate Foundation. The fellowship will give Loayza the insights and contacts to grow Project Puno—and, ultimately, improve the lives of many Peruvians.

In the meantime, Loayza and Gilbonio are balancing the demands of Project Puno with PER, and planning new projects. They have no regrets about eschewing a traditional office job. “I work on my own dreams, my own ideas,” says Gilbonio, 26 years old. “We’re making our dreams come true—and changing lives.”

UNIvERSIDAD PERUANA DE CIENCIAS APLICADAS

One of Peru’s leading private scientific research universities

33K+UPC students

17K+Architecture students at Laureate universities globally

58%Children in Puno, Peru, who live in extreme poverty

Public Health

In the United States and much of the West, this would seem to be a time of great progress for gay, lesbian, bisexual

and transgender people. And yet, few medical professionals explicitly address health issues that disproportionately affect LGBT people.

Enter Jeff Lubsen. He grew up in the rural U.S. state of Iowa in the 1980s—the start of the HIv/AIDS epidemic. When Lubsen told a doctor he was gay, the physician responded, “You’ll live a life of disease and loneliness.”

“It made me feel bad for being who I was,” says Lubsen, 43. During the next two decades, Lubsen built a successful career in television journalism. By 2008, however, Lubsen was contemplating his next act. That led him to Walden Univer-sity, where he is studying for a doctoral degree to be a mental health counselor,

with a focus on gay people. The online courses gave Lubsen the flexibility to move with his partner’s medical career.

During Lubsen’s internships, he heard a recurring narrative from patients: Many therapists barely acknowledged their patients’ sexual identity. So, in 2011, he created the Therapists Guild of Kansas City, a group of LGBT-friendly mental health care providers. Two years later, Lubsen moved with his partner to Denver and helped create the Healthcare Guild, an online network of medical profession-als committed to serving the LGBT community. The guild has challenged discriminatory policies in health care systems, including restrictions on same-sex partners’ hospital visitation rights. Through its website, the guild has connected hundreds of people with gay-friendly health care providers.

The need for the guild’s work was made clear in a 2011 report by the Institute of Medicine, a U.S.-based nonpartisan research center. The report highlighted evidence that LGBT people suffer higher rates of depression and anxiety than the general population and use alcohol and tobacco at higher rates, too. Evidence also suggests that LGBT people face higher risks of certain cancers and heart disease. Research in Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, has attributed some of the disparities to the stress of discrimination and to medical professionals’ lack of awareness about how to work with LGBT people. But there are signs of progress: In 2013, the U.S. government’s National Institutes of Health announced a plan to expand research on health issues facing sexual minorities.

Jeff Lubsen and the Healthcare Guild are taking another important step. They’re planning to push medical schools to train students on LGBT issues. Ultimately, Lubsen wants the Healthcare Guild to be unnecessary. “Hopefully,” he says, “someday prejudice toward sexual and gender minorities will no longer be a factor in health care.”

The Inclusive HealerJeff LubsenWalden University

WALDEN UNIvERSITY

One of the world’s leading online higher education institutions

50K+Walden University students globally

80%Walden students who are older than 30

85%Walden students who are pursuing master’s or doctoral degrees

LGBT PEOPLE HAvE 1.5 TIMES HIGHER RISK

of depression and anxiety than the general population

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India

The Conscious Entrepreneur

K anika Sood, 26 years old, grew up in a small town deep in India’s Himalayas. Her father runs a

family store, and her mother is a house-wife. Sood says she was taught that the proper role for young women was to get married early and find a nice job. Sood ignored that message. By 18, she had moved to New Delhi to attend Pearl Academy. This was where she developed interests in making handicrafts and pashmina shawls. It’s also where she noticed that artists rarely received fair prices at local markets.

The impulse for many young, college-educated Indians is to get an office job at one of the new companies setting up shop across the country. Sood took a different route. She opened a bank account—with hardly any money—and studied YouTube for guidance on how to build a free website.

Kanika SoodPearl Academy

She launched the NIEv Foundation (Needful Initiatives for Environment), which provides venues for rural Indian residents—particularly women—to sell handicrafts at fair prices. NIEv also promotes organic farming and ecotourism, and so far has reached nearly 150 Himala-yan villages. Sood set a goal to have one client within six months. But within six

days, she’d been hired to travel to 40 schools to distribute notebooks and other supplies. She began conducting workshops on social responsibility. Soon, she was advising multinational companies like Pepsi on social responsibility initiatives across India. One of Sood’s initiatives is to create

“NIEv environment clubs” at schools across India, potentially reaching 3 million students. Sood recently delivered a powerful TEDx talk on sustainable development.

Sood is on the frontlines of several key shifts. In a 2012 Gallup poll, nearly half of the 5,000 Indian adults surveyed said the government was a significant barrier to launching a business. Neverthe-less, there are signs of progress: India’s president has declared this the “decade of innovation,” and proposed a $1 billion innovation fund to create solutions for the country’s food, energy and water security challenges. Sood has become an evange-list for social entrepreneurship. “I want to make a profit by doing good,” she says.

Kanika Sood is giving a powerful voice to a rising generation of Indians. She is also showing us all that it’s possible to make money while doing good for society.

“I want to make a profit by doing good.”

KANIKA SOOD, SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR

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2.5K+Pearl Academy students

PEARL ACADEMY

One of India’s leading private fashion and design institutions

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Brazil

In Brazil’s major cities, organ trans-plants have been widely available for barely two decades. And for a variety

of reasons, organ recipients have been isolated to society’s margins, rarely able to reenter the workforce and fully partici-pate in their country’s emergence as Latin America’s economic powerhouse. Maurício Galvão, a medical professor at Universi-dade Potiguar (UnP), is working to change that.

In 2012, Galvão created PROTrans-plante in partnership with Instituto do Bem (Institute of Good), a health-focused foundation in Natal, Brazil. PROTrans-plante uses UnP students from several academic disciplines—physical therapy, psychology, nutrition and law—to provide comprehensive care for transplant patients. For example, psychology students assess patients’ mental health. Healthcare students help develop a

patient “life plan,” including a diet and fitness regimen. Physical therapy stu-dents help patients regain mobility. And UnP’s legal clinics advise patients about how to receive government assistance. The goal is to improve patients’ quality of life—and, ultimately, reintegrate into society. Galvão, 37 years old, estimates that PROTransplante has already helped more than 100 patients.

Brazil now has one of the world’s most regulated organ transplant systems. Organ transplants from deceased donors are increasing, but donations from the living remain relatively rare. In parts of Brazil—as in other emerging countries—there are deep cultural and religious taboos about organ transplants. Cost is another factor. So is the relatively small number of trained medical professionals, even in large cities like Natal. To raise awareness about transplants, PROTrans-plante and Instituto do Bem have launched a campaign called “I’m a Donor.” As Brazil becomes a mostly middle-class country, organ transplants will become more common. Maurício Galvão’s PROTransplante will be a model for the comprehensive treatment of transplant recipients.

The Transplant advocateMaurício GalvãoUniversidade Potiguar

UNIvERSIDADE POTIGUAR

One of Northeast Brazil’s health sciences education leaders

34K+UnP students

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aida Real’s life has been a story of constant reinvention. Like many young Mexicans, Real began

working immediately after high school. She landed jobs producing television programs and as an advertising agency’s business manager. After several years, she founded an advertising firm, with major clients such as Grupo Modelo, the Mexican purveyor of the beer Corona, and Televisa, the leading Mexican media company. In just a few short years Real learned much about the business. And yet, the 31-year-old recalls, “I realized I

needed to get more knowledge about how to manage new products and new businesses.”

One day, she noticed a Universidad del valle de México (UvM) advertise-ment for a new business administration program for working professionals. Real quickly registered for the program. She worked during the day and attended class at night. In 2009, she received a bach-elor’s degree in business administration.

By then, she had started volunteer-ing with Sembradores Urbanos, a nongovernmental organization that

promotes farming in the heart of Mexico City. Her first assignment was simple: working in the small greenhouse of Huerto Romita, a garden in Mexico City. Despite her lack of formal education in urban agriculture, Real quickly expanded her duties. She became Huerto Romita’s project manager, and the following year created Colmena Educativa, a social enterprise to boost the number of Mexico City schools with farms. She has expanded the program to seven schools and 33 childcare facilities across Mexico City. Officials at several schools have sought her team’s guidance on how to convert fields littered with trash, rocks and piles of soil into gardens verdant with green beans, kale, pumpkins and tomatoes. Schools regularly use veg-etables and fruits from the gardens. Real and about 30 volunteers rotate between the gardens, monitoring their develop-ment and teaching new urban agricul-ture techniques.

Huerto Romita and Colmena are now Real’s full-time job—and private individu-als are clamoring to pay her team of eight employees to develop sustainable gardens at their homes.

Barely five years ago, people called Real a “hippie” and said: “You don’t farm in the city.” Urban farming is certainly unusual in much of Latin America and the developing world’s booming cities. But increasingly in Mexico City, “people see farming as not only fashionable—but a way of living,” Real observes. Now, Aida Real is moving onto her next big challenge: expanding the urban farming movement into less affluent neighborhoods.

The Food Visionaryaida RealUniversidad del valle de México

Mexico

“People see farming as not only fashionable—

but a way of living.”AIDA REAL, URBAN FARMER

UNIvERSIDAD DEL vALLE DE MéXICO

The country’s largest private university

123K+Universidad del valle de México students

RECOGNIZED AMONG MEXICO’S TOP 10 UNIvERSITIES

for nine consecutive years

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Brazil

Uchoa helped start a “Bike Angel” school that quickly attracted more than 300 people. By the summer of 2013, she brought Pedala Manaus to UniNorte as a social responsibility initiative for students.

Enter Mayk Silva Ferreira. The son of a police officer and a housewife, Ferreira graduated from high school and then spent one year in Brazil’s Army. He returned to Manaus with dreams of becoming the first person in his family to attend university. So he registered for business administration courses at UniNorte. He worked from 8 a.m. until early afternoon and went to class from 6 to 10 p.m. During the first year, he says, it was difficult to adjust to the academic regimen.

When Ferreira joined Pedala Manaus in the summer of 2013, he was 20 years old and very shy, and he didn’t even own a bicycle. Uchoa and Pedala Manaus’s small group of volunteers assigned Ferreira to lead a research

project: stand on a downtown Manaus street corner for 12 hours, and count the bicycles that passed. He counted more than 1,100. In the following weeks, his duties expanded.

That fall, nearly 120 UniNorte students and other Pedala Manaus members prepared to meet with city officials. The goal was to convince the government to pave bicycle lanes. Ferreira was chosen to be Pedala Manaus’s lead speaker. He was nervous. City officials argued that Manaus had too few cyclists to justify the expense of special lanes. Still, Ferreira considered the meeting a victory and went home that night thinking, “I’m going to change my city—for the better.”

What does it take to popularize bicycling in Brazil, a country where owning a car—or multiple vehicles—is a middle-class status symbol? That’s the big question tackled by

Lanny Uchoa, a business professor at Centro Universitário do Norte (UniNorte) and her student, Mayk Silva Ferreira.

The story begins nearly three years ago, when it was rare to see bicyclists in Manaus, capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state. Uchoa joined Pedala Manaus, which at the time was a fledgling group of volunteers committed to promoting cycling as a way to boost physical activity among the city’s residents—and, ultimately, spur serious conversa-tions about urban planning. That’s no small feat in Manaus, a teeming city of nearly 2 million people turned into a regional hub by rubber barons. There has been virtually no urban planning in Manaus—as is true for many of the booming cities of Latin America and the develop-ing world. Public transportation is chaotic. Traffic is often unbearable. “It was almost impossible to bike here,” recalls Uchoa, 40 years old. Cycling is often dangerous because there is little protection from vehicles. “People thought I was crazy.”

The urban CyclistsLanny uchoa and Mayk FerreiraCentro Universitário do Norte

“I’m going to change my city—for the better.”

MAYK FERREIRA, URBAN CYCLIST

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One of the largest higher education institutions in Manaus

31.5K+Centro Universitário do Norte students

Food business: Cooking Into prosperity

S ince 2008, Gastromotiva has been based in the test kitchens of Laureate’s Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, in São Paulo. Gastromotiva teaches impoverished young Brazilians about

confectionary, eco-gastronomy, food hygiene, business, and citizenship. These skills are crucial for successfully working in Brazil’s growing culinary arts industry—and, ultimately helping build a prosperous, stable society. So far, more than 400 people have graduated from Gastromotiva, which receives support from several companies, foundations and private individuals.

Weeks later, during the city elec-tions, several candidates pledged to pave at least 20 kilometers of bicycle lanes each year. But so far, there’s been little action. Pedala Manaus’s members have not given up. Ferreira and Uchoa are teaching about 1,000 elementary school teachers about the positive health effects of bicycling—hoping the message will spread to their students. “We’ll go around government officials by planting seeds in the minds of youth,” Uchoa says. “We’re creating a movement.” In certain Manaus neighborhoods, busi-nesses are voluntarily adding parking stations for bicycles. Pedala Manaus now has more than 4,000 members. There are now 40 other cycling groups across the city. Someday, Manaus will

join other Latin American cities that are embracing cycling as one potential solution to traffic congestion. The governments of Mexico City and Buenos Aires, for example, are promoting downtown bicycle-rental stations. Bogota and Santiago are paving hun-dreds of miles of bicycle lanes—with concrete barriers to protect cyclists from drivers unaccustomed to sharing roads.

Pedala Manaus will play a powerful role in that shift. Mayk Ferreira has been invited to international conferences to explain the initial impact of Pedala Manaus’s work. His friends, and Lanny Uchoa, are marveling at his rapid growth. “He came to us just a shy little guy,” Uchoa says, “and now, he’s a great leader.”

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H eidy Quah, a 19-year-old business student at INTI International University, near Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia, is a natural leader. In June 2012, Quah learned the Chin Children’s Educa-tion Center in Kuala Lumpur was set to lose United Nations funding, which could force the school’s closing. The school primarily serves young refugees from Myanmar—the source of 92 percent of Malaysia’s refugees—but also migrants from Afghanistan and Somalia. Because of their refugee status and lack of English—one of Malaysia’s primary languages—the youngsters cannot attend many traditional schools. And, of course, without an education, many of these youths would be trapped in the margins of Malaysian society.

So, Quah quickly assembled a group of fellow volunteer teachers to help save the school. Already, her group, Refuge for the Refugees, has raised nearly USD $15,000. The school is thriving: Its enrollment has soared to about 130 from 50. About three days a week, Quah and her group teach English at the school. The group’s work has

been profiled in Malaysian newspapers such as The Star and The Sun Daily, and in early 2014, Quah was a featured speaker at the World Corporate Social Responsibil-ity Conference, in Mumbai. Quah says she is driven by one goal—“to encourage a generation of Malaysian youth that they can make a difference in the lives of people around them.” Certainly, Heidy Quah is leading by example.

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Heidy QuahINTI International University

Malaysia

Future Laureate LeadersFour students whose new initiatives are positioned to thrive in the coming years

Global Citizenship

F rom 8 a.m. until noon several days a week, Ghita Tajeddine volunteers as a physical therapist trainee at a

Casablanca hospital. Then, Tajedinne, 21 years old, goes to Université Internatio-nale de Casablanca (UIC) to study physical therapy.

She’s among the first generation of Moroccans to attend university in large numbers. “College is already having a positive impact on Moroccan life and

economy,” Tajeddine says, “and it will help us improve our country in the long term.”

As president of the university’s student office of social and humanitarian affairs, Tajeddine has created and led important initiatives. In October, she led more than a dozen students on a trip to deliver books, toys, food and medical supplies to children in a mountain village more than 300 miles from Casablanca. The following month, she led a co-ed conference on HIv/AIDS that included videos and HIv-positive panelists. “I wanted to shock people,” she says. “We’re a Muslim country. But the truth is, people have sex, so we have to talk about what it means.”

Soon, Tajeddine will study physical therapy in Spain and return to UIC to finish her master’s degree in early 2016. Ultimately, she wants to open a physical therapy clinic for poor people. Ghita Tajeddine fully realizes this remarkable moment in her country’s history and is preparing herself to be a key driver of Morocco’s progress.

Ghita TajeddineUniversité Internationale de Casablanca

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In March 2014, Thembile Ndlovu joined Laureate’s inaugural class of Here For Good Ambassadors to the

Clinton Global Initiative University, a conference of more than 1,000 young leaders committed to social progress in their countries. Ndlovu, 21 years old, is creating Authentic Chicks Talk, or ACT, a project to promote education and reduce poverty among young South African women.

She was born in Durban, South Africa, the daughter of a social worker and a teacher, and moved to Johannes-burg to attend Monash South Africa. She helped lead Monash’s community engagement and social inclusion programs, particularly on literacy and youth development. In 2013, she received a scholarship from Monash University’s Seeking Justice program to study reconciliation in South Africa and Rwanda, and was a finalist for the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship, which supports emerging leaders in education and leadership. This March, she received a bachelor’s degree in social sciences

from Monash. She recently began graduate studies in Monash’s honors program in international studies, with a focus on human development.

Ndlovu is in the early stages of developing ACT. The program will convene nearly 50 young women from some of South Africa’s most impover-ished communities for monthly sessions at local high schools. The women will have a platform to air their opinions on health, personal relationships and career aspirations—and, ultimately, break cultural barriers. In nearly every way, Thembile Ndlovu embodies what it means to do work that will be Here For Good.

Thembile ndlovuMonash South Africa

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While studying physical therapy at Universidad viña del Mar, in Chile’s valparaiso

region, Felipe Herrera, 28 years old, discovered two key things. First, there’s no shortage of sports programs for Chile’s disabled youth during the week. Second, disabled young people have very few options on weekends.

So Herrera and several friends created Sports Unlimited, a group that each weekend brings dozens of disabled youth together to play soccer, volleyball, tennis and other sports in the Pacific coastal city. In October 2013, Sports Unlimited led a nearly seven-hour, 1.2-mile mountain hike. At the top of the

mountain, a 16-year-old boy took off his shoes and prosthesis—and shouted with joy. The moment confirmed some key beliefs for Herrera: “There are no real disabilities, and we can all participate in society—if given the opportunity.”

He wants to expand Sports Unlim-ited across Chile, in partnership with business and philanthropic organiza-tions. But in the meantime, Herrera faces a key academic challenge: finishing a 10-month physical therapy internship and graduating in 2015. Felipe Herrera will, then, have all the ingredients to drive enduring progress for Chile’s disabled youth—and, certainly, the rest of his country.

Felipe HerreraUniversidad viña del Mar

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Every day in communities around the world, Laureate students, graduates and faculty are driving social and economic progress. We are preparing the next generation of physicians, nurses, teachers, architects and good citizens. We are developing innovators—and entrepreneurs. Our diverse community is driven by one profound goal: to make the world a better place. When Laureate students and graduates succeed, our society prospers. This is why we are Here For Good.

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