Global X interviews Skoll Entrepreneurs

Victor "Global X" d'Allant
Former Executive Director, Social Edge

Global X is at the Skoll World Forum, and he is interviewing the crème de la crème of social entrepreneurship. His pick so far:

- Ann Cotton (CAMFED), who is convinced that the world in 10 years will be a world "where every human being will be born from a well-educated woman."

- Bart Weetjens (Apopo), who trains rats to find mines in the minefields of Mozambique and to detect TB in humans

- Joe Madiath (Gram Vikas), who at age 11 tried to unionize the workers who were employed by his very own father. Within two months, he was in boarding school!

- Martin Burt (Fundación Paraguaya), who is convinced that if you treat poor people with dignity, they will get out of poverty

- Martin Fisher (Kickstart), who says that "the number one need of a poor person anywhere in the world is to have a way to make more money. It’s not about education, heath care, or clean water, because if you find the way to make more money, you can afford to buy all these things."

- Mechai Viravaidya (PDA), for his piece of advice to young social entrepreneurs: "Young man, young woman, go out and change the world! The world is yours!"

- Sebastien Marot (Friends), because he thought he would saty in Cambodia for only a few days, but after what he saw as he was leaving a Phnom Penh restaurant on his very first night, he decided to stay. That was 12 years ago!

- Matt Flannery (Kiva), because of the way he describes how he made the decision to quit his Silicon Valley job and work full time for Kiva

- Premal Shah (Kiva), because he gives three wonderful pieces of advice to fellow emerging social entrepreneurs.