Mueblea
Welcome Mueblea in Colombia to our South America Accelerator
One of the recipients of the Dela experimentation funding is Ahsan Rony: environmental activist and Founder of Green Savers, an association working on urban agriculture and environment in Bangladesh. Ahsan is tackling the lack and loss of greenery due to urbanization in the city of Dhaka by increasing awareness of trees – establishing 400 Green Club and Oxygen Banks in educational institutions all over the country and planting trees on over 5500 rooftops in Dhaka.
Green Savers will be using the Dela experimentation funding to pilot the Gardeners Training Academy, which supports underprivileged youth to receive training on gardening, greenery restoration and urban farming, provided by The Dhaka North City Corporation. By promoting rooftop gardening, Ahsan and his team are restoring city greenery and tackling the lack of sufficiently trained gardeners.
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Pranshu Singhal is the Founder of Karo Sambhav, India's leading Producer Responsibility Organization, which aims to bring a paradigm shift in the waste management sector by putting accountability, transparency and trust in the system.
Karo Sambhav collaborates with enterprises and enables them to close their material loops by designing and implementing transformative Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) principle programs for waste from electronics (E-waste) and plastics. After receiving the Dela experimentation funding, Pranshu and his team are able to continue developing a research project that explores the complex problem in the value chain of how to ensure that secondary materials truly become circular.
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María Almazán, CEO of Smart Green Industry, works to transform conventional textile workshops with sustainable practices used globally in textile production and consumption. María and her team create this transition through a methodology that includes working with manufacturers, workers and the environment, such as eliminating the use of pesticides and herbicides in producing countries, and reducing emissions.
The Dela experimentation funding will support the finalization of a new sustainable fashion consumption app pilot to continue changing the textile value chain – shifting from fast fashion demands towards an increase in conscious buyers.
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Silvia R. Ziller is dedicated to environmental conservation through her organization, The Horus Institute for Environmental Conservation and Development in Brazil - a national center to develop alternatives for environmental conservation in Brazil, and address the threat of invasive alien species to biodiversity and ecosystem resilience.
The Horus Institute involves a network of contributors throughout Brazil providing data and technical support for national database maintenance. The Dela experimentation funding will be used to enhance the project developed during the accelerator, which aims to create awareness of biological invasions with certified forest companies – establishing a program for controlling pine invasions in ecologically sensitive areas in the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil.
The program, led by The Horus Institute, will allow forest companies to build capacity for the restoration of priority natural areas by controlling invasive alien pines and ensuring the conservation of ecosystem services. The experimentation funding will support them in the development of a compelling communication and financial strategy to approach key forest companies and help them understand the problem of biological invasions, allowing field visits and building willingness to work with the Horus Institute.
The Horus Institute working to counter the threat of invasive alien species to biodiversity and ecosystem in Brazil and Latin America.
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Ashoka and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship have created a global accelerator to offer space to scale social initiatives. During the first two editions of the Dela Program, 204 selected experts from the global social and corporate innovation sector (including IKEA co-workers and associates from companies such as Microsoft) provided 24 leading social entrepreneurs with support in developing an impact scaling strategy, testing its elements in practice. In addition to the strategic work, the program enabled financial support, networking and offered other opportunities for participating social entrepreneurs selected from the Ashoka Network.