Global Changemakers

I am passionate child development and education and I believe that the education of the young in itself is a strategic way alleviating poverty.

PONCE ERNEST P. SAMANIEGO is Co‐founder and CEO of Outliers, a social enterprise that serves as outsourced business expertise for nonprofits in the Philippines. Ponce co‐founded Outliers, on his senior year at the Business Administration program of the University of the Philippines. Together with a young and dynamic team, he is driven by the mission to empower Civil Society groups through the channel that they know best: business development. By merging traditional practices of aid organizations with efficient, market‐based approaches, Outliers is effectively turning charities into sustainable social businesses. Outliers was named Philippine Winner out of 156 social businesses in the BiD Network and Citibank’s Business in Development Challenge 2010, and is supported by the Starbucks Foundation, VF (Visayan Forum Foundation), Japan Environmental Education Forum and the Global Changemakers Programme (British Council). Ponce is a Global Changemaker (British Council), Global Shaper (World Economic Forum) and a Young Challenger (Grameen Creative Lab). As a recipient of an Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia Scholarship from the European Union, he spent a semester in the International Business program of the University of Warsaw (Poland) in 2009. Serving the role of Learners' Voice, he was a speaker at the World Innovation Summit for Education 2011 (Qatar). He is also an active environmental advocate and has represented the Philippines recently in international forums such as the ASEAN Youth for Sustainable Development (Indonesia) and UNEP’s Southeast Asia Youth Environment Network and the World Youth Summit for Volunteering (Singapore).

Razan has been active in her community since high school as a peer educator, coach, and mentor. Her aspiration is to become an active global citizen, committed to social and political to live in a democratic, fair, and peaceful Middle East where every young man and woman, and every individual dare to dream to become anything they aspire to. On individual level, she wishes to contribute to her community and to herself improvement and prosperity, complete her education in pharmacy, and be able to carry on her dreams. She is most interested in developmental organisations. She is a passionate advocate for peace and women’s rights, and she's volunteer since high school. Most recently, she has launched a community action project entitled I Love English which seeks to teach English language skills by creating an inspiring environment to learn English; to overcome the (-Fear of English) in Jordan to underprivileged youth in her community by using creative ways and she represented the Youth in the World Economic Forum 2011. Razan's motto is to empower youth by showing them that anything is possible - something which she personified by leading a group of Muslim women on a bicycle tour of the Middle East.with follow the women she really feels that in everything there is an opportunity to learn and she believes as a young Muslim woman that she has a message to deliver and share with many; that young Muslim women, are no different in our aspirations and inspirations to all other young women, and in general all young people. Razan a part timer at the British Council Jordan, pharmacy student and Founder of I Love English.