Lighting the Path to Rural Transformation: ASSEFA Sangamam 2025 Begins
Reflections shared by Kumar Loganathan, Director of SARC (Sarvodaya Action Research Centre) The ASSEFA Sangamam 2025 conference was held at Shanthigram village in Natham, the Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu, India from 28 Sept 2025 and 30 Sept 2025. The ceremonial lighting of the traditional lamp was done by Sri J. Chandrapaul, Chairman of ASSEFA. […]
What kind of a world we want?
A question raised & answered by Prof Yunos On Sept 22, 2025 at the UNGA side event in New York on Social Business, Youth & Technology, Prof Yunos started his speech by raising this question What kind of a world we want? What is our vision? An outstanding human being, Prof Yunos is a person […]
Social and solidarity economy: The Quebec experience and ecosystem
On September 11 and 12, 2025, Denison and Rose had the opportunity to visit Montreal and Quebec City both in Quebec province. In both these two cities the social solidarity economy (SSE) movement is very active. In Montreal we visited Chantie, a network of networks of SSE organisations and a prime mover of the social […]
Harvesting Hope in the Hills of Nepal
This article, photos and video showcases “powerful photography” and an inspiring work of Indigenous Chepang women in Makawanpur, Nepal. This write up documents “women-led solutions for inclusive forest protection”. It is a story of how women regenerating forests, food systems, and community life through ancestral wisdom and rights-based opportunities. This work is supported by NAFAN, […]
ASEC partners at the 3rd Nyeleni Global Forum
Six delegates from ASEC are among the 22 participants from RIPESS who are gathered together from September 6 to 13, 2025 in Sri Lanka Among them are Judith and Sandar from RIPESS, and from ASEC are Kumar of ASEFA of South India, Bola from Nepal, Chandra from Indonesia and from Malaysia Ms Darshini. The Nyeleni […]
Two up coming National Level events in 2025 on SDG & SSE in Malaysia & Philippines
Event One: ASEAN SDG SSE LOCAL ACTORS NATIONAL WORKSHOP (Oct 29, 2029 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) MySDG Academy is hosting a national workshop in conjunction with the series of second ASEAN meetings in Kuala Lumpur. This Oct workshop is a follow up to the earlier May 2025 event for national actors to review the ASEAN […]
Grassroot local actors moving the social economy agenda as Third sector
From community projects to mobilisation of grassroots local actors in Malaysian SDGs-SSE sector: Story of APPGM-SDG Grassroots leaders who formed the Society of Solution Providers (SP Society) and the SDG Cooperative (Kop SDG) met on 14 and 15 August 2025. These are newly legally registered organisations to ensure sustainability, increase funding sources and become more […]
Dialogue with Prof Yunos in KL
Chief Adviser of the Government of Bangladesh, Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus, was on a three-day (11-13 August 2025) official visit to Malaysia. On 13 Aug he participated in a convocation1 where he received an honorary PhD on social business. After this function there was a smaller interactive session at Zecon Hotel, Kuala Lumpur co organised […]