Champions Of Change
Refugee athletes want more people to compete at the Paris Olympics
The first time Perina Lokure Nakang began to run for sport, she ran 9 miles (14 kilometers) along the road near her refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. Now, the 21-year-old South Sudanese runner is competing in the Paris Olympics, among many of the 37 athletes on the Olympic refugee team who are pushing to see more refugees like her able to compete in the Games. I told myself if I continue running this, it is going to change my life, she said. In the Olympics, everyone is looking to me to represent them. They are getting support from former refugee Olympians and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, who told The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that the team is a symbol of inclusion, of equality, of achievement for a large community around the world of refugees and displaced people." The Olympic refugee team was born at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, a collaboration between the International Olympic Committee and UNHCR, with just 10 athletes from four ...
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PM Narendra Modi calls start-ups to join in governance
In the quest for new ideas to reignite its flagship campaigns such as Digital India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his entire cabinet, senior bureaucracy, on Thursday looked for help from 212 startup founders, in a rebooted version of last year's Start-Up India Stand Up India. In a 50 minute long speech at the 'Champions Of Change' event, organised by Niti Aayog, Modi charted out his plans for the startup ecosystem in India as well as, asked young entrepreneurs for more active partnership in governance. A far cry from last year January's Start-Up India Stand Up India, when everyone from SoftBank Group's Masayoshi Son, Uber's Travis Kalanick, WeWork co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann were invited for an event with a thousand plus guest list, 'Champions Of Change' was a more pointed, subdued and mission oriented event, startup founders said.Letting go of the frills, pomp and show, government officials said that starting from the cabinet ministers, senior bureaucrats, all had lengthy ...
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