Sotheavy AT is the winner of the Women of the Future Southeast Asian Awards 2020. She is the founder of Think Plastic, which is a social media campaign to raise awareness of people on plastic usage and environmental pollution in Cambodia. Her campaign page, Think Plastic, has more than 97,000 followers. She produced more than 80 videos on topics related to plastics and pollution. Each of Sotheavy’s videos encourages people to discuss environmental pollution caused by plastics and reaches thousands of people across Cambodia. During COVID-19, Sotheavy creates another campaign, Stay Home, to raise awareness of people on COVID-19 and to share necessary information related to COVID-19. Read her story here: https://the-nwg.com/2020/06/07/sotheavy-at/

Muygech SOK is the Principle Architect and Founding Director of BMK Architects. Muygech is the finalist of the Women of the Future Awards Southeast Asia 2020. Muygech started her own design studio based in Phnom Penh in 2016, BMK Architects after she completed her master’s degree from the UK. Her vision is to bring betterment to your life through good design. Read her story here: https://the-nwg.com/2020/07/10/muygech-sok/

Sara Rajabli is an award-winning social entrepreneur, based in Azerbaijan. She is the founder of BUTA Art & Sweets which is the first social enterprise working to promote employment opportunities for women with special needs in Azerbaijan. Sara launched the BUTA Art & Sweets with 85 Euros bootstrapping. The platform involves 20 women with special needs, having more than 40 sweet menus, and cooperates with more than 70 companies and organizations. Also, Sara is the founder of Social Business Youth Center, aiming to provide the necessary skills and tools to young people on social entrepreneurship and support young people to launch their initiatives. Within two years, the Social Business Youth Center becomes the biggest online mentorship program on social entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan, accepting more than 5500 applications and more than 3500 participants. During COVID-19, she founded the Bir Fincan Kitab in July 2020, aiming to develop critical thinking of young people through organizing book discussions, meetings with writers, sharing thoughts on books in online and offline platforms. Within two months, the Fir Fincan Kitab has 200 memberships. Sara is the winner of the Eurasian Regional Startup Awards that recognizes her leadership and contribution to promoting employment opportunities of women with special needs. She is the first young social entrepreneur to receive awards from the President of Azerbaijan and the winner Social Entrepreneurship Nomination Award by the Ministry of Economy and State Agency on SMEs. Read her story here: https://the-nwg.com/2020/09/17/sara-rajabli/