2022 A2ELP Representatives

2nd Hand World
Laos

Alouny is an enthusiastic fresh graduate passionate about the environment and community development. She is on her journey to build her social enterprise, 2nd Hand World, and aspires to raise awareness on climate issues and increase society’s engagement for sustainable communities in Lao PDR.

2nd Hand World is an online marketplace where it connects buyers, sellers, donors and communities together with 2nd hand goods. It was established to prevent damage to the landfill and air from used items that is rapidly increasing from fast consumption. Alouny believes everyone can make an impactful change to their own society with their own hands.

Sonder Social
Singapore

Suen is the co-founder of Sonder Social, a social enterprise advocating social procurement to benefit communities in Asia Pacific. She wears multiple hats, from maintaining meaningful partnerships with social enterprises to pitching client projects and managing on-ground logistics. Her vision is for corporate and shoppers to have a better appreciation for quality products made by communities that champion social outcomes, simply through Sonder Social’s service and networks of impact partners.

Suen’s love for social entrepreneurship began during her university days, when she was introduced to business models that incorporated social elements. She has since supported social entrepreneurial work at the Singapore Committee for United Nations Women, Beyond Social Services, Singapore International Foundation, and currently, SecondMuse.

Social Connect
Indonesia

Andi earned a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations focused on development. He has over four years of experience building communities across different issues in Indonesia.

Recently, he took a full-time job to create one of the growing mental health communities called Social Connect. Before founding Social Connect, Andi was a mental health survivor. Through Social Connect, Andi and his team successfully reached 3 million youth online through a self-love campaign launched during the COVID-19 outbreak. Since then, Andi has been building a safe space, forums, and virtual friends for mental health survivors like himself, with more than 50,000 members to date.

 Agro Agape and Teukdorm Pka Khmer Honey
Cambodia

I am Tan Sreypouv, married to Mr Soeun It, a beekeeper with two daughters. I’m a founder of Agro Agape and a CEO of Teukdorm Pka Khmer Co., Ltd. The purpose of my two businesses are to promote local products to create market chances for farmers in order to build agriculture development and protect biodiversity.

Teukdorm Pka Khmer Honey a beekeeping business model that combines economic development with protection of biodiversity hotspots.

Agro Agape is a whole supply chain business model that stands behind farmers to create a support system by training and developing their products to match market requirements. We want to see communities get a better income through our business and create ecosystem biodiversity.

Real Youth Initiate
Myanmar

I am an engineer and a social entrepreneur who is always eager to share knowledge, promote learning, and love working on social and educational areas. Now, I have been actively involved in addressing the learning losses for youth in Myanmar to alleviate poverty and to reduce the ‘double injustice’ and narrow down the social and economic gaps between groups in societies.

Regarding social entrepreneurship, my personal interest and passion are creating a long lasting, sustainable, scalable, and accessible education system for the youth especially for those from vulnerable households, urban and rural areas in Myanmar.

Farm Box
Philippines

Lester Mendoza is an Industrial Engineer who have worked in an FMCG company and the biggest Telecommunication company in the Philippines.

Lester came from a family of farmers and now the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Farm Box – a social enterprise that helps Philippine local farmers by gathering sponsors of boxes that contains quality farming essentials, trainings, handbooks, and other agricultural solutions.

Yuludarla Karulbo
Australia

Lisa Rapley is a pround Gumbaynggirr woman from the NSW mid north coast. She is an Advisor working on Closing the Gap at the National Indigenous Australians Agency, and the co-founder of Yuludarla Karulbo, a youth driven social enterprise empowering young Indigenous people and communities to share their stories and culture.

She is deeply interested in finding ways to empower young Indigenous people from across the world through system disruption, capacity and ecosystem building.

Lisa is passionate about using systems thinking, Indigenous knowledge systems, and co-design principles to solve wicked problems.