Our 20 fearless iFellows made their way to the heart of creativity in Bangkok: the Bangkok University Creativity Center, to do prototyping in a suitable location. Talk about inspirational spaces! The campus is beautiful, and our team spent the day in a bright green,...
Yesterday was the second day of UNHCR’s first-ever Innovation Workshop! What did we do? The day started out with each team, in their separate groups, learning a variety of different brainstorming skills. A couple of different pieces of advice were given to the...
Yesterday was the first day of the first-ever UNHCR Innovation Workshop: an exciting day for us, and a historic day for UNHCR as an organization. The iFellows, twenty changemakers and problem solvers from around the world, have gathered in Bangkok, Thailand to...
Yunesti Handayani Associate Programme Officer Duty Station: Herat, Afghanistan “Creativity. Flexibility. Simplicity. In my view, these are the three words that best describe what innovation is. It does not necessarily mean creating something entirely new, but rather...
Samuel Gonzaga WASH Officer Duty Station: Dollo Ado, Ethiopia Samuel is a Ugandan WASH Officer currently based in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia. Over the past year, Sam worked to introduce solar-powered water pumps in one of the five camps in Dollo Ado, in partnership with...
Rebecca Kitcher Field Associate Duty Station: Takoradi, Ghana “Innovation means coming up with a new idea, or introducing a new discovery that will bring about positive change. It has to do with creativity and delving into new areas. Innovation is important to me...
