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    No Fake Drugs, More Jobs For Youth, End Child Sexual Abuse Online: A Vision For 2030

    The 5 recipients of the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship predict how their projects will make the world a better place.
    by Marc Silver Apr 15, 2019 5 minutes
    Trying to make the world a better place: (left to right) Skoll Award winners Gregory Rockson of mPharma, Nicola Galombik and Maryana Iskander of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, Nancy Lublin of Crisis Text Line, Bright Simons of mPedigree and Julie Cordua of Thorn.

    Welcome to 2030!

    We asked some social entrepreneurs – people who've created projects to make the world a better place – to predict what they hope to accomplish in the not-too-distant future.

    They are tackling a range of daunting issues: child sexual abuse on the internet, youth unemployment, mental health crises, counterfeit drugs, lack of access to medicine. Some of them have founded nonprofit groups, others are hoping to make a profit as they do good. To get up and running, they've relied on a mix of government money, donations, grants, fees from companies that buy in.

    And this year they're each getting a $1.5 million investment in their work as the recipients of the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship, presented at the Skoll Foundation's World Forum this week in Oxford, England.

    Here's a look at what they've accomplished so far – and what their hopes

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