Best The AVOCADO Foundation Podcasts (2025)

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#12. Feed the Streets & Shape the Future: How this Young Entrepreneur is Opening Doors with Tech & Purpose 35:47

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Send us a text What happens when you graduate university at 18 and decide to transform your community instead of waiting for opportunities to arrive? Meet Emem Udom — product manager, social entrepreneur, mentor, and author of Jar of Oil. Growing up between Lagos and Akwa Ibom, Emem shares how early education, resilience, and a drive to serve other…

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#11. Families, Not Orphanages: How This Changemaker Creates Nurturing Environments That Empower Children to Thrive 28:54

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Send us a text In this episode, we meet Praveen Gomez, a Sri Lankan community-builder and global advocate working with World Without Orphans (WWO), a movement active in 99 countries to ensure that children grow up in families rather than institutions. From his childhood during Sri Lanka’s 30-year civil war to his current role connecting churches, N…

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#10. Education as Empowerment & Empathy: How This Global Advocate Is Decolonizing Academia & Spreading Quality Teaching 36:26

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Send us a text In this episode, we meet an anthropologist, teacher trainer, and civic advocate whose mission is to ensure that education becomes a tool for equity, empathy, and empowerment. From a childhood in a Wi-Fi–less Mexican village to leading service-learning initiatives across Europe, Diana Chavez’s story reveals how privilege, sacrifice, a…

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#9. Validating Voices: Joanne Richardson-Gough on Language, Worship & Jamaica’s Global Impact 42:22

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Send us a text What does it mean when your mother tongue isn’t recognized in your own country? In this captivating conversation, Jamaican cultural advocate and ethnodoxologist Jo-Ann Richards Goffe takes us on a journey through language, identity, and spiritual expression that transcends borders. Jo-Ann introduces us to ethnodoxology—helping commun…

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#8. Stories Seldom Told: Smita Tharoor on Cultural Identity, Unconscious Bias & Listening Without Judgment 30:41

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Send us a text What happens when your cultural identity spans the breadth of an entire subcontinent? Smita Tharoor takes us on a journey from Mumbai to Kolkata, Rajasthan to Kerala—and into the heart of what it means to live, work, and connect across cultures. An expert on cultural behaviour and organisational change, Smita reframes unconscious bia…

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#7. Akwaaba to Abidjan: How Three Changemakers Are Driving Inclusion, Digital Skills & Women’s Empowerment in Côte d'Ivoire 24:19

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Send us a text In this inspiring episode, AmickyCarol visits Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, to meet three dynamic leaders transforming their communities through financial inclusion, digital skills training, and diversity initiatives. Marie-Josée Abbet shares how fintech is empowering market women to grow their businesses. Lou Vanié explains why she return…

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#6. Flourishing Across Cultures: How a Filipino-Australian Is Empowering Refugees and Championing First Nations Justice 25:39

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Send us a text In this wide-ranging conversation, Filipino-born community-development leader Marbuen Diaz joins AmickyCarol from Sydney to unpack what “flourishing” really means for newcomers, refugees and First Nations peoples. From building leadership pipelines in Burmese refugee churches to challenging Australia’s dominant systems to become cult…

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#5. Turning Loss into Life: How One Doctor's Organ-Donation Revolution Is Creating an Extraordinary Legacy 50:21

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Send us a text In this revelatory conversation, urologist-turned-activist Dr Sunil Shroff joins AmickyCarol to show how one ordinary surgeon sparked an extraordinary movement—turning India’s reputation for illegal kidney trade into a blueprint for ethical, life-saving transplants. From London’s NHS wards to Chennai’s ICUs, Shroff proves that death …

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#4. Dream Big, Stay Humble: How a Township Tech Lab and Ubuntu Mentorship Network Are Empowering South Africa’s Next Generation of Entrepreneurs 17:19

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Send us a text In a vibrant South African township, a handwritten year-book motto—“Dream Big, Stay Humble”—has grown into a nationwide movement equipping young people with the skills, mentors and mindset to build thriving futures at home rather than abroad. In this episode, social entrepreneur Khayelihle Nkabinde joins AmickyCarol on Durban’s sun-s…

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#3. Rebuilding Hope: How One Charity Survived an Earthquake to Keep Girls in Education in Morocco's Atlas Mountain 23:48

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Send us a text High in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, a simple idea — safe housing for girls who live too far from secondary school — is sparking a cultural sea-change. In this episode, Education for All board member Juanita Folmsbee joins AmickyCarol in Marrakech’s storied La Maison Arabe to reveal how boarding houses are breaking the cycle of female …

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#2. The Nonprofit Sector Under Threat: How Martha Schumacher is Fighting for Civil Society, Free Speech, and the Future of Giving 44:26

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Send us a text In this urgent and inspiring episode, nonprofit leader and fundraising powerhouse Martha Schumacher joins AmickyCarol to sound the alarm about the rapid dismantling of America’s nonprofit infrastructure—just 90 days into a new administration. From wolf restoration in Yellowstone to securing $21 million for affordable housing in DC, M…

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#1. From English Clubs to Greening Cities: How this 18-Year-Old aims to Transform Algeria through Community Development 29:16

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Send us a text In our first episode, 18-year-old Algerian changemaker, Ramy Zoghbi joins AmickyCarol to share how he's transforming his community through innovative educational and environmental initiatives despite cultural resistance and limited resources. Founder of ReoEnglishClub, a free online platform teaching practical English skills to Alger…

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Coming Soon: #WorldChangers Podcast with AmickyCarol - Subscribe Now! 1:26

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Send us a text 🌍Welcome to the #WorldChangers Podcast, where your host AmickyCarol Akiwumi MBE — social entrepreneur and founder of The AVOCADO Foundation —travels the globe uncovering stories of everyday people making a difference. From Morocco to Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire to Delhi, tune in each week to hear inspiring conversations with changemakers …

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#12. Feed the Streets & Shape the Future: How this Young Entrepreneur is Opening Doors with Tech & Purpose 35:47

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#11. Families, Not Orphanages: How This Changemaker Creates Nurturing Environments That Empower Children to Thrive 28:54

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#10. Education as Empowerment & Empathy: How This Global Advocate Is Decolonizing Academia & Spreading Quality Teaching 36:26

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#9. Validating Voices: Joanne Richardson-Gough on Language, Worship & Jamaica’s Global Impact 42:22

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#8. Stories Seldom Told: Smita Tharoor on Cultural Identity, Unconscious Bias & Listening Without Judgment 30:41

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#7. Akwaaba to Abidjan: How Three Changemakers Are Driving Inclusion, Digital Skills & Women’s Empowerment in Côte d'Ivoire 24:19

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#6. Flourishing Across Cultures: How a Filipino-Australian Is Empowering Refugees and Championing First Nations Justice 25:39

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#5. Turning Loss into Life: How One Doctor's Organ-Donation Revolution Is Creating an Extraordinary Legacy 50:21

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#4. Dream Big, Stay Humble: How a Township Tech Lab and Ubuntu Mentorship Network Are Empowering South Africa’s Next Generation of Entrepreneurs 17:19

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#3. Rebuilding Hope: How One Charity Survived an Earthquake to Keep Girls in Education in Morocco's Atlas Mountain 23:48

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#2. The Nonprofit Sector Under Threat: How Martha Schumacher is Fighting for Civil Society, Free Speech, and the Future of Giving 44:26

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#1. From English Clubs to Greening Cities: How this 18-Year-Old aims to Transform Algeria through Community Development 29:16

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Coming Soon: #WorldChangers Podcast with AmickyCarol - Subscribe Now! 1:26