Welcome
The Paragon program annually selects 100 young entrepreneurs and social changemakers of up to 30 years of age from Asia Pacific who are an inspiration to other young people.
On this site you can find their inspiring stories, stories from young people in Asia Pacific, who had the desire and guts to make a change and to stride out and start their own venture. Your can read about their background and their ventures, and if you also desire to get started you can find resources such as entrepreneurship courses and current business plan competition.
Get inspired by the stories of the Paragon fellows and take actions to one day become a Paragon yourself.
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Our Fellows in the News
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Kudos to 2 Paragon fellows '09 for gaining special mentions at the Make a Difference (MaD) Award
2011-02-08
Kudos to 2 Paragon fellows '09 for gaining special mentions at the Make a Difference (MaD) Award for young social Entrepreneurs: Vania Santoso for her venture AVPeduli and Manoj Vasudevan for his venture SourcePilani
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Yuva ignites Minds for the differently-abled
2011-01-26
Yuva Ignited Minds, founded by Paragon fellow Manish Sanhkla, has been profiled in DNA for organising a walkaton to benefit physically disabled.
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Kudos to Vineet Kumar: representing India at the GSEA 2010
2010-10-09
Kudos to Vineet Kumar Ranchi, our Paragon fellows 2009: The young entrepreneur and founder of the National Anti-Hacking Group (NAG) will represent India at the Global Student Entrepreneur Award (GSEA) scheduled during November 17-19. NAG is a non-profit social organization that works to reduce cyber crimes and to create awareness in the field of Cyber/Information, This achievement makes Vineet one out of only 29 student entrepreneurs from 22 countries selected for this competition organised annually by Entrepreneur's Organisation. Talking about his achievement, Vineet said: “I had never expected such an award of international repute. These awards are given to students who along with their studies also manage to run an organization or be an entrepreneur. This award will give me an opportunity to interact with the sponsors and expand my message of social awareness to avoid hacking. I also expect that lots of sponsorship will flow in to help my organisation ahead.”