Raj Ridwan Singh

By admin on March 10, 2010 in Featured Articles, Past Speakers

As a social entrepreneur & teacher, Raj Ridwan Singh has passionately worked towards the progress of the socio-economic status of youths by empowering them with capacity- building, life skills, leadership and employment skills that positively affect the development of the community and nation on a macro-level. Raj Ridvan Singh serves as the International Director & Co-Founder of SOLS 24/7. He served as Country Director of SOLS 24/7 in East Timor. He is currently expanding his social development work as the Country Director of SOLS 24/7 Malaysia . SOLS 24/7 is committed to the holistic education and long-term development of youths throughout Southeast Asia. 26,000 youths have gone through SOLS 24/7’s training in academic, job, leadership and life-skills education. For his continuous efforts in youth education, he was awarded the YouthActionNet Award-2004 by International Youth Foundation, The Youth & ICT Award-2005 by Global Knowledge Partnership and was presented the Youth Social Enterprise Fellowship (15,000 USD) by YSEI in 2006. Raj secured USD 50,000 from a Microsoft Grant for his social enterprise in Timor-Leste (SOLS 24/7) after impressing the panel during the the Scale-up Pitching session at YSEF in 2008. He is also the winner of the KLue Blue Chilli Award Malaysia 2008

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