Ashoka: For two years. Before that I was an office manager in India.

做了两年了。做那份工作之前，在印度，我是办公室经理。

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Ashoka is a group for social entrepreneurs, people who look for creative solutions to social problems.

阿育王是为社会企业家成立的组织，他们为社会问题寻求创意性解决方案。

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"Business and the citizen sector are two operating sectors and they really need to come together," says Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka, the social entrepreneurship organisation.

社会企业家组织ashoka创始人比尔·德雷顿(Bill Drayton)表示：“商业与公民领域是两个运营领域，它们确实需要结合起来。”

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"Ashoka then provides those teams of young people with advisors, monetary seed funding, as well as non-monetary support to transform their idea into action."

VOA: special.2011.03.02

You can find email addresses for Ashoka's different area offices at ashoka.org/contact.

VOA: special.2011.03.02

Written by Felix Oldenburg, who leads Ashoka in Germany and co-leads Ashoka in Europe.

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