Vision into Action

Blazhka Krasteva Trepetanova - Founder, Blagichka

Blazhka runs a business that supports underprivileged youths and cares for the environment by trying to generate less waste. She was a teacher in Teach For Bulgaria and inspired her students to follow their dreams. She is a zero waste follower and conducts training on zero waste philosophy for different companies and organizations in Bulgaria. Blagichka is a catering enterprise that provides jobs for teenagers coming from institutions for children without parents.

David Chak Shan Chun & Felicia Yoon - Founders, Arus Academy

Felicia has had many experiences in advocating for quality education for all and closing the skill and opportunity gap between the students who go to high need schools (low performing schools) and students from privileged schools. She has worked closely with the students in the community she was sent to in Penang to find solutions on how to inspire, motivate and push her students to reach their highest potential. Her current education initiative, Arus was set up to ensure students had a thirst for knowledge instead of A’s and students were able to see the value and application of education in their everyday life. David graduated from McGill University in Canada. During his university studies, he finds that he learn the best in his computer science classes more so than his Psychology classes. This inspired David to run a school initiative in his second year of teaching to run an after school program to equip students with coding skills. This afterschool initiative grew into a full scale social enterprise with the help of other Teach for Malaysia alumni. At its core, Arus runs programs that focus on coding and other STEM related programs for the community, students, teachers, as well as working with the Ministry of Education and other organization to create hands-on learning content.