Organization: Belterra Agroflorestas Headquarters: Brazil Impact Region: Latin America Sector: Regenerative agroforestry SDGs: 1, 8, 13 and 15Organization: Avanti Fellows Headquarters: India Impact Region: Asia Sector: Education SDGs: 4 and 10 Organization: ANA Care Headquarters: Mexico Impact Region: Latin America Sector: Elderly care SDGs: 3, 5 and 8Organization: CareMessage Headquarters: USA Impact Region: North America Sector: Digital communications for healthcare SDGs: 1, 3 and 10 Organization: NaTakallam Headquarters: Lebanon Impact Region: Middle East and North Africa Sector: Migration and entrepreneurship development SDGs: 8, 10 and 17Ortega is Founder and Executive Director of Belterra Agrofloresta, which restores degraded land through agroforestry. Its partnerships offer 10-20 years’ leases to ensure a sustainable transition in land use, providing technical assistance, access to capital and market access. It replaces monoculture, deforestation and livestock farming with the combined cultivation of forests and products such as cocoa, cassava and açaí, impacting 40,000 hectares in six states in Brazil. Born into a farming family, Ortega earned a degree in geography, specialized in environmental conservation and then worked in government. Since 2017, he has worked in research and applied solutions for regenerative models.Saxena co-founded Avanti Fellows in 2010 with the mission of providing equitable access to India’s top STEM colleges. Avanti runs India’s largest free test-preparation programme, reaching over 55,000 students. Nearly 70% of its students pursue technical education and 18% place in India’s top 5% STEM colleges. Saxena graduated from IIT Bombay in 2006 with a degree in Chemical Engineering, and went on to win the IIT Bombay Young Alumni Achiever Award in 2023. He was part of the founding team of HeartFlow, a medical diagnostics company that raised over $600 million from top venture funds. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow and an Echoing Green Fellow. Rosemberg is Co-Founder and CEO of ANA Care, an AI-driven management platform that assists the caregivers of the elderly. It currently operates in Mexico City and aims to expand nationally. Its concept of “extended circle of care” promotes coordinated family care rather than the services of one caregiver. Rosemberg is a serial entrepreneur interested in leveraging technologies for social impact. He founded Paz Mental, the project that won the MAPFRE Foundation Award for Social Innovation in 2021 in the health and digital technology category. He was selected for the Norrsken Accelerator 2022.Singal is Co-Founder and CEO of CareMessage, which uses mobile tech to boost healthcare access. He co-founded CareMessage in 2012 after facing health issues and volunteering at safety-net clinics as a pre-med student. He also led a campaign to register 115,000 bone-marrow donors from under-represented communities. Singal graduated with distinction from Stanford, having served as a student representative on the Stanford Board of Trustees and receiving the President’s Call to Service Award. An Echoing Green Fellow, a DRK Foundation Fellow and a Y Combinator alumnus, he won the Hitachi Foundation’s Young Entrepreneurs Award and the Wharton Business School’s Beacon Awards on Leadership. Sara is Co-Founder and CEO of NaTakallam. With a background in journalism and human rights, she is working to disrupt the typical thinking about humanitarian aid and to leverage the digital economy to promote sustainable solutions to major crises such as forced migration. In 2015, affected by the plight of over 1 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon and her desire to speak Arabic, Sara founded NaTakallam to hire refugees as online tutors. She is a Cartier Women’s Initiative Fellow and a Halcyon Fellow. Named Woman Entrepreneur of the Year at the Elle Impact Awards, she won the World Bank Youth Summit Competition in 2016 and the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge (Asia).Valmir Gabriel OrtegaAkshay Saxena Manuel RosembergVineet Singal Aline Sara Credit: CareMessage, USA Schwab Foundation 2025 Awardees and Impact Report 15 Schwab Foundation 2025 Awardees and Impact Report 14

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