Tara Chantal Hopkins | Çöp(m)adam: For the Love of Trash
- 8 years ago
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Tara Chantal Hopkins has been active in civil society since a young age and has always encouraged others to be more active in social entrepreneurship as well. Deciding she wanted to take direct action herself in addition to working through others, Hopkins combined her passion for environmentalism with her organizing experience, and created treasure out of trash in the process.
Tara Chantal Hopkins established the Ashoka Turkey program and the Civic Involvement Projects program at Sabanci University. She now runs çöp(m)adam, the Garbage Ladies, an endeavor for women who have not previously earned a salary to make useful items out of waste materials.
|TurkishWIN| Length 12:25 | Filmed in Turkey September 2011
TurkishWIN is a sisterhood network for change. We exist to inspire, support and celebrate women in their journey for self-actualization in Turkey and abroad. Learn more: http://www.turkishwin.com/
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Tara Chantal Hopkins has been active in civil society since a young age and has always encouraged others to be more active in social entrepreneurship as well. Deciding she wanted to take direct action herself in addition to working through others, Hopkins combined her passion for environmentalism with her organizing experience, and created treasure out of trash in the process.
Tara Chantal Hopkins established the Ashoka Turkey program and the Civic Involvement Projects program at Sabanci University. She now runs çöp(m)adam, the Garbage Ladies, an endeavor for women who have not previously earned a salary to make useful items out of waste materials.
|TurkishWIN| Length 12:25 | Filmed in Turkey September 2011
TurkishWIN is a sisterhood network for change. We exist to inspire, support and celebrate women in their journey for self-actualization in Turkey and abroad. Learn more: http://www.turkishwin.com/
Istanbul | Ankara | New York | Boston | San Francisco | Washington D.C. | London | Zurich
Stay inspired and up to date on news - subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook and Twitter:
https://www.facebook.com/TurkishWINners
https://twitter.com/turkishwin
https://www.youtube.com/user/turkishwin
We thank our amazing Youtube volunteers (aka İlham Komitesi) for transcribing this talk: Elgiz Bağcılar you are a rockstar! We are grateful to our translation sponsor Motaword for the translation of the TurkishWIN talks.