#16 Alinery Lianhlawng 🇮🇳 - Unleashing the talent of grassroots youth

<p>🇮🇳 In today’s episode, you will meet Alinery, a super inspiring social entrepreneur and Indigenous youth leader from the tribal community of Mizoram, in India.&nbsp;</p><p>She founded Rochun: Pay It Forward which aims to empower youth from grassroots India through education to realize their full potential.&nbsp;</p><br><p>📚💻 She has built 11 libraries, mentored hundreds of young people, implemented digital literacy programs and brought many international opportunities to her home State.&nbsp;</p><p>She shares with us her childhood during which she questioned everything, how she excelled at school and got a life-changing scholarship to study in Bangladesh, and why she took the path of social entrepreneurship.&nbsp;</p><p>It was such a great pleasure to discuss with Alinery, her journey is really amazing and humbling, so have a great episode!</p><br><p>🎤 “I really enjoyed school: I was always the number one! I ended up being the first one to study science, to get out of my hometown and then eventually went into one of the best universities. Reflecting on how I studied, how I grew up and then accessing a world-class education, I realized that it does not take much time for someone to have a transformation when you start providing the same resources and opportunities”.</p><br><p>❤️ <strong>TIMELINE</strong>:</p><p>7’ - Empowering youth with Rochun: Pay It Forward</p><p>15’ - Growing up in the tribal community of Mizoram, India</p><p>31’ - Questioning everything and discovering what’s beyond her hometown</p><p>39’ - Receiving a prestigious scholarship to study at the Asian University for Women</p><p>47’ - Discovering the development sector and its limits…</p><p>66’ - … and taking the social entrepreneurship path</p><p>80’ - Building Rochun’s first grassroots library and then another 10 libraries</p><p>96’ - Be proud of what you have achieved!</p><br><p>🗒️<strong> REFERENCES:</strong></p><p>-Connect with Alinery on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alinery-lianhlawng-b91a4a58" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_b