Voice Over Visibility: Putting people before narrative, and care before capture

The Audacious Project is a collaborative funding initiative dedicated to supporting bold ideas with the potential to change the world. Housed at TED and powered by the belief that ideas change everything, Audacious leverages a global network of visionary social entrepreneurs and funders to support bold solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges. Audacious is issue-agnostic and supports grantees to balance audacity and achievability for lasting, systemic impact. Since 2018, Audacious has helped to catalyze more than $7 billion for 70 projects, demonstrating what’s possible when we dream bigger and act together.

Pure Earth:

Right now, one billion children globally are lead poisoned, a silent crisis that robs humanity of two million IQ points each day and takes more lives than HIV and malaria combined. Yet, lead poisoning is entirely preventable. With funding from The Audacious Project, a collaborative funding initiative catalyzing social impact on a grand scale, Pure Earth is embarking on the most ambitious global effort to combat lead poisoning in history, with an aim to protect over 500 million children in more than 20 countries by 2033.

One in 36 Million is an award-winning documentary short that follows Saim, a young boy in Bangladesh growing up in a lead-contaminated village. Produced by Pure Earth, it demonstrates how we can increase protections for people exposed to toxic lead pollution. Following the film screening, Pure Earth President Drew McCartor will lay out what it takes to end this mass poisoning, and why the time to act is now.

Tiko:

Tiko’s Audacious Idea

Across Sub-Saharan Africa, millions of adolescent girls are growing up under the shadow of a “triple threat”: unintended pregnancy, sexual violence, and HIV. Yet fewer than half are able to get the sexual and reproductive health care they need, often because of stigma, misinformation, high costs, and services that are hard to navigate. Tiko is helping change that by connecting girls to trusted peer educators, quality clinics, and the support that’s right for them — from contraception and HIV services to care after sexual violence — using simple technology and incentives that make finding quality care easier. Since 2019, Tiko has provided over 4 million girls with life-changing services. Their audacious vision is to reach 3.5 million more girls by 2030.

Speakers (3): 

• Hasiba Haq, Producer, The Audacious Project
• Drew McCartor, President and CEO, Pure Earth
• Serah Malaba, Co-CEO, Tiko