Citizenship 2Social Entrepreneurship

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Social Entrepreneur

Definition: A social entrepreneur is someone who recognises a social problem and uses

entrepreneurial principals to organise, create and manage a venture to make a social change.

Examples of Social

Entrepreneur1. John Wood

Founder of Room to Read• Literacy issue in developing countries

•  Q4 2014, Room to Read established over 1,850 schools and 16,800 libraries, distributed 14 million books,

Poverty cycle

Local Social Enterpreneur

Have you heard of a guy called:Benny Se Teo?

Social Enterprise 18Chefs

Social issue: Unemployment for ex convictsEntrepreneur Principals : Started a restaurant with good

business models and hired ex convicts

More on: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30077649

Why learn about this?

• Aware of social issues around the world

• Social issues in developed and undeveloped countries are different.

• You can play an active role in it.