Social Entrepreneurship

What is Social Entrepreneurship? From what I understand and learned this week, social entrepreneurship focuses on serving and helping the less fortunate. The goal is to make the world a better place. In an article we read this week it mentioned that the world has had a perception of the work force: there are laborers and there are entrepreneurs. In the article it stressed the importance of understanding that we are all entrepreneurs. 

It is essential that if you get involved with social entrepreneurship that you don't focus on solving the problem, but being engaged in solving the problem. It is close to impossible to solve the problem on your own and fixing everyone's problems. If we want to make a difference in the work we'll have to engage ourselves in a good cause and take one step at a time. We learned about a couple of people that started up a hybrid company, which is a profit and social entrepreneurship company. There was a guy by the name of Blake who went to Argentina and saw that there were a lot of kids running and walking around without any shoes. He also saw a popular shoe style there that was relatively cheap. What he ended up doing was creating the shoe known as Toms which is similar to the popular Argentine shoes. Every pair of Toms shoes that were bought, another pair of Toms were donated to kids in Argentina and other kids around the world who were less fortunate. 

This type of entrepreneurship is what I'd like to eventually end up doing. I love the concept of making profit, but also donating something that is needed throughout the world to the people that need it. That is my goal in life, to make a difference in someone's life. 

At the end of class today we went over a few things. Something that was quoted really impacted me; "Living on purpose is the only way to live." We then went over self-reflecting questions like, what was I born to say? Who was I born to serve? What was I born to create? I continued writing: "Create your purpose: Start where you are with what you have. Make something of it. Never be satisfied." That was said by George Washington Carver. These statements and self-reflecting quotes gave me the motivation to starting thinking of where I'm at right now, where I'm going to end up, and what I'm going to do in order to make a difference in the world. I'll continue to have those questions in mind as I develop skills, characteristics, and Christ-like attributes.