Sahayog Micro Finance Limited
Mauritania is helping its tens of thousands of urban poor by creating job opportunities where there once were none. A microfinance program is giving small loans to inner city residents to start small businesses, most of them run by women…. For more information, please visit: World Bank in Africa go.worldbank.org World Bank in Mauritania go.worldbank.org
The last in the series of four social entrepreneur online dialogues hosted by i-genius in collaboration with the British Council and CISCO took place this week Wednesday 16th of March 2011 a day after i-genius arrived back from China. The series has been highly innovative, evocative and inspiring through which we’ve seen partnerships and friendships established, as well as social entrepreneur advancements and cross-cultural developments.
A panel of three microfinance experts discussed Large Scale Change in Action: Microfinance in the Balance at the 2011 Skoll World Forum opening plenary. We are living in a “backlash of over-promise,” said Alvaro Rodriguez (Compartamos Banco). Moderator, Jonathan Lewis (Microcredit Enterprises) pointed out the elephant in the room: do you have to trade off profit for social impact? The answer from Roshaneh Zafar (Kashf Foundation) was “it’s not about numbers but about lives.”
Ms Azeeza Jalaludeen, Co-Founder of SHINE(Self-Help International Network Enterprise) and Dr Ramesh Nambair Hon. PhD. , Founder of SHINE, share on social entrepreneurship and SHINE Empowered for Life share on the event. www.malaysiasocialpage.com -FREE Directory – First of its kind – socially inclined to connect NGOs, Social Entrepreneurs, Individuals/ Volunteers, Charities and Corporates, through online/offline activities www.empoweredforlifes.com SHINE Empowered for Life Malaysia, raise funds for Social Entreprenuerial Development in Malaysia
International Social Entrepreneurship is taugh by Prof. Todd A. Watkins and Prof. Bruce Moon and is cross listed as both an Entrepreneruship and International Relations course as ENTP / IR 307. The course teaches student to take on the Entrepreneurial problem of attracting resources and constructing an organization for the solving social issues that affect developing nations. Prof. Watkins is the Director of the Baker Institute at Lehigh University and a faculty member in the Economics Department of the PC Rossin College of Business.