Young Social Entrepreneurs 2011

www.sif.org.sg - The Young Social Entrepreneurs (YSE) programme promotes social entrepreneurship in the region and enables partnerships for good.

US-Saudi Women’s Forum on Social Entrepreneurship

I edited this project for ICF to display their combined efforts in the US-Saudi Women’s Forum on Social Entrprenuership. They partnered with the Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative as well as Babson, Wellesley and Dar Al-Hekma Colleges. The Forum was a venue to educate college aged women from the Middle East that social entrepreneurship is a viable and sustainable business model to affect positive change in the region.

Social Entrepreneurship key to Middle East’s Youth

The Vice President of Ashoka Arab World, stresses the importance of investment in the region’s education, and the ongoing and empowerment of women — and why the private sector needs to play a strong role in championing these causes.

Growing herbs for profit in Jordan

Barack Obama, the US president, launches a new effort on Monday to build business and social ties to the Muslim world. Obama hosts a two-day presidential summit on entrepreneurship that will bring together about 250 successful business and social entrepreneurs from more than 50 countries, most with large Muslim populations, fulfilling a pledge he made in his Cairo speech to the Islamic worldlast June. The aim is to bring together successful business and social entrepreneurs from different countries, venture capitalists, development bankers and other business experts to discuss ideas and share experiences with a view towards creating support networks that will help promote development in the region. However, one businesswoman in Jordan does not require a summit to make a profit. Maisoon Zaidan set up an initiative in 2006 to capitalise on Jordan’s natural resources. Al Jazeera’s Nisreen El-Shamayleh travelled to the village of Anjara to meet Zaidan and her profitable garden.