United Nations Headquarters. Source: CNN

“If the United Nations was fully funded why would we need the Arc or social enterprise?”

The United Nations was formed in 1945 to refrain countries to break out into World War II. Many years later, it now stands as a peacekeeping organization,  holds standards in which countries are to keep. Despite being fully funded, the United Nations will still need social entrepreneurship to invent new ways to solve problems that may not exist yet. With social entrepreneurship, they can still look for more efficient ways to operate, or having new technologies developed to create a better quality of service.

The Arc initiative is still beneficial and needed, as companies with newfound business tools and knowledge may help solve problems before they arise. If companies across Africa learn about such tools, they can solve problems within their own communities, and then go on and teach the knowledge they learned from Sauder to kids in school. Like they say, “knowledge is power” and by having such knowledge, the United Nations will benefit in the long run when there are problem solvers in Africa working with them, as simply aiding them will help, but provides no permanent solution.

“Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime”

Source: http://blogs.concernusa.org