Social entrepreneurship is the recognition of a social problem and the uses of entrepreneurship principle to organize, create and manage a social adventure to achieve a desired social change. Lots of social enterprises are set up to help people all around the world in various aspects. One Acre Fund is one of the Forbes top 30 social enterprises, which is established by Andrew Youn. The One Acre Fund’s headquarter is located in Bungoma, Kenya. Basically, it makes low-interest loans and provides agricultural education to East African farmers so that they know how to farm more efficiently.

As we all know, Africa is facing severe food crisis. People in Africa usually spend the majority of their money on food. Even so, lots of family is not able to feed every single member, which results in the death of children. Therefore, Andrew Youn thought about setting up a social enterprise to help these people in Africa. Basically, the One Acre Fund imparts African more efficient agricultural education to help them grow more. Andrew Youn provides corn insurance and promises that they will double their profits in one season. In 2011, they’ve grown 75,000 families, and they dream of growing more than 130,000 in the future. This is an excellent organization that helps people around the world get rid of starvation. The question is how are they going to make the organization more sustainable?

URL: http://www.oneacrefund.org

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