United Nations (UN) is committed to promote international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, civil liberties, political freedom, democracy and achieve cooperation in World Peace. It is known to provide humanitarian aid to developing countries. On the other hand, there is social enterprise which is an organization (or a project) aims to maximize human and environmental well being. Some may argue that with the existence of UN, there is no need of social enterprise. However, I believe that social enterprise and UN does not have conflict to each other.
I see United Nations as an emergency aid in a short run. As United Nation is made up with the strongest country in the world, it also means that UN can be able to access to some of the world’s strongest resources. In the others world, it is a very resourceful organization that can provide immediate aid to any country in need. However, that aid is only for short run and UN can only aid the entire country, not every individual in the country.
On the other hand, social enterprise is different organizations gathering resources to aid a specific place or area. For example, Sauder’s Arc Initative aids developing countries (Ethiopia, South Africa, Rwanda and Colombia) to maintain local economy by sharing student’s business toolkit. The program encourages local entrepreneurship and achieve economic sustainability, which UN is not able to aid the countries to do so.
All in all, I believe the social enterprise and UN’s both is trying to make the world a better place. UN is able to provide resourceful help to a nation in a short period of time. While social enterprise is able to help build a sustainable economy in a country.