Teaching them how to fish is better than giving them fish

The United Nations was founded after the Second World War. Their propose is maintaining world peace and promoting common development. It is so hard for them to consider very little things. And we could also find that United Nations is a institution to solve problem, most of their work is to solve the problem which are hard for the local government. This feature means problems could not always been figured out completely and immediately. Unpaid is another thing which is different others. 

However, the social entrepreneurship’s aim is to give the poor an opportunity to change the quantity of their life. Give them money and teach them how to run their own business. This is the businessmen’s way. In the video we could know the Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus saw he just lent 7 dollars to the 40 people, and could make all these people to support themselves. So he made 5 billion dollars in loans all over the world to make the poor live better. Arc is the same, Sauder students have chance to help the African people run their companies. At the same time, the students and alumni could practice their skill which learned in university. Nothing could be better than practicing what they have learn in the real world and solving the real problem.

We could not always donate money because that is not a correct way to save their life. Here is an old saying in China:”Teaching them how to fish is better than giving them fish.”

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