Entrepreneurship
Nov 16th, 2010 by monicamoran
What is an entrepreneur? An entrepreneur is basically someone who starts a business using their own resources and become significantly accountable for their own risks. Entrepreneurs start of with an idea and then try to start a business that revolves around that idea. So let me introduce you to Jeffrey Church and Michael Stone, two entrepreneurs with a goal to help impoverished communities in their world countries through selling purified water.
The two founded Nika Water in March 2009, a bottled-water company that donate most of its profit to organizations that provide people, especially less fortunate ones and who come from poor environment, clean drinking water. Last year, in fact, the sales generated from Nika Water provided relief to villages across the world such as in Kenya, Sri Lanka, and Uganda. Furthermore, they have also set up a recycling program in schools, where they provide dumpsters that collect water bottles that can be recycled.
Stone and Church believe that this entrepreneurship can help make a difference in the world, and their goals doesn’t revolve around money but through contributing to the resolutions of various global issues such as the water crisis. As Church says, “It only costs $20 to bring clean water to someone for the rest of their life.” (1)
(1) http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217454