United Nations (UN), The Arc Initiative and social enterprise are three different objects, but they all have one thing in common: They are all taking the responsibilities on taking care of the society. Compare to the Arc Initiative and social enterprise, UN is much more official, and has more resources. However, even if the UN was fully funded, the society still needs the Arc and social enterprise.

First, UN takes care of people in the case of famine, natural disaster and armed conflict; whereas Arc and social enterprise take care of smaller projects. For example, Muhammad Yunus would spend time and small amount of money on saving 42 people, but UN may not even know about this. Even if the UN was fully funded, it wouldn’t have the chance to take care of every single small things happening in countries such as Ethiopia. They are working differently in the society.

Moreover, even the main purpose for UN is to maintain world peace and help people, it’s still important for people to take social responsibility. The Arc encourages students to use and improve their business skills in real-life situation and to help small businesses in countries such as Ethiopia. And being a social entrepreneur can help people to find their self-strengths.

In addition, all resources are scarce, but want is always unlimited. UN needs to decide where should it allocate its resources and who should they help. Then the Arc and the social enterprise can step up and help those UN won’t be able to help, and help to split the demand.

By looking at the reasons above, we still need the Arc and the social enterprise even if the UN was fully funded.

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