Re: If the United Nations was fully funded why would we need the Arc or social enterprise?
Could we say that if the United Nations have enough funds means all the alliance countries are fully funded? It is easy to get a negative answer because there is a gap of wealth exists generally, especially between western developed countries and the third world countries like Libya. In those undeveloped areas, people are still struggling with poverty and disease, moreover, there is usually a conflict between high unemployment rate and commodity shortage. Although the United Nations tried to help the undeveloped countries as much as possible like providing them with financial aids, it is still difficult to solve these problems thoroughly.
However, An increasing number of entrepreneurs begin to realize that a better way to ameliorate their life is to help them find out a way transferring the disadvantage to superiority, which is also a good idea to create profits for both the operations themselves and the poverty people. These entrepreneurs hire “vulnerable people”(mostly are rural women and disabled person with survival problems), teaching them with certain skills and provide them a chance to make money and to improve their living standards.
An interesting thing should be noticed that these aiding programs like ARC in Sauder, UBC, can be usually found involving with regional culture and traditional crafts which are rarely known all over the world. Therefore, we can believe that it is also a good way to maintain traditional culture and help them to communicate with the whole world.
Materials from: http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Global_Reach/ARC_Initiative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-growth/day-to-day/can-fair-trade-boutique-expand-without-alienating-customers/article4405520/
pictures from: https://www.google.ca/search?q=arc+initiative&rlz=1C1CHWL_zh-CNCA609CA609&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=621&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=mDVgVPmtNMXzoASq5YLYCg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ