The social entrepreneur, those whose goal is to do good for the society, is a fast growing group of people. Even if a nation is ‘fully funded’, the social enterprise is needed.
First of all, there is no country that is confident to say that they have eliminated poverty, even if in highly developed countries. One of the main goals of social enterprises is eliminating poverty, and therefore can help the impoverished and being overlooked citizens. In addition to directly give out money, job training, educations, etc can be a great help since trough the government process , free job training and activities that help the poor took a long time and may not be approved.
Another important point I want to point out is that the idea of social enterprises give people more choice of what they want to do for career. From the aspect of women, such choice promotes gender equality in a way that other actions of the government could not, for example, social enterprise gives women more choice to choose to decide how to pursue career success (Lisa Samuel-St. Rose).
Work Cited:
Rose, Lisa. “Who Can Benefit from Social Entrepreneurship?” (2013). Set4change. Web. 10 Nov. 2014. <http://set4change.wordpress.com/social_entrepreneurship/who-can-benefit-from-social-entrepreneurship/>.
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