Reclaiming the Future, Empowering Communities, Restoring Dignity and the Environment, and Transforming Lives.
These are just some of the missions of social enterprises around us. For such businesses, there’s more than one bottomline. Besides the financials, success is also measured by social and environmental results.
It could be a business where every menstrual cup you buy pays it forward to an underprivileged women who might not be able to afford disposable sanitary pads,
It could be employing marginalised women to create upcycled products, which would otherwise be left to pollute India’s rivers.
It could be selling earrings made by women refugees, who are determined to regain self-worth and financial independence after surviving trauma and loss.
Or it could be providing language and training courses to low-wage migrant workers so they have new skills to create better lives for themselves.
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Read more here about four such businesses — Freedom Cups, Phool (formerly known as HelpUsGreen), Rohingya Women Development Network (RWDN) and SDI Academy what it means to be a social enterprise.
Source: Our Better World, 13 November 2019