India and Nigeria : Interviews social entrepreneurs

Good Morning friends,

How are you?

The benefit Incubator Social Services in the World ( GSBI ) is the program sponsored by the Center for Science,Technology and Society at Santa Clara University. It works with social entrepreneurs to give them motivation to them and their organizations.

From the GSBI, the Global Social Benefit Incubator and the Next Billion Blog comes a serie of video interviews of social entrepreneurs meeting for the Global Social Benefit Incubator.

The first person interviewed was Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu

who runs a small business of radio for rural states in Nigeria, providing poor farmers in rural communities and isolated rural radio full of information and sustainable and developmen in local languages.

Another example is Sish Manoj is  Indian, but has a different vision of affordable energy for rural communities.

Post originally published  Juliana Rincon Parra

“Knowledge from social entrepreneurs”

Best regards,

Mireya

Ability to understand others realities

Good Morning friends,

Today I want to stop and make a post for you, a post thanking all users who daily to visit me.

After several months that I’m writing this blog every time I fell better.

Actually I think about the possibility to make some changes on design,categories of blog. What do you think about it? Comments are welcome.

Initially established with the idea of talking about the behaviors in the global economic and social in Latin America,Africa and India. Now I think that I have to  specialize more it  and approach to the entrepreneurs and international cooperation in these continents.

We can change things up a bit  in this world each in its context.

See the video  ..

Best regards,

Mireya

Tool for investors in Africa

Good Morning friends,

With my first coffee in the morning,

As an investor in Africa and anywhere in the world, you need information for making the decisions.

This information is possible through Afrobarometer research proyect is an independent- non- partisan environment that measures the social,political and economic context in Africa.

Afrobarometro surveys are conducted in more of twelve African countries and are repeated regularly.

There is the possibilty of systematically compare dates with others countries , throught of the group of questions that apply in relation with the trends in attitudes of people over time etc..

The results are spoken with responsibles decision making, for example investors etc..

Afrobarometer: Online information and date analysis in African countries

Best regards, Mireya

More information :  http://www.jdsurvey.net/jds/afrobarometer.jsp

Competition for social entrepreneurs

Good Morning friends,

With my first coffee in the morning …

A social entrepreneur is a new type of entrepreneur who incorporates in its performance on social and economic benefit.

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship promotes the work on social entrepreneurship and promotes the role of social entrepreneurs as key agents of change for progress and social innovation.

Have a contest now for participating in the Social Entrepreneur of the Year in various countries around the world.

In Brazil and Israel are  in the contest in in full swing ,  is time to participate in other countries too :

• Middle East  16 February
• Africa 1 March
• Latin America 15 February
• Central America 14 February
• Chile 15 March

You can be the next Entrepreneur of the Year

Best regards,

Mireya

The global day of volunteerism

Good Morning friends,

With my first coffee in the morning …

I was thinking about all the volunteers  that there  are around the world.

It seems that whenever more we hear the bad news but that happens with good,  that happens to all those people who believes in a better world and contribute their bit.

On December 5 is the international day of volunteerism, according to United Nations established in 1985.

People who come to various ONG or websites help wanting to contribute their spare time and their expertise to proyects that build a fairer world.

Proyects that assist the development of their community and economic and social improvement in the area. Thanks for volunteering many young people who live comfortably get in touch with the realities of other situations of poverty . Thanks for volunteering that older people are discovering that are still useful for society.

There are many reasons for wanting to be volunteers desire to help, to apply our knowledge into something good and felling the need to help.

Volunteers are a  element key in the world  for the economic

Best regards,

Mireya

Social entrepreneurs

Good Morning friends,

How are you? With my first coffee of the morning,I want to finish the week telling the story of a social entrepreneur’s the example Jaume Sanllorente founder of “Smiles of Bombay“.

The history of  Jaume Sanllorente has its roots in a trip to India,Spanish journalist from this trip build “Smiles of Bombay”.  He is a  young man committed to the cause,with the world.

After seeing near Bombay many needs,especially those of the untouchables decided to invest all their savings put in a small orphanage,embarking on a peaceful struggle against poverty in Bombay and which continues day after day.

A founder of the ONG “Smiles of Bombay” is working with the poorest communities,dedicated to the care and education of orphans and poor families from the streets of the Indian city of Bombay.

“The measures of the ability of human beings and our responsability before poverty is more than you think”

Best regards,

Mireya

Entrepreneurs bright ideas

Good Morning friends,

How are you? Entrepreneurs with great ideas are able to reach out its entire proyect under difficult conditions,taking my first coffee of the morning I was reading history of this workshop geared to women with difficulties.

The original workshop is geared to women with family problems and poor in the province of Pisco (Peru), the hardest hit by the earthquake of 2007,accessories are made with fish skin.

Women go to the pier at dawn in search of the best marine examples. Await that species will be selected by a buyer,who only ask that they hand over the skins of fish,after being withdrawn.

They choose the skin of flounder,groupers,croaker,conger,rays and tollos,as well as tilapia and mulle.In all these cases we seek to keep the skin flakes,which will give you the perfect finish to the final product “explains the occurrence artist“, once selected furs are conducting a cleansing,then the beautiful skin go through a chemical solution that removes the particles,proteins,vitamins and fiber to prevent its putrefaction,but above all to eliminate the distinctive smell of fish.

Once these skins are worked used for producing hangbags,wallets,cases for eyeglasses,belts,wallets and shoes.

” The brightness of social ideas in difficult conditions “

Best regards,

Mireya