Project Overview
Gaining from the community and giving back to the same, are they conflicting? We thought not!
Social Entrepreneurship is a mechanism of addressing social, cultural and environmental issues in one’s community by the means of a market-oriented approach that benefits both one’s self and the larger community outside while making a contribution to a more sustainable, equitable and just society.
With that in mind, International Youth Alliance for Peace in partnership with the American Corner in Colombo launched the initiative of empowering the SL youth to emerge positive and sustainable change-makers in the community. The initiative aims to equip a target audience of 20+ young people aged between 18 and 28 years of age with the skills of social entrepreneurship, guiding them to develop their own idea for a social enterprise to create a social centered solution for an identified social, cultural or environmental issue in their local communities.
Objectives
The project, Social Innovator 1.0 aims to introduce the concept of Social Entrepreneurship to the participants of the project by demonstrating the following sub motives :
- Introducing the participants to the concept of Social Entrepreneurship
- Developing an innovative project idea which generates a sustainable solution to an identified social issue in their local community.
- Aligning that idea with a business model under the guidance of experienced individuals in the field
