SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR CHANGING THE WORLD

Blanca Narváez, Directora de fundación Junior Achievement

Starting a business and become an entrepreneur supposed to take a difficult decision. It is a complicated process which requires patience, perseverance, clear objectives, ideas… and above all, overcome many obstacles. The base is detecting a problem and design a solution.

These days, social and environmental problems makes social entrepreneurship especially important right now. Our society requires a change of mentality, a new way of understanding business focused on social welfare. The world needs young people who want things to change. We really need projects and innovative models to face this problems.

Social entrepreneurship is basic at this moment and it is necessary to inspire young people to create solutions to the problems in the world. “Social 360 Programme” helps our students to understand the importance of sustainability and its social impact. Moreover, the first major economic value that social entrepreneurship creates is job and employment creation, apart from giving a solution to a societal problem in an innovative way. By being a social enterprise you make a real difference in people’s life and contributes to a better world.

Junior Achievement wants to awake young people’s creativity. A new generation of entrepreneurs able to face real problems with security and optimism. People full of fresh ideas and the aim of building a better world looking for an exponential impact on society.