SOCIAL ENTERPRISES. This is another one of the pillars of Más Por Ellos. Until now we have concentrated on explaining how we are going to cover basic and humanitarian needs for the orphan children, where we will put most of our energy during the first few years. This doesn’t mean that we will put aside the social enterprise project and the network which we intend to create, but in order to do this well, first we need to know the community in which we are going to grow and understand their real needs so that we can figure out what is the best way to create our network.
We believe that social enterprises are another, very useful option that can solve many problems. Our project, from the beginning, has one main goal; to be sustainable. This will happen when there is a source of income beyond donations and other help. The aim is to finance small social businesses, through microcredits that will be given via our internet platform (COOFUND), which we will monitor and follow up so that they meet our global aims. Our idea is that these businesses, that will share certain principles and values, give a part of their income/profits to the maintenance of the orphanage, in such a way that in the long run the project will be sustainable and economically self-sufficient.
Social enterprises, as we understand them, are enterprises which look for an economical AND social benefit. The values and principles that define their structure are not only economical, but also have a real and clear commitment with the community in which they carry out their activity. The crisis in which we are all immersed, has proved that the pure capitalist system is not able to give solutions that are sustainable or that generate stability or growth in the long run in a community. Its these social enterprises that are giving a new solution to the problem and that have demonstrated (Ashoka, Gramen Bank…etc) that with work and clear principles, what we understand as ‘development’ can be generated.
Más Por Ellos intends to develop a community in all its aspects, in such a way that all the actors within it will be involved and believe in us so that in the future, they can grow all together and slowly change society.
"The problems that you have today, cannot be solved thinking in the same way you thought when you created them" Albert Einstein.
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