Not long ago, we had the opportunity to meet Jaime Moreno, the social founder of Integra-e, an example of a social enterprise created in Spain which is slowly making its way into the new technological sector.
A social enterprise is created with the aim of mitigating a social problematic. Integra-e looks to mitigate the social exclusion of young people through information technologies. In addition to this, a social enterprise acts with the efficiency of a business, but prioritizing a social benefit instead of an economical one and contributing to mitigating a social problem in a sustainable way (exclusion and missing opportunities).
Integra-e is a network of organizations and people who’s goal is to generate social work integration opportunities for young people in a vulnerable situation with prolonged unemployment, through information technologies. Integra-e identifies those young people who confronted important personal complications in life, making it difficult for their cappacities to have the chance they deserve to develop. Once they’re chosen, they enter in the integral inclusion itinerary formation, access to work and entrepreneurship support. These three phases seek, not only to contribute to the technical capacitation of these young people, but also to build in them, a real interest for new technologies that can help them grow as people.
All this work is done, exploiting idle resources by ceasing the use of infrastructure, the donation of equipment and the volunteers.
You can follow them on facebook.
Jaime gave us very good advice on how to face the challenge of developing our social entrepreneurship program in Kibera and some guidelines that will for sure help us very much.
We encourage you to get to know more about this project that is helping young people, giving them a second opportunity and the option of exploiting their huge capacities channeled through information technologies. We are sure that if you try their services, you will be greatly satisfied.
Here is a video that explains how Integra-e works:
We want to thank Jaime for all his help and hope to be able to collaborate with Integra-e in the near future.
‘‘Don’t ask for a light weight, ask for a strong back’’.
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