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Social Enterprise: Could your business change the world?
Transformational Business Connections Authors: Colin Habberton & Dr Kim Tan
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The World: Obscene Inequality
“One-fifth of humanity live in countries where many people think nothing of spending $2/R15 a day on a cappuccino.
Another fifth of humanity survive on less than $1/R7.50 a day and live in countries where children die for want of a simple anti-mosquito bed net” Source: UN Human Development Report 2005
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Unjust Consumption
• $7 billion is needed to provide 2.6 billion people with access to clear water annually – Less than we spend on perfume
– Less than Americans spend on elective corrective surgery
• 3 day’s global military spending ($4.5b) could send every child to school for a year
Source: UN Human Development Report 2005
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Unfair Trade & Subsidies
• $1billion a YEAR on aid for agriculture in poor countries
• $1 billion a DAY on subsidies of agricultural overproduction in First World
• EU dairy subsidy is $2.50/cow/day whilst 2.8b people live on <$2/day
Source: UN Human Development Report 2005
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CAN YOU DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS SCANDAL?
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ToughStuff • Solar Panel: Flexible PV strips are light weight and durable (no glass) and
inexpensive • Rechargeable LED Lamp: Multiple settings light a small hut for 6-30 hours • Mobile Phone Connector Cables • Radio Connector: Operate battery-powered radios or small appliances • Rechargeable Battery Pack: Performs even in tropical high-temperature
situations
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Hagar Industries Cambodia
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Kenya
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Bridge International Academies
• Large-scale for-profit chain of ultra-affordable private primary schools across Africa
• Fees <R30 per child per month • Highly innovative "school in a box
model“ – Cashless schools – Scripted Teaching methods – Ultra-low cost construction model
• First two schools operational in Nairobi Slums on track financially, with tremendous demand, and huge educational gains
• In process of launching 5 more • Profitable model scaling to more than
1 million students in the next 7 years
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• Founded in Khayelitsha, Cape Town in 2004 by 4 partners
• Computer training, internet access and business support services
• 1000’s of people introduced to ICT and trained per year
• Affordable, accessible services meeting critical needs at a local level
• 18 Employees by 2009, 60+ in 2012 • R1,8 million in turnover in 2009 up to
over R 8 million by 2011 • From a car boot to 19 training and
internet centres in W & E Cape • Tsiba Graduates!
Silulo Ulutho Technologies
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GivenGain
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Challenges to Social Enterprise
• Lack of local knowledge • Lack of trusted management • Distance & communication challenges • No exits • High risk
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Opportunities for Social Enterprise
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Thank You :-) Colin Habberton [email protected] @relatomics
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