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Winning presentation in the SATU Presidents' Forum's Youth Forum last November 11, 2008.
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End Poverty NowPoverty Alleviation through
Social EntrepreneurshipPTM6TOmar Castanar
Thitikan SatchabutNurul 'Iffah Bte IbrahimJie-Wei Chang
Yun-Chih Yu
Chung Yen Chuan
Sophia Lee
I Han Chen
Yenchi Chen
Cheng chang Lu
Defining Poverty
The poor refers to individuals and families whose income fall below the official poverty threshold as defined by the government and/or cannot afford to provide in a sustained manner for their minimum basic needs for food, health, education, housing, and other social amenities of life. The poverty line measures the income needed to obtain basic and non-basic needs for one year. (Virola, 2008)
5.7% or 1.6 million Malaysians are poor(UNDP)
32.9% or 27.6 million Filipinos are poor(NSCB)
0.95% or 217,000 Taiwanese are poor (CIA Fact Book)
29.9% or 19 million Thais are poor (UN)
The Vicious Cycle of Poverty
Poverty & Environment1
Population-Poverty Trap2
Less investment on transportation3
Povertyand
Child Mortality
4
Capabilities Poverty
How do We Make Poverty History?
Old Paradigm for Human Development
Charity
New Paradigm for Human Development
INNOVATION and CREATIVITIY
Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems.
They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.
She makes rags out of scraps (profit: 1 Peso)
Link them directly to the marketPhase One
Turn it a social cause into a sellable productPhase Two
1.Access to Business Loans
2.Additional Income through Best Price & New Businesses
3.Training4.Store Improvement
The challenge is for us is to use our knowledge and skills as university students to provide capabilities and skills that would empower the indigent sections of the community.
How can we become SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS?
Conclusion
1. Alleviating poverty can help a country with its overall economic productivity (GNP & GDP).
2. Social entrepreneurship can empower people and even help in lessening pollution.
3. We, as university students, can help end poverty by training others to sustain themselves.