A revolution is underway to help create a sustainable planet and improve the lives of millions of poor people and communities across the globe.
April 12, 2005 (Press Release) --
12.5.04
For Immediate Use
This is not simply a matter of charity but a new movement to encourage ‘social entrepreneurship’ where leading corporates and financial institutions team up ‘in an unholy alliance’ with philanthropists and NGOs to help poor and disadvantaged individuals and communities worldwide develop more prosperous and sustainable lives.
The ‘social entrepreneurial’ movement is happening all around us. Here in Sheffield, organisations like ProWorld are playing a pro-active role in creating new relationships and micro-business ventures with young people living Peru, Mexico and Belize.
The men and women driving this social entrepreneurship movement forward are innovative individuals in the business of building a better world, taking complex social problems and producing life changing solutions with their exceptional insight. They focus on the local and marginalised sectors of society – aiding them in promoting their standard of living in relation to the preservation and protection of their natural environment.
Social entrepreneurial initiatives like Café Direct, Camfed, People Tree and the fair trade movement are making big business and government sit up and realise the magnitude of these previously ignored groups, in the overall economic status both nationally and internationally.
Here in Sheffield, ProWorld is also stimulating social change with exciting and inspiring new entrepreneurial initiatives aimed at improving the living standards for poor, disestablished young people in Central and South America. ProWorld places volunteers, students and people from small businesses in innovative new development projects in Central and South America.
ProWorld’s programmes are run in close association with local NGO’s and the communities in which we work. Together we strive to promote social and economic development, while cultivating educated compassionate global citizens. Both sides gain immeasurably from the programmes and relationships formed.
Andrea Leitch, Marketing Director of ProWorld says: ‘The student and graduate placements we offer are very challenging and diverse. ProWorld is dedicated to a number of fascinating projects working with NGO’s such as the ‘Clean Stove Burning Project’, Ecotourism Chicon and local Women’s Rights Centres – to name but a few. We strive to implement lasting and sustainable development projects, making a real difference for the local communities with which we work and all involved’.
Organisations like ProWorld and the Skoll Foundation are trying to make a real difference for poor and underprivileged people worldwide, based on our common belief that that small changes can lead to a big benefits for all.
As the saying goes: “If you think something small can’t make a difference – try sleeping with a mosquito in the room!
Editors Note
On a financial level ProWorld has injected over $340,000 into
projects and the local economies of Peru, Belize and Mexico (Est. $560,000 by end of 2005)
Numbers of volunteers from the UK have doubled in the last year. worldwide, ProWorld now sends around 400 volunteers a year to work with sustainable development projects in South and Central America
For Immediate Use
This is not simply a matter of charity but a new movement to encourage ‘social entrepreneurship’ where leading corporates and financial institutions team up ‘in an unholy alliance’ with philanthropists and NGOs to help poor and disadvantaged individuals and communities worldwide develop more prosperous and sustainable lives.
The ‘social entrepreneurial’ movement is happening all around us. Here in Sheffield, organisations like ProWorld are playing a pro-active role in creating new relationships and micro-business ventures with young people living Peru, Mexico and Belize.
The men and women driving this social entrepreneurship movement forward are innovative individuals in the business of building a better world, taking complex social problems and producing life changing solutions with their exceptional insight. They focus on the local and marginalised sectors of society – aiding them in promoting their standard of living in relation to the preservation and protection of their natural environment.
Social entrepreneurial initiatives like Café Direct, Camfed, People Tree and the fair trade movement are making big business and government sit up and realise the magnitude of these previously ignored groups, in the overall economic status both nationally and internationally.
Here in Sheffield, ProWorld is also stimulating social change with exciting and inspiring new entrepreneurial initiatives aimed at improving the living standards for poor, disestablished young people in Central and South America. ProWorld places volunteers, students and people from small businesses in innovative new development projects in Central and South America.
ProWorld’s programmes are run in close association with local NGO’s and the communities in which we work. Together we strive to promote social and economic development, while cultivating educated compassionate global citizens. Both sides gain immeasurably from the programmes and relationships formed.
Andrea Leitch, Marketing Director of ProWorld says: ‘The student and graduate placements we offer are very challenging and diverse. ProWorld is dedicated to a number of fascinating projects working with NGO’s such as the ‘Clean Stove Burning Project’, Ecotourism Chicon and local Women’s Rights Centres – to name but a few. We strive to implement lasting and sustainable development projects, making a real difference for the local communities with which we work and all involved’.
Organisations like ProWorld and the Skoll Foundation are trying to make a real difference for poor and underprivileged people worldwide, based on our common belief that that small changes can lead to a big benefits for all.
As the saying goes: “If you think something small can’t make a difference – try sleeping with a mosquito in the room!
Editors Note
On a financial level ProWorld has injected over $340,000 into
projects and the local economies of Peru, Belize and Mexico (Est. $560,000 by end of 2005)
Numbers of volunteers from the UK have doubled in the last year. worldwide, ProWorld now sends around 400 volunteers a year to work with sustainable development projects in South and Central America
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