2. Effects, Development and actions of
Social Entrepreneurship
• The terms social entrepreneur and social
entrepreneurship were first used in the literature
on social change in the 1960s and 1970s.
• Today, many people play a role to
promote, fund, and advise social entrepreneurs
around the world
• Social entrepreneurship is a practice that
integrates economic and social value creation has
a long heritage and a global presence
3. Poverty Facts
• Almost half the world - about 3 million people - live on less than USD$2.50
a day.
• The poorest 40 percent of the world's population accounts for 5 percent of
global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world
income.
• According to UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency
Fund), 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they "die quietly
in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny
and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these
dying multitudes even more invisible in death."
• Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons
was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it
didn't happen.According to the Unesco (United Nationals
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), it was reported that one
in five adults is not literate today and two-thirds of them are women.
4. Effects of poverty
• Widespread diseases and hunger - One third of deaths, some 18 million
people a year or 50,000 per day, are due to poverty-related causes: in total
270 million people, most of them women and children, have died as a
result of poverty since 1990. According to the World Health
Organization, hunger and malnutrition are the single gravest threats to the
world's public health and malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to
child mortality, present in half of all cases.
• Illiteracy - In the US educational system, these children are at a higher risk
than other children for retention in their grade, special placements during
the school's hours and even not completing their high school education.
• Homelessness - Slum-dwellers, who make up a third of the world's urban
population, live in a poverty no better, if not worse, than rural
people, who are the traditional focus of the poverty in the developing
world, according to a report by the United Nations.
• Violence - 51% of fifth graders from New Orleans (median income for a
household: $27,133) have been found to be victims of violence, compared
to 32% in Washington, DC (mean income for a household: $40,127).
5. Actions Taken
• International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - This call
was made by Joseph Wresinski, founder of the
International Movement ATD Fourth World, and was
officially recognised by the United Nations in 1992.
• Government Schemes - Conditional cash transfer (CCT)
programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare
programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. The
government only transfers the money to persons who meet
certain criteria.
• Voluntary Welfare Organisations - Examples include the
Center for Global Development (CGD), Child Poverty Action
Group, End Poverty Now (EPN), and the United Nations
Development Program Millennium Development Goals
(MDG), Poverty Assessment and Monitoring.
