This document discusses how Rotarians can support peace through social enterprise. It outlines how social entrepreneurship provides sustainable solutions by teaching skills rather than just temporary aid. An example is described of a social enterprise project launched by Rotarians in Rome to help Syrian refugees start businesses and become financially self-sufficient through a catering company. The project provides refugees with education, mentoring and financing to establish their businesses and earn livings in a dignified way while also preserving their cultural traditions.

1. How Rotarians Can Support Peace
Through Social Enterprise
Giuseppe Perrone, PDG
District 2080, Italy
26-Jun-2018

2. • Join leaders
• Exchange ideas
• Take actions
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in our community and throughout the world

3. Peace and conflict prevention/resolution
Disease prevention and treatment
Water and sanitation
Maternal and child health
Basic education and literacy
Economic and community development
Focus on 6 areas

4. Integration
• Disease prevention and
treatment
• Water and sanitation
• Maternal and child health
• Basic education and literacy
Peace and conflict prevention/resolution
Economic and community development

5. How to integrate
Start with the community
 Identify a need
 Develop a solution built on
 Community strengths
 Local values and culture

6. 1. Identify a need
2. Develop a solution

7. ● 200.000.000+
people
● 27% youth
(15-24 yo)
Unemployment

8. • May trigger participation
in insurgencies
• May prompt people to
join violent gangs
• May drives people to
extremism, domestic
violence… war
Unemployment and Violence

9. Emigration
• Economic crisis
• Discrimination and
persecution
• War
• Fear of detection
• Anxiety about
conditions and future

10. Mediterranean Sea:
+15,000 dead 2014-17 (UNHCR, IOM)

11. What is going on?
•A massive number
of migrants
escaping to Europe
•Thousands died
•Europe’s leaders
seem unsure how
to deal with this
crisis

12. Hundreds of thousands
5.000
6.683
5.401

13. Who are they?
• Economic
Migrants
• Refugees
Human beings

14. 1. Identify a need
2. Develop a solution

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● If changes
happen in their
homeland
● If return home is
safe
● If …
● If…
A: Voluntary Repatriation

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● Stakeholders
● Consensus
● Acceptance
● Partnership
● Inter-culture
B: Local Integration

17. Philanthropy/Charity Model
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a
day
Support options

18. The NGO/Government Model
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for
a lifetime
Support options

19. Social Entrepreneurship Model
Support options
Provide him access to capital to create a
sustainable fishing business at a fair rate
of return and change the world

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Social Entrepreneurship
•Nonprofit or for-profit business ventures
•Financially self-sufficient
•Financial and social returns

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● Taking a different approach to business
● Collaborative effort
● Leadership reframed
● "Triple Bottom Lines” thinking
Challenges

22. The case

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The Jubilee of Rotarians
(Rome, Italy – April 30th 2015)

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“Helping Refugees to start over”
The Opening ceremony

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Partnership

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Education

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Empowerment
→Tutor → Mentor → Advisor

28. Financing
→ Entrepreneurs → SMEs

29. The application

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● Start earning an honest,
dignified income
● Offer delicious Syrian
culinary tradition
● Fund rising support for
industrial kitchen, office
space, meeting room,
reception, etc
Syrian refugees in Rome

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32. Thank you