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How Social Business create Change
Getting involved in Grameen Danone also affected how Danone employees and shareholders see the world. Read how helping malnourished children in Bangladesh changed their perspective.
How to start a Social Business
Starting a Social Business is almost the same as starting any typical business. You want to make it sustainable and making money to sustain itself.
Instead of focusing on a user need, you focus on a social problem.
What is a Social Business?
Prof Mohammed Yunus, Nobel Prize Laureate, has created the concept of a Social Business which is meant to be self sustaining and helps the needy.
Grameen Danone – feeding the malnourished
Once you understand the principles of Social Business, it is not so hard to propose one. The key is to work with the right partner who also has the same sense of social responsibility.
Grameen Shakti – Providing electricity to the poor
Grameen Shakti is a renewable energy Social Business using the principles defined by Prof Yunus. It has transformed the lives of women in more ways than can be imagined, making them technicians and independent entrepreneurs.
