entrepreneurs without borders case study
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This is a sample of a longer case study I created for the organization, Entrpreneurs Without Borders. I spent two weeks in Bangalore, india with the group exploring several social entreprises and nonprofits and documenting the trip. This case study was created as both an internal and external document for he organization.TRANSCRIPT
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Entrepreneurs Without Borders Our Mission: To empower members to identify, design, and implement sustainable, project based solutions to issues faced by people in developing and subsistence economies around the world.
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Empower EWOB students partnered with several organizations that empower entrepreneurship in the economically active poor
Innovate EWOB students collaborated with start-‐up companies to innovate groundbreaking solutions to social problems
Serve EWOB students worked hand in hand with various philanthropic groups to improve the lives of impoverished Indians
Entrepreneurs Without Borders (EWOB) is a student-‐lead organization that allows for entrepreneurial-‐minded collegiate students to establish long-‐term relationships with disenfranchised people in other countries and work with them to solve problems they are facing. Through our work, we connect with communities around the
world to learn from each other by developing business-‐ based projects that solve local economic and social issues. Our time in Bangalore was EWOB’s second trip to India. The purpose of this trip was to explore and work with several social enterprises to learn more about social entrepreneurship in India. While there, we collaborated with
two microfinance organizations, worked with children in three schools, and visited several start-‐ups. We hope that what we have learned during our time in Bangalore can be used to pursue future collaboration between EWOB and social enterprises in India.
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Combining innovation with a will to change lives, Akshaya Patra expands to feed over 1 million children in 10 years.
Akshaya Patra is a non-‐profit organization that provides mid-‐day meals to low-‐income students, incentivizing children to stay in school, rather than perform menial jobs to pay for food. Akshaya Patra started their mid-‐day meal program in 2000, feeding just 1,500 children in 5 schools in Bangalore. Today, just 11 years later, Akshaya Patra has expanded to feed almost 1.3 million children nationwide.
EWOB students were able to visit their central kitchen in Bangalore, which uses steam based technology to cook enough rice to feed 1500 children each hour. Akshaya Patra ensures that the lunches they serve are both nutritionally balanced and true to regional taste. In the South of India, these meals consist of rice
and traditional sambar. In the North, the rice is substituted for the regional taste of naan, an Indian flatbread. They also distribute questionnaires to the children in each region asking their opinions about the food served. When a problem is detected, their goal is to have the problem addressed by the following week.
The average cost per meal comes to about 7.5 rupees. To fund the midday meal program, Akshaya Patra receives governement subsidies but just over half of their
support from donations and fundraising events. This means that from month to month, the organization does not know where their money to cook and distribute the meals will come from.
EWOB students spent a day with Akshaya Patra where they were able tour their advanced production plant. The students had the opportunity to speak with Akshaya Patra’s Head of Communications, Bharathi Ghanashyam, who revealed several key components of Akshaya Patra’s critically acclaimed efficiency and effectiveness in alleviating child hunger. Finally, EWOB’ers got to experience Akshaya Patra hands-‐on by going to the schools and distributing food to the students.
Akshaya Patra: Fueling Learning
Providing mid-‐day meals gives children the incentive to come to school, rather than taking up menial jobs to pay for their own meals.