Minds On

https://youtu.be/qURtpVJ-0Os

What is Social Entrepreneurship?

Definition

What do you think the term ‘social entrepreneur’ means?

Social Entrepreneurs15 People of have made a difference

Watch the video below from the beginning to 4:15 minutes in

https://youtu.be/nlXKcpgPP6M

Definition

Now what do you think? What is a ‘social entrepreneur’?

A social entrepreneur is someone who creates an organization or business with the purpose of solving social, cultural, and environmental problems and effecting change.

http://www.csef.ca/what_is_a_social_entrepreneur.php

Definition

How To Be a Social Entrepreneur

Watch the video above from the beginning to 3:13 minutes in

https://youtu.be/N8LVa9pb-n8

Local Ideas That are Making ChangesThe next two local examples of social

entrepreneurship are ideas that started

from personal experience.

Stop Gaplocal solutions for our community

https://youtu.be/C7spyqjR_lg

U of T students turning coffee grounds into fuel for refugees Metro News Story

Project hopes to win the Hult Prize, a million dollar global competition to solve most pressing issues facing refugees in various camps.

University of Toronto students (left to right) Lucy Yang, Matthew Frehlich, Gotham Rakmachandran, Sam Bennett and lucas Siow are turning coffee grounds into firewood to help people living in refugee camps.

http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2017/01/12/students-turn-coffee-grounds-into-firewood.html

By: Gilbert Ngabo Metro Published on Thu Jan 12 2017

University of Toronto students are using refuse to help refugees.

Students from the business and engineering programs have partnered to build Moto, a fuel log made from used coffee grounds, wax and sugar that acts as substitute for firewood.

“Thousands of women and children from refugee camps in Africa spend hours and hours collecting firewood,” said Sam Bennett, an MBA student at UofT’s Rotman School of Management.

“Not only is it exhausting for them, it is also dangerous. Through our research we found that very often they are attacked and assaulted.”

Bennett hopes that Moto can serve as a safer, environmentally-friendly alternative to firewood, which many refugees rely on for heating and cooking.

With coffee grounds collected from local Starbucks, Second Cup and Tim Hortons, the group has gone through different mixes to produce the current fuel log.

Moto – a Swahili word that means fire – can burn for more than an hour.

“We’re using low tech to produce it, but I’m sure the final optimized product will be more effective than firewood,” Bennett said.

http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2017/01/12/students-turn-coffee-grounds-into-firewood.html

The project is part of the Hult Prize competition, which encourages university students to tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues. The UofT group will be headed to Shanghai in March for the next stage of the contest.

If they win, they’ll receive $1 million to implement their venture.

Bennett said the long-term plan for the group is to establish a manufacturing plant in Africa, which will allow them to produce the material at a cheaper price and also employ local people.

“I think this would really improve people’s lives,” he said. “And the less we use firewood, the better the environment is protected.”

If we Are going to change the world and ask others to do the same. then we need to find and articulate at least one thing that we

are seriously, fiercely passionate about.

Heartbreak Mapping

Finding our Passion and Purpose

Here is an example of a Heartbreak Map

Draw a Heart. In the center of your heart map, write and/or draw the things in this world that break your heart.

Using a different colour write and/or draw why this breaks your heart.

In the final step, write and/or draw outside your heart, ideas for the ways to resolve these heartbreaks.

Forget Following Your Heart, Follow your

Heartbreak