Even to the most creative entrepreneurs, there are those days that everything is half black and white. To bring color back to your business and meet with the inspiration, check the interesting infographic conducted by Entrepreneur magazine. The survey counted on the participation of experts who write for Scientific American and Psychology Today and was illustrated by Lemonly, which resulted in this creative map. Now release the innovation that lies within you with these 21 inspiring strategies.
The WaterHealth International (WHI) is an established and famous company for creating safe and affordable solutions for providing drinking water in poor communities around the world. To make it possible, WHI builds smalls purification plants, where water passes through a filtering process and is disinfected by the use of UV technology, that allow water to be marketed and consumed.
This is a classic and positive model of a social business, your initial investment can be sourced from traditional methods of charity or equity, and communities can own partial or complete, if it is structured in a cooperative system. To keep the maintenance of the stations and the remuneration of employees, the income earned from the sale of the resource to the benefit reverts to keep the active business.
Data provided by the WHI show that currently about 25% of the world population has access to contaminated water sources, which are used to own consumption or to perform everyday activities. Despite knowing this basic needs, just offer the feature does not solve the problem, so the solution of this organization is so important, in addition to offering a sustainable manner supply, helps in job creation and development of these communities.
The great news is that more than 5 million people in India, Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia have design stations. In addition, the company recently formed a partnership with Coca-Cola the Child With Water program, which is estimated to bring drinking water to about 1 million children living in developing countries.
Want to know more about the International WaterHealth? Visit: www.waterhealth.com. Are you inspired with this initiative and would like to put your entrepreneurial spirit into practice? Make a free consultation with the project Cassio Antunes Endeavour.
Is it possible to make a profitable business and still contribute to society? The KLEM Project shows that yes, the action was conceived by designer Lee Jinyoung, who was inspired by the style “do it yourself” to generate a source of income and put a pair of shoes on the feet of the residents of poor communities in Malawi, Africa.
To make it possible, this project is based on the business model “One for One”, which in addition to exploring and re-use native materials, makes the population less dependent and every other shoe sold is donated to a barefoot child in the world. Thus, the project installed a sales cycle that drives the region’s economy, creates jobs and still meet a social need.
Business opportunities are everywhere, just observe, and to KLEM Project inspiration came when Lee and his team participated in an episode of the program “Design is Human”, aired by SBS TV. During the recordings and through conversations with the community, they found a serious problem, most people besides having sub-jobs were poorly paid and 40% of their expenses were met with foreign aid.
So that residents develop the shoes are offered kits in style “do it yourself”, containing guidelines for the production, a fabric that is easily molded feet and a piece of recycled tire serving as sole.
This business model is still on the rise, projects like KLEM and, once known brand shoes, TOMS (Shoes for Tomorrow), in addition to our Cassio Antunes Endeavour initiative, which offers free advice to entrepreneurs in underserved regions around the world shows that you can make a difference, move the economy without losing social responsibility.
Watch the video and learn a little more about KLEM Project Africa.