Planning ministry organizes seminar on social entrepreneurship

ISLAMABAD, Oct 22 (APP):Ministry of Planning, Development and Reform’s Centre for
Social Entrepreneurship organized on Monday a day-long seminar here to
highlight the importance of social entrepreneurship in the country which not
only provides opportunity to the enterprises to earn money but it also helps
the poor and needy in various ways.
The ministry organized the seminar titled “Social
Entrepreneurship: Policy, Innovation, and Future”, in collaboration with the
British Council and Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI).
During the seminar the speakers stressed the need for
promoting social entrepreneurship in the country by encouraging specially the
youth to bring in innovative ideas for the socio economic development of the
country.
They said the social entrepreneurs should passionately focus
only on serving the people by keeping aside their monetary aspects.
“It is power of passion among the social entrepreneurs which
is driving them to serve the people,” they said adding that if they really focus
of service of the people, they would get their monetary benefits automatically,
but they should give priority to their social service over their monetary
benefits,” they added.
The speakers said that the mission of the centre for Social
Entrepreneurship was to educate youth to use business tools, entrepreneurial
and management skills to address social and environment challenges.
This centre, they said is aimed at reducing poverty and
social issues through innovative business ideas and small start-ups.
Innovative business ideas can promote development of
innovative products and services to serve disadvantage communities and
vulnerable segments.