This article describes a new business project in Kenya that has goals to improve the health of people in poor areas of Kenyas largest city and help people make money. After reading the article summarize the important points or include an answer to the discussion question in the comment box below.
"A lot of attention is placed on problems that business creates and we sometimes forget that business can solve problems around the world including problems in poor areas. What is a business project that you know of that is helping solve a social problem in a poor area?"
I know some poor area in China developed tourism. The soil are poor there and few crops can be planed, but the view is great, so they decided to explore tourism which solved their problem, they became rich since then.
ReplyDeleteThis article talked about clean toilet in poor area. In this article, Nairobi, Kenya was presented as a example of poor area. There are no good sanitations in poor area, so people who live there throw dirty things into a river. That causes serious public health risk. Accordingly, local youth group start toilet business. They build affordable sanitation facilities, and they are non- profit entrepreneurs.
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This article announced that Africa people couldn’t use toilet very well, because their facilities was so bad. They wanted to build low-cost sanitation facilities, but each fresh life toilet costs $500. However. They gained some loan, and built. It is also Non-profit. Many African is poor and hungry we expected. It is a fact that many other people aren’t interested in them. It’s so sad that toilet is awful although sanitizing cities is most important to people. I think we should help them as much as you can.
ReplyDeleteThere was a business project at Siloe, a suburb of my country. People had to collect plastic bottles. Then, they sold them to a recycling company. It was a brilliant project because the impact was positive for both, the city and the people. The former became more livable and the latter made some money out of it. At the end, the environment was cleaner and the people were able to get the first need products.
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