About Social Enterprises - Shulammite Paul

      Social enterprise development is an aspect of  entrepreneurship that applies generic business principles in solving social issues. The emphasis is on solving social problems, however, instead of adopting a humanitarian model that involves giving a man the fish, social enterprises focus on giving back to the community according to its need in a sustainable way that involves teaching the man to fish.

 A social enterprise is a revenue-generating business with social objectives whose surpluses are reinvested- for that purpose- in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to deliver profit to shareholders and business owners. Basically, when a business is focused on doing well for the community and at the same time making enough profit to be self-sufficient, we are talking about a social enterprise.