Inclusion through Social Enterpreneurship

This project will familiarise the participants with the concept of social entrepreneurship and how it can be used to solve community problems at the local/regional/national/EU level.

By teaching young people how to create, develop and realise a social entrepreneurship idea we can teach them how to help themselves, overcome their barriers and help their communities. 

These are very useful skills, especially for young people with fewer opportunities, who can use the concept to benefit whole disadvantaged groups and communities. 

During the project, the involved youth workers will develop the following skills:

• the ability to accurately define a social problem and the reasons for its existence;
• a framework for creating an action plan towards its solution, with a lasting social impact;
• understanding how to implement the social business plan;
• the ability to present the idea to different groups of people for fundraising purposes;
• the skill to successfully involve the young people the organisations work with in solving the social problem, in the life of the organisation and the community they live in.
• the means to measure the social impact after implementing the plan.

The coordinator “Orenda” Foundation has an operating social enterprise and collaborates with 4 more social enterprises from Varna, Bulgaria. The participants will have the chance to visit these enterprises, meet their creators and beneficiaries and gain practical insights.