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Given all the problems our world faces - in teaching, technology, health care, or finance - we need many more social entrepreneurs and change makers. Progress against these problems will be intolerably slow if only 3% to 5% of world's population thinks they can solve them.
We need to teach our youth that they can help people; that they can lead; that they can make lasting and important change in their communities and across the globe. Society, employers, educators, and parents need to recognize that our kids' successful personal and social development must start with a mastery of several complex skills — empathy, teamwork, leadership, and change making.
The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CENTIN) at UMT has been moving towards attaining another unique goal; "Show Your Creativity Project- A Social Entrepreneurial Perspective". The objectives of this project were set in collaboration with YES Network Pakistan. Youth Engagement Services (YES) Network Pakistan is a legally registered non-profit organization and has played a pioneering role in introducing the concepts of youth service and youth social entrepreneurship in the country.
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For this purpose, 43 students of UMT entrepreneurship class were awarded Rs1000/student (in total Rs 43,000) and were required to come up with the social sntrepreneurial idea/project by using this money. As a result, students began working hard on different social entrepreneurship ideas and showed great potential in this area, by engaging many underprivileged, mostly deprived and neglected people in the Pakistani society. To motivate and encourage them further, CENTIN arranged a social entrepreneurial idea competition.
The presentations were judged and evaluated on the basis of idea/social impact/ operations/ financial feasibility. The 3-member panel of judges comprised of Dawood Ilyas Butt, Associate Professor, HSM, Mobin-ul-Haque, Chairman Marketing Department. HSM, and Ali Raza Khan, CEO, Yes Network, Pakistan. To continue the efforts towards supporting social causes, MoU was signed s between CENTIN-UMT and Yes Network Pakistan.
This program was designed and initiated to boost the morale of UMT students towards self realization and social entrepreneurship.
The event was also honored by some distinguished guests {not the business tycoons- but hardworking, true and honest Pakistanis- those who are being deprived of their basic rights); these are the people, with whom UMT- social entrepreneurial projects are being initiated.
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