Social Entrepreneurship and Community Development
Date: 27 March 2014
Prof Albert Teo Chu Ying was from the Department of Management and Organisation Business School, National University of Singapore.
Those who were in the dark over social entrepreneurship would have been enlightened after attending his talk titled 'Social Entrepreneurship and Community Development'.
Social entrepreneurs are people skilled in leveraging. They acquaint and pool people with the resources necessary to help them combat a social issue that they are passionate of as shared by Prof Teo, who cautioned that social entrepreneurs are not catalyst for change and hence, need to stay grounded to create the right conditions for empowerment and self-sufficiency to happen.
He further added that a sustainable social development helps in long run, eradicate the target community's dependency on external aid so that they live with renewed hope, purpose, dignity and confidence.
