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Monday 30-1-2023

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In the context of activating the plan for the development sector of the NGOs at the Misr Al -Khair Foundation to raise the capabilities of civil societies and link its work to the sustainable development goals and the Egypt Vision 2030, the sector administration organized a discussion session on Day Monday, January 30, 2023, hosted by Dr. / Moamen Rashid .. Consultant Marketing and Entrepreneurship Strategies.

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Where the session dealt with a number of important points, including the concept of social entrepreneurship, which is that it is an approach that develops and funds individuals, groups, or startups, or entrepreneurs, solutions to social, cultural and environmental issues, and this concept can be applied to a wide range From various organizations in size, goals and beliefs.

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"Rashid" also explained that social entrepreneurship revolves around identifying social problems, and achieving social change by employing the principles and operations of entrepreneurship.
In the same context, "Rashid" pointed out that the concept of "social entrepreneurship" expresses that person who organizes business and managing projects and using new applications that have the ability to solve societal problems, as he is always ready to bear risks and make efforts to make positive changes in Society.
In this regard, it is necessary to emphasize the difference between the entrepreneurship aimed at profit and social entrepreneurship, which mainly focuses on the creation of social capital without measuring performance in terms of profit or critical return.

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Also highlighting the attributes of the social entrepreneur, including the feeling of commitment to social responsibility; They devote their day to adopting social projects to serve humanity in a more sophisticated way. The "entrepreneur" has a special innate ability to feel the opportunity and behavior based on it, combine thinking outside the box and possessing a unique ability to achieve it.

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Some examples of social entrepreneurship have also been referred to as:

• Financial institutions that serve micro projects are among the most important examples of social entrepreneurship, as these institutions provide loans to unemployed personnel or low -income people who cannot access the financial services provided by banks and major financing institutions.
• Fresh water services are also re -introduced by building new wells, another example of social entrepreneurship, so that the goal of the social entrepreneur is to provide access to societies that lack their fixed facilities.
• In this context, it should be noted that in the modern era, social entrepreneurship and technology are often combined. For example: a high -speed internet connection to remote societies is re -obtained, so that children of school age get more information and knowledge resources, examples of social entrepreneurship.

• It also re -developing mobile applications that meet the needs of a specific society is to another way to express social entrepreneurship.

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This has participated in the session more than ninety participants, in addition to many followers of the session through the live broadcast that was made on the page of the Unit for Building the capabilities of the civil organizations affiliated with the Misr Al -Khair Foundation.

At the end of the session, the door for questions and inquiries was opened for the participants and answering them.