Lucas Turner Stresses Education to the Underprivileged Through BuildOn

For Lucas Turner, it was a dream come true as he could impart education to the underprivileged. For the last four years after graduating from Creighton University, he has moved to Lima, Peru, northern Uganda, Los Angeles and New York City.
It was clear, even as an undergraduate, the Heider College’s Business graduate was not going to follow a conventional career route. His out of the box thinking took him to a global development tour. His first encounter was in Peru doing voluntary work with Krochet Kids International. Krochet is involved in empowering women and their children out of poverty. They were taught knitting and crocheting as a trade to earn money.
Then he went to northern Uganda, where he worked for a charity organization called charity. The charity provides clean potable water doing well construction in rural villages. His world wind tour made him understand the importance of clean water plays about economic well-being. He saw how dirty water makes people sick or can even to their death.
Turner is the CEO of BuildOn which aims to mitigate poverty, illiteracy and low expectations. They help to build primary schools internationally and run high school service-learning programs in the U.S. He spread his wings to Nepal, Nicaragua, Malawi, Senegal, and Haiti.
Soon he will be establishing his own company to help the socially underprivileged. He could transform the ‘ghost city of Detroit’ where gangsters and drug traffickers dominate. As education is the key to making that change, he has established BuildOn. BuildOn encourages people to stand up for justice.
BuildOn proves the point that education is the key to changing the community, city, country and the world.

Reference URL: https://www.buildon.org/

Rothschild Medal Goes To Social Entrepreneur Annemiek Hoogenboom

Annemiek Hoogenboom is an outstanding fundraiser for humanitarian and environmental causes. More specifically, she is concerned with nature conservation and giving children the opportunity to experience wildlife. During her work of 28 years, a whopping £6.8 billion fund was raised.
Annemiek believes firmly in the vital importance of nature to society and no wonder she was awarded the prestigious Charles Rothschild and Miriam Rothschild medal.
Charles Rothschild and his daughter Miriam worked tirelessly to conserve wildlife. On accepting the award from The Wildlife Trusts, she said the fact that we are losing precious wildlife and habitats is saddening. From 2009 the Rothschild medal is awarded in one or more areas.
Miriam Rothschild also helped teenagers orphaned by the Holocaust, taking them into her home. So it is the right fitting award medal to Annemiek, someone who has like-minded energy, vision for the future and an unparalleled dedication both to our environment and to today’s refugees.
Annemiek work brings comfort not just to wildlife, but to people too. She is involved with educating schoolchildren about wildlife in Forest Schools across. She helped to bring beavers back to Scotland after a 400-year absence. She was on the front of the agitation against a motorway threatening wildlife.
She said that we are losing a precious wildlife due to human negligence and greed.
We should try to bring back the past glory of the wildlife. They help to bring it back more. ‘The Wildlife Trusts’ Forest Schools’ are doing just this, in some of the largest cities in the UK. But a lot more to be done in this regard so that the ecology is protected. She says that we have only one earth and it is our pertinent duty to preserve it with utmost care and dedication.

Reference URL: http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/2017/10/25/entrepreneur-annemiek-hoogenboom-receives-rothschild-medal

What Makes Someone A Social Entrepreneur?

A social entrepreneur is after social innovation and changes in the society. His initiative might be in the direction of education, health, environment, animal care, pollution and enterprise development. A social entrepreneur is both a businessman as well as a social worker who is working in improving some parts of the society. They tend to improve the living conditions and standard of living in the society they dwell in. A social entrepreneur might even build organizations or non-profit companies, but their collective intention has some kind of improvement associated with it.
A social entrepreneur has following attributes:
A social entrepreneur has a systematic approach towards solving a social problem. They bring social change through a sustainable social model of a company.
He/she keeps updated with technical and social trends and tries to bring innovation to the society.
Social entrepreneur creates social value for a particular thing or approach.
Awareness is part of his end goals.
He has combined attributes of Richard Branson and Mother Teresa.
He believes in continuous refining and improvement.
A social entrepreneur might find a new product, services or approach that was not presented and the gap requires to be filled.
The efforts of a social entrepreneur are impact oriented. His work is aimed at economic and social development. His basic driving force is his passion. However, he is practical in his practices and methodologies. He monitors the impact and improvises his efforts based on his results. A social entrepreneur engages with the community and tries to understand the need of the people. His efforts are subject to change as per responses. He is a team leader and imposes his ideologies in practice with his team. He takes the inputs from his team and works in close collaboration with everyone.

Reference URL: http://www.schwabfound.org/content/what-social-entrepreneur