Young Social Entrepreneurs of Canada » india http://www.ysec.org We are young social entrepreneurs providing support, resources, and networking opportunies for other young social entrepreneurs in Canada to start their own social enterprises or social businesses. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:47:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 SE Spotlight – Ketan Deshpande http://www.ysec.org/2009/11/20/se-spotlight-ketan-deshpande/ http://www.ysec.org/2009/11/20/se-spotlight-ketan-deshpande/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:06 +0000 admin http://www.ysec.org/?p=626 Ketan Deshpande, a third year engineering student at a city college in India, has become the youngest Indian to join the ranks of the Paragon 100 Fellowship awarded by the Hong Kong-based Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE) this year. Ketan got the award for starting a voluntary organisation – Friends’ Union for Energising Lives (FUEL) which works towards creating awareness of entrance tests and centralised admission procedures to colleges for students. The organisation also runs a helpline and conducts workshops giving details of the exam dates, tips on filling forms, preparing for the tests and so on. (Read full article on The Punekar here)

As per the FUEL website:

The organization has been founded with the core principle of making a difference in the lives of many students across the country who need a definite and concrete support to plan their career.

To learn more about the Paragon 100 fellowship – Asia’s most inspiring entrepreneurs and social changemakers – click here.

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YSEC are always on the lookout for young social entrepreneur projects (especially Canadian ones) to spotlight so if you know of any other great ideas or stories (and it could be your own) feel free to share them with us and we may post them on our blog!

Facebook Twitter WordPress Yahoo Mail Blogger Post Share/Bookmark]]> http://www.ysec.org/2009/11/20/se-spotlight-ketan-deshpande/feed/ 2 Social entrepreneurs make it their business to change India http://www.ysec.org/2009/11/05/social-entrepreneurs-make-it-their-business-to-change-india/ http://www.ysec.org/2009/11/05/social-entrepreneurs-make-it-their-business-to-change-india/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:30:44 +0000 admin http://www.ysec.org/?p=544 A social entrepreneur recognises a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organise, create, and manage a venture to forge social change. The first international conference on social entrepreneurship was held at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences recently in Mumbai, India.

Read more about the event here.

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