What if we just stopped it before it happened?

Site Admin • June 15, 2019

source: Make An Impact
published: 5 June 2019

It’s no secret that I believe the ultimate goal of a Social Enterprise should be not to need to exist… after all, if their mission is to end a world problem, not existing means they’ve succeeded, yes?


Regretfully, this isn’t the case. But it could be. So many Social Enterprises are focussed on intervention; they rescue and save people after something has gone wrong in their life.

It’s a model that almost relies on problems to exist, so they can too. Now, don’t get me wrong, intervention-based socents, as our world problems stand right now, are vital to our welfare, and arguably, there are some problems we, as humans can never control, such as natural disasters. And yes, I do understand that some natural disasters are a direct link to climate change.

But, what if more was done on the prevention side?

In plain talk, what if we stopped the problem occurring in the first place?

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