CE Solutions -"Changing Obstacles into Opportunities"

Our Social Impacts: Education

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire” - Yates

Summary: Community Enterprise Solutions innovates educational impact for children, youth, first-time women entrepreneurs, villagers, as well as US universities and university students.

Education

Computer Education: this is the number Guatemalan village children and youth who have had access to technology for the first time  and completed free computer and internet courses at the Centro Explrorativo in 2010 and 2011.

Social Innovation: Community Education

Youth Education

Childhood Education: this is the number of students enrolled in free  afterschool classes at the Centro Explorativo in 2011. They have learned about life skills, technology, music, math, health, the environment,  and more.

Social Innovation: Community Education

Entrepreneur Education

Entrepreneur Education: this is the number of first-time women entrepreneurs  in Guatemala, Ecuador, Nicaragua and South Africa who we have taught practical business skills, how to give eye exams, present solar solutions, explain the importance of purified water and more. They have become centers of knowledge in their communities and been empowered to spread that knowledge while earning incomes for their families.

Social Innovation: The MicroConsignment Model (MCM)

Social Entrepreneurship Education

Social Entrepreneurship Education: this is the number of university students and recent graduates who, through our sister organization Social Entrepreneur Corps, have learned through hands-on experience how to engage with communities to create impact in the developing world. The learn whilst providing critical support to CE Solutions social innovations.

Social Innovation: The MicroConsignment Model (MCM), Community Education, Community Tourism

Greg Van Kirk

MicroConsignment Model Knowledge Dissemination: this is the number of universities where Greg Van Kirk has taught classes, given speeches or served on panels speaking about the need for and impact of the MicroConsignment Model  over the past year.

Social Innovation: The MicroConsignment Model (MCM)

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