Education

Agua, Access and Academics: Lessons on high-quality H20

Essential to health, well-being, and improved performance, access to affordable purified water at school allows students to quench their thirst for education.Social Entrepreneur Corps and our sister organization Community Enterprise Solutions (CE Solutions) work with schools in the Dominican Republic to break down barriers to clean water while saving schools money. Growing out of project […]

By |March 22nd, 2015|Dominican Republic, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Agua, Access and Academics: Lessons on high-quality H20

Measuring Success with Miami University of Ohio

For a fun day outside, we led the sixteen Miami University (Ohio)  Social Entrepreneur Corps J-Term students, their three accompanying professors, and two grandparents on a “casual walk” up to the small mountain town of La Pista, where Miguel Brito, the President of Soluciones Comunitarias (SolCom) lives. After falling down mud hills, scrambling under barbed […]

By |January 27th, 2014|Guatemala|Comments Off on Measuring Success with Miami University of Ohio

Teach a Man to Fish

The ancient Chinese proverb says that if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.Well, the Chinese had the Social Entrepreneur Corps model down before way before we did. Let us explain…

Those words about fish were made a reality […]

By |January 24th, 2014|Guatemala|Comments Off on Teach a Man to Fish

Winter Break in the Dominican Republic

As our one week Social Entrepreneur Corps Winter Break Impact program in the Dominican Republic drew to a close at the end of last week, I found myself walking around Santo Domingo’s historic Colonial Zone with my colleague, Lia, and two of our Social Entrepreneur Corps interns, Helen and Silvia. Although the program had officially ended […]

By |January 21st, 2014|Dominican Republic|Comments Off on Winter Break in the Dominican Republic