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NOVEMBER ‘09
     
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SE in Focus    
FEATURE ARTICLE:    
VillageWorks in Cambodia

VILLAGEWORKS SONGKHEM COLLECTION
•• "When people buy in Singapore, life is improved in villages in Cambodia," said Susan Lee, who runs Beyond Imagination's retail outlet at the Girls' Brigade Headquarters in Singapore. Beyond Imagination (BI) is the sole distributor for VillageWorks products in Singapore. As a trustworthy middleman for the artisans in Cambodia, Girls Brigade hopes to begin a sustainable effort in improving the lives of the socially and economically disadvantaged in Cambodia.

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business • ecology • lifestyle  
Product Feature  
Gift And Take Elephant Soft Toy  

GIFT AND TAKE: RESTORING DIGNITY, REBUILDING LIVES
•• Gift and Take believes in creating a source of livelihood for the disadvantaged through building a market channel for the sale of handicrafts. Abroad, GAT has a rigorous social audit process to ensure that beneficiaries are not ‘sweat shops’ or unfairly treated; profits are also ploughed back in skills training and equipment such as sewing machines. Locally, GAT has job attachment programmes created specially for youths with special needs.

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KK Tse Chair of HK SE Forum

 

•• Mr K K Tse, Chair of the Hong Kong Social Entrepreneurship Forum, was in Singapore to attend the inaugural Social iCon 2009, a one-day conference organized by the Lien Centre for Social Innovation at the Singapore Management University.

SEforum caught up with Mr Tse to find out what he sees are the critical challenges for SE in the region and his vision for social entrepreneurship.

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