Hollie Bentley is a Kent Business School student with ambition. Aside from studying for her Business Administration degree, and working at Mungo’s Bistro on the Canterbury Campus, Hollie is a committee member for Enactus, a student-led community action group. In her blog post, Hollie tells us more about Enactus and its objectives, and invites you to join Enactus Kent on their latest venture.<\/p>\n
Enactus Kent<\/a> is a student-led organisation, which aims to use entrepreneurial action to empower communities and people in need to improve their livelihoods in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable way. We are part of a worldwide organisation, with our parent branch, Enactus UK, located in London. Currently, Enactus has over 70,000 students, spread across 36 countries, working on nearly 5000 projects each year. That\u2019s over 5 million volunteer hours, impacting the lives of nearly 2 million people.<\/p>\n Enactus is an international, non-profit organisation aimed at university students by business and higher-educational leaders, in order to make a difference in the community while developing the skills to become socially responsible business leaders. At Enactus Kent, we see opportunity to rethink and redevelop. Bringing students, academic leaders and businesses together, in order to shape a bigger, brighter and sustainable future. So whether you are into design, economics, law, science, engineering or psychology, we believe that there is an entrepreneur spirit in all of us, ready to take action.<\/p>\n While working with multinationals including Amazon<\/a>, Ford<\/a>, KPMG<\/a>, Tesco<\/a>, Santander <\/a>and many more, we take this opportunity to make a difference in the world. Currently we are trying to reduce the isolation among the elderly community in Peru through the honey and soap enterprise, our international venture; Project Cantuta. We also work to empower the homeless in Canterbury by training them to serve as tour guides through our local project; MyStreets. Furthermore, we plan to be working towards empowering women in India by establishing a female taxi initiative through our new enterprise, Project Badlaav.<\/p>\n At Enactus Kent we are currently recruiting for students to join our nationals competition team.<\/p>\n This is our\u00a0opportunity to showcase all the outstanding work\u00a0in front of a large audience, which includes business advisors from companies like Asda<\/a>, Unilever <\/a>and Brambles <\/a>as well as professional judges and academics. Enactus Kent<\/a> need a team to present, a team to create an annual report and a media team to help with creating a promotional video:<\/p>\n Presenters:<\/strong> We are currently recruiting for five presenters. You will be responsible for writing the script along with the support of your committee members. You will serve as the face of Enactus Kent during the regionals, nationals and the final rounds of the competition.<\/p>\n Annual Report:<\/strong> You will be in charge of creating the annual report, A4 (4-sided) document, that encompasses all the information about our projects, finances, support network.<\/p>\n Media (Presentation Team)<\/strong>: You will create presentation materials to accompany the script, including a video.<\/p>\n Please express your interest by emailing\u00a0recruitment@enactuskent.com<\/a>Join Enactus Kent<\/h2>\n
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