If you are interested in the environment, sustainability or addressing social problems,\u00a0then the work of student organisation, Enactus may be worth looking at.<\/p>\n
Enactus is a worldwide organisation which uses entrepreneurial knowledge to help empower people to change their livelihoods in a sustainable way.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u00a0an international non-profit organisation, with over 70,000 students in 36 countries, working on nearly 5000 projects. It is aimed at university students by business leaders, in order to make a difference in the community while helping them develop skills to become socially responsible business leaders.<\/p>\n
Enactus Kent is a student led organisation, where students are encouraged to create and run their own volunteer projects.<\/p>\n
Enactus Kent aims to create projects that empower communities and improve livelihoods of people in need, such as Dave. Like over a thousand residents of Canterbury today, Dave was also homeless. Dave\u2019s living situation had seriously damaged his job prospects. Although this was a problem, we found that it could also be part of a solution.<\/p>\n
Enactus Kent\u00a0partnered with an NGO called Porchlight which provided Dave with a place to stay. Then, looking at tourism, one of Canterbury\u2019s most successful industries,\u00a0the Enactus Kent team\u00a0trained Dave and others like him to be tour guides and launched a tour company called MyStreets.<\/p>\n
Both\u00a0Enactus\u00a0Kent and Porchlight\u00a0thought Dave\u2019s story and his experience of the streets of Canterbury could set him apart from every other tour company in the city. And it did. Dave led tours and was then able to get work experience at the Canterbury Council.<\/p>\n
Like MyStreets,\u00a0all Enactus Kent\u00a0volunteering projects are\u00a0run like businesses. Enactus is built on the principle of sustainable change, reducing dependence on donations of money and time. That\u2019s why\u00a0involvement with Enactus\u00a0offers a large number of opportunities:\u00a0they are not asking you to donate your time to Enactus, but instead, to invest your time in it. Enactus Kent Vice-President and current\u00a0MA student, Jack Warner\u00a0comments:<\/p>\n
“As an Enactus volunteer, you can gain a host of skills that add value to your CV. You will\u00a0build your professional network by meeting entrepreneurs and business owners and\u00a0have access to exclusive training and networking events. We also attend career fairs with Enactus sponsors such as KPMG, EY, Unilever. All of this and you get to effect real change and address social problems.”<\/em><\/p>\n Get involved today! Join\u00a0Enactus Kent\u00a0by visiting www.enactuskent.org<\/a>\u00a0or find\u00a0them on:<\/p>\n Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/enactuskent<\/a><\/p>\n Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/enactus_kent\/<\/a><\/p>\n Twitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/enactuskent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are interested in the environment, sustainability or addressing social problems,\u00a0then the work of student organisation, Enactus may be worth looking at. Enactus is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139963,872],"tags":[210815,124,139996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}