Chapter 4, Problem 1DQ

Summary Introduction

Case summary:

B College is commenced almost 50 years ago and it ensures its operations to a lot of villages across the world with a mission to improve rural lives and communities through learning-by-doing training programs in health care, women’s empowerment, solar energy, water, and land development that are designed and built by and for the poor. The idea is based or got from M and it brings light to almost half a million peoples and provides clean water and solar energy for cooking and heating thousands of communities. The four building blocks of B College is “enhance, enable, engage and establish”.

Each woman is trained for 6 months’ solar energy program and grand fellowship and got a stipend for commencing their own business. The concept of this college is adopted from Person S a rich man changes his lifestyle to decrease his living expenses by $1 per day. A young social worker commenced this college and he calls “the only college where the teacher is a learner and the learner is a teacher”. Person R aims to triple the number of peoples trained and to reach 6 million by 2018, by increasing the number of training centres and introduce more technical aids for teaching. This plan needs an approximate $11million and he hopes to raise it from corporate partners.

To discuss: The manner in which the Person X thinks College B’s mission and goals are characteristic of a sustainable enterprise.