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Social Business Challenge 2018

Social Business Challenge 2018 is going to be held on the 22nd of August 2018. The event is going to take at the capital of the nation Kathmandu starting from 11 A.M. The event is expected to last till 2 P.M.

The Social Business Challenge 2018 is an initiative of Yunus Social Business Centre Nepal, King’s College in collaboration with like-minded organizations promoting social entrepreneurship and job creation in Nepal to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Social Business Challenge was initiated in the year 2016 by King’s College and series of the workshop was facilitated throughout Nepal to build an understanding about the social entrepreneurship, venture creation and SDG’s. The targeted participants were the youths from cities from Biratnagar, Janakpur, Chitwan and Birgunj, Pokhara, Dharan and including Kathmandu Valley.

The main objective of the program Social Business Challenge 2018 is to develop the basic insights, understanding, and importance of establishing a social enterprise as one of the mechanism to solve the social economic inequality and to invite participants to ‘Social Business Challenge’ to design, present, and implement the most feasible venture idea to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The thematic areas for Social Business Challenge 2018 are ICT, Sustainable Tourism, Agriculture, Renewable, Energy and Environment, Education, Gender Equality, Water and Sanitation, and Health. You can fill-in for the event here. The price for the registration fees is NPR. 1500.

To build local partnership and facilitate the social change-making process through them has been a catalyst forces in driving sustainable and sustained support system for the local youths and institutions –Yunus Social Business Center, King’s College.

For more details about the Social Business Challenge 2018, you can visit their official Facebook page. Make sure to attend and support the event.