Success Stories
Youth Participation in UN-Habitat Urban Entrepreneurship Program
Mobile Movement fills a need that UN-HABITAT has identified: to connect young urban entrepreneurs with a community of professionals and microfinance donors. This project is designed to inspire young professionals in North America, and around the world, to explore how they can connect with youth from other countries, participate in community development and begin sharing their wealth of resources. By giving young social entrepreneurs in informal settlements the means to use mobile technology to support their own initiatives, network, and ultimately engage with young people around the world, we are bridging the gap between rich and poor through the transfer of technology, micro-funding, and knowledge. We are creating business partners and perhaps as significantly, we are creating new storytellers.
Mobile Movement is part of an historic retelling of the traditional story of the urban poor. To quote Barack Obama, "we put our hands, on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day."
Mobile Movement is mobile. It is a model of active philanthropy that can be expanded to any community where youth are engaged in social/economic entrepreneurship and supported by an NGO or Agency. There has never been a better time to invest in youth.
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