Summary
SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) is a university-based, non-profit organisation spanning 47 countries.By working in partnership with businesses and universities, student teams, like Cambridge's, create and run projects that help members of the community increase their economic potential.
Description
Current projects include:
* Aspire: mentoring refugees and asylum seekers in Cambridge, helping them improve their English and settle into life in the UK
* Pato: supporting entrepreneurs in Kenya, imprvoing quality of life and enabling communities to lift themselves out of poverty
* Sri Lankan Cards Project: helping rural Sri Lankan market their handmade cards in the UK, promoting microenterprise as a means out of the poverty cycle
* WinterWillow: assisting in the startup of a Cambridge-based social enterprise employing the homeless in a business that creates eco-friendly willow products
* Take the Leap: working with local sixth for colleges to promote business and enterprise education through day-long workshops
* Foyer: equipping vulnerable young people with the tools they need to integrate with society and improve their lives. Last year, this involved supporting youths at Foyer Peterborough as they fundraised for and constructed a community garden.
New projects starting up this year include:
* Beginspace: providing business support and assisting the operation of a social enterprise incubation centre
* Anoushka Bespoke Dressmaking: a business run entirely by Cambridge students that employs seamstresses in low-income communities to create made-to-measure special occasion wear (just in time for the May Ball season)
* 209radio lottery: supporting a local community radio station as they seek to expand a charity lottery scheme to cover radio operating costs whilst also donating money to local charities and other third sector organisations
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